Tired of the constantly changing deadlines, residents of Andheri have written a letter to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner on Tuesday, urging the fixing of a day-to-day timeline and sharing it with the public. In the letter, residents claim that the BMC has taken six months to assemble and place a bridge that could otherwise be completed within two months, displaying a lax attitude towards its completion. Despite the BMC`s assurance that the second phase, allowing buses to ply, will be completed before the monsoon, residents mentioned in the letter that the girders for the same phase haven`t arrived at the site yet.

The BMC has provided several deadlines, starting from May 2023, to complete one lane of the bridge. Recently, the corporation set another deadline to complete one lane by the end of February 2024. In the letter signed by residents, they have requested Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal to treat the reopening of the bridge with a war-room-type crisis-resolution focus.