Almost after a year since repair work started, Andheri's Gokhale Bridge was fully opened to the public on Sunday morning. The work, which started in July last year after the cantilever footpath on the southern end of the bridge collapsed, was carried out at a cost of R3.34 crore. Soon after the incident, Western Railway (WR) had undertaken a safety audit of the bridge with help from IIT-Bombay, following which major repair and strengthening works had been identified.

Chief public relations officer of Western Railway, Ravinder Bhakar, said, "The process involved dismantling of the 3.3-metre-wide old cantilever slabs on both the northern and southern end of the bridge, replacing the corroded steel brackets supporting the slabs, casting new slabs and crash barrier and putting up a stainless steel fencing."