Viren Shah, president Federation of Retail Traders Welfare Association (FRTWA) and Worli resident sent an email dated December 1, to the joint commissioner of police (traffic) alerting him to cars racing down a stretch of the Coastal Road near his home, creating a deafening ruckus. Shah said, “This is not regular traffic noise. This is the noise from race cars being driven on that stretch.”

His email stated, “The new Coastal Road is right in front of my building in Worli. I have noticed that on many nights, from 10 pm to 12 am, there are racing cars with huge noise of mufflers (through loud exhausts) that are zooming by post 10 pm. It is very noisy and extremely disturbing to residents living very close to this Coastal Road. I understand that such a loud noise created specifically through such modified mufflers, creating noise pollution/nuisance is not allowed.”