After Municipal Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi defended the Aarey car depot as the only viable option as against a depot at Kanjurmarg which would cost R5,000 crore more, activists have questioned the government’s reluctance to spend the excess amount.
Why not spend on the project to help 16 lakh people who would travel via Metro III every day instead of spending on the Coastal Road which will hardly serve one lakh citizens per day and cost much more, activists argued.

Pardeshi, on Thursday, also said that the land at Kanjurmarg was under litigation and an excess amount of R5,000 crore would be required just to shift the depot from Aarey.