Mumbai Roads And Footpath News

Mumbai Coastal road accident: 3 dead On September 20, 2026, at around 5:03am, a black BMW motor car bearing registration number DD 01 C 6302 was travelling from Marine Drive towards Haji Ali. When it reached the Coastal Road near Lala Lajpatrai College and Lotus Jetty, the car, while travelling on the northbound carriageway, fell from the edge of a Coastal Road bridge onto an area where car parking work was underway. Officers and personnel from Tardeo Police Station are present at the scene.

BMC on Saturday completed repairs to the leakage in its 3,000-mm-diameter Mumbai-III water main near Teen Hath Naka in Thane, with water supply to Mumbai city and the eastern suburbs expected to be restored in phases from 9pm. The repair work was completed at 5pm after civic engineers and staff worked through the day to address the leak in the major water pipeline. The leakage was first detected on Thursday night. BMC officials initially plugged the hole using a wooden stopper to contain the leak. The area around the damaged section was subsequently excavated, and accumulated water was pumped out to expose and dry the affected portion. The civic body had planned to permanently repair the damaged section by installing a mild steel (MS) patch plate and welding it in place. However, the pipeline developed another leak on Saturday, and the high water pressure hampered repair operations, affecting water supply to Mumbai city and the eastern suburbs. BMC coordinated with the Pise Pumping Station and Panjarapur Water Treatment Plant to control the water flow and safely carry out repairs to the pressurised pipeline. According to the civic body, once the pipeline is recharged and pressurised, water supply will be restored in a phased manner from 9pm.

BMC has launched its ‘Pedestrian First’ campaign in Mumbai to remove illegal hawkers and encroachments from footpaths, beginning with 320 km in the first phase. Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide today inspected the drive in K West (Andheri west) and P South (Goregaon) wards, with priority given to the busy SV Road–Ram Ganesh Gadkari Marg stretch leading to Cooper Hospital due to heavy pedestrian and ambulance movement.

The BMC inquiry committee into the Chembur tree crash incident, has recommended penalties totalling Rs 7 lakh against the contractor and consultant associated with storm-water drain works near the Peepal tree that uprooted and fell on a school bus in Chembur on June 30, killing an 11-year-old Vihaan Srivastav, while absolving the civic body’s roads and gardens departments of prima facie negligence.