This past monsoon was the first that Mumbai experienced in full normalcy after the pandemic, and citizens saw all the infrastructure woes that plague this city bubble up to the surface with a vengeance. While flooding was mitigated to a fair degree, the plight of the roads had deteriorated to a level probably not seen in a decade.

The worst was the closure of the crucial east-west connector in bustling Andheri—the Gokhale Road bridge—in October. A part of the bridge had crashed in 2018, killing two people.