Four years after a footpath of the Gokhale Road bridge collapsed on a running train, shutting it down partially, the BMC announced that the structure of the bridge was dangerous and it needed to be demolished as per the structural audit report. The process of shutting down the Andheri bridge will begin next week. In a gross example of poor planning, two new connecting bridges which are ready to be opened on either side of the bridge as approaches, have now been rendered useless. When mid-day visited the site on Thursday, we saw the two new connecting bridges on either side of the Gokhale Road bridge built as approaches rendered useless now, since the main east-west bridge is to be shut.

The ready Barfiwala flyover from Juhu side, which also lands at the dilapidated bridge