Aarey road repair work causing pollution, traffic

Repairs to the newly concretised Aarey Milk Colony Road are once again inconveniencing commuters who use it to travel between Goregaon and the eastern suburbs.

- Sabah Virani

MUMBAI: Repairs to the newly concretised Aarey Milk Colony Road are once again inconveniencing commuters who use it to travel between Goregaon and the eastern suburbs. Apart from congestion, residents have complained that repair work is also causing a lot of dust pollution.

Not long ago, commuters had to take a diversion due to road concretisation work, which began after COVID-19 and was completed only in 2024. Now, they have to endure a two-way road being squeezed into one lane at around 10 spots.

Gregory Malavani, a Malad resident who travels to SEEPZ daily for work, described the situation in the rush hours. "There is a lot of traffic, and the spots that are dug up cause a lot of backlogs in traffic," he said. "When buses come, they must take a turn around the barricades, and this causes a lot of issues. And this keeps on happening every week. New spots are dug up on the concretised road for the so-called repairs. There are at least seven such spots in the 1km stretch from Modern Bakery bus station till Aarey Hospital."

Malavani said that eight to 10 spots on the road were dug up in the last week alone, a few of them as recently as Friday.