At least 15 of the 16 decades-old shops in the middle of S V Road bridge in Malad, were finally removed on Wednesday by the BMC. Work on the dilapidated part of the bridge started simultaneously. But shop owners eligible for compensation claim they haven’t received it so far. One shop owner filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against the eviction and his shop was spared. 

mid-day, in a series of reports from November 2022, had highlighted the issue of structures creating a bottleneck to the new lanes of the bridge and that vehicles were plying on the old, dilapidated structure of the bridge. The bridge was declared dilapidated in 2019 after the structural audit report and the construction of two new lanes on either side of the old bridge was completed around June 2022. But as the structures were not removed, the lanes were not opened and heavy traffic continued on the dilapidated part.