Every day many Mumbaikars experience the annoying wait inside a taxi or an auto caught in a traffic jam — you aren’t going anywhere, but the meter keeps moving up. Now compare this to the delayed infrastructure projects in the city. Not only do they inconvenience people and hold up important transitions, the burden on the exchequer becomes greater with every passing day.u00a0

Running on fumes: Cost of repairs and renovation of three floors of Mantralaya, which were engulfed in a massive fire on June 21, went up fromu00a0Rs 81.64 crore approved by the state cabinet in August, to Rs 110 crore when bids were called. But the lowest bid received for the project was foru00a0Rs 163 crore. File pic