Year after year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation issues the same warning: “Don’t stop, don’t dance on bridges” for Ganesha processions on old rail overbridges (ROBs). In a new statement, the BMC announced a list of 13 dangerous bridges, four on the Central Railway (CR) and nine on the Western Railway (WR).

The guidelines were first issued in 2019, a year before the pandemic, after the inspection of age-old ROBs. The collapse of the Gokhale bridge in Andheri and the Himalaya foot overbridge (FOB) at CSMT prompted authorities to check the status of the other ROBs and FOBs in 2019. However, most have still not gone under reconstruction.