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Late on Wednesday night, a speeding BEST bus crushed a 50-year-old man to death on the Western Express Highway near Jogeshwari. An angry mob of nearly 1,200 people blocked the highway and SV Road causing a traffic jam up to Santa Cruz till late in the night. The furious mob pelted stones at police personnel, when they tried to stop the agitation. There were also demands that the Shankerwadi subway near the place of incident be opened for public use with immediate effect.

MMRDA say “There were several proposals to construct subways at various sites on both the highways but public resentment to use the stepped subways has prevented them from materialising. This is also the problem with construction of foot over bridges."

IMO: Road safety is paramount. But there are frequently long delays when you have to wait, which encourages people not to wait and risk it. And sometimes you never seem to find a gap in traffic. The mob are right, insofar as there should be more subways and bridges and if there were, people would hopefully use them more. This would help drivers too as while they are usually not hurt in such cases, they certainly don't want the possible results of accidents. But even potholes in Mumbai are not filled in though the court has ordered them to be.