A while after this paper wrote about work starting on the stretch on Hughes Road that leads to Babulnath, there has been substantial response to SoBo’s top concern about repairs to the important road. The road is a lifeline connecting Peddar Road, Kemps Corner and Breach Candy to further south.

Readers will recall that last year, the Peddar Road and Hughes Road stretch was devastated by a landslide in August, triggered by heavy rain. In September the same year, as an unflagging monsoon compounded challenges for Mumbaikars, there was a mudslide and mud poured down from Doongerwadi above, affecting Hughes Road below as gigantic trees keeled over, smashing the retaining wall.