It is not just the footbridge collapse that makes one wonder why we continue not to learn from our past tragedies. A heartrending report in this paper stated how a 28-year-old marketing executive in a private firm lost his life to what locals stated was the indifference of Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC) to their complaints, regarding dangerous, dead trees.

The young man succumbed to the injuries he received a week earlier when a tree branch fell on his head near Vasant Nagri township of Vasai East. He was returning on his two-wheeler after meeting his friend in Nalasopara when the branch fell on him. Though he was taken to hospital, he died at the facility one week later.