With no customers to cater to, Jugar Kanchwala literally spends all day staring at this barricade. Pics/Pradeep Dhivar

The walls are closing in on shopkeepers in the once-busy Dadar-Mahim belt, where their business has now come down by 50-80% ever since work for Metro III began. Barricades have been erected barely eight feet away from their shops, blocking them from customers' view and access.