No one who has read this column before can accuse me of not being a huge supporter of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). I can’t tell you exactly what they do (despite the many accomplishments to be found on their website after one scrolls past a photograph of the Commissioner), but a section on ‘plans’ has a long list of ‘development plans’ which can only be a good thing for everyone. There don’t seem to be too many of these plans made after 2019, but that is probably because the person tasked with updating the website has been forced to fight trolls on Instagram or Twitter.

As a firm believer in the intelligence that drives every decision made by the MMRDA when it comes to turning Bombay into a world-class city, I have always looked at everything they do with fondness and appreciation. This is why the jokes about a recent flyover built by them annoyed me. Citizens from across Bombay and outside joined in to condemn the abrupt turning of a four-lane flyover into a two-lane one. There was an attempt made to explain the rationale behind this design, but it was quickly buried under memes about incompetence, which compelled me to address the episode.