Residents along the Link Road stretch between Andheri and Dahisar will be forgiven for forgetting what a footpath looks like. Most are forced to walk on the roads, dodging high-speed traffic, thanks to the majority of footpaths here being encroached by showroom cars, bikes, autos and taxis.

Where did the footpaths go? That's the question that has residents along the stretch between Andheri and Dahisar link road in the western suburbs scratching their heads. Most footpaths here have been swallowed up by car showrooms trying to guarantee maximum visibility of their high-end products, rules be damned, or, under haphazardly parked cars, bikes and auto-rickshaws. That the traffic situation here is straight out of hell, is an understatement. Pedestrians here truly have nowhere to walk and complaints to officials mostly fall on deaf ears, they say.