More on the Peddar Road flyover.
A column (registration required) in the Hindustan Times by Sujata Anandan, who grew up in Peddar Road, says 'There’s dust in the voice of the Nightingale'.
'And bottleneck it really is. Over the past few years I have discovered that there is no way you can beat the Peddar Road traffic to and from South Bombay. I have often swished through town from the inner roads in minutes and then had to spend an hour or more from the Haji Ali junction upto Marine Drive (and vice versa) because the traffic simply refuses to move except at snail's pace on this route,' she says.
'In any case she seems to have cottoned on to how she is being set up for scapegoat by her neighbours. But what about the other handful or two of self-centred citizens who believe they can stop the march of a city because they live at a more fashionable address than the residents of Mohammad Ali Road? Their short-sightedness only proves that the so-called lesser citizens under the JJ flyover were not asking what the country could do for them but what they could do for the country. So who is the more exemplary citizen?,' she concludes.
DNA has a story on how Lata is stung by the negative publicity and how some residents of Peddar Road are now backing the flyover.
Good on them.