Overview

• MMRDA barricaded both ends and began dismantling the approach ramps around 10 pm Friday under a heavy police deployment.
• Mumbai Traffic Police rolled out diversions, timed one‑way movement on Currey Road Bridge, extensive no‑parking zones, and stationed two ambulances with wheelchairs near Parel and Prabhadevi stations.
• Demolition above the Central and Western Railway lines will proceed after MRIDC secures rail blocks and settles way‑leave charges with the Railways.
• A 132‑metre double‑decker replacement is planned—lower deck 2+2 lanes with a footpath and upper deck 2+2 lanes feeding the Sewri–Worli Elevated Connector—with construction targeted to take about 18 months.
• Relocation to nearby MHADA flats has been offered to 83 families from Haji Noorani Chawl and Laxmi Niwas after a redesign that spared 17 of 19 buildings, though affected residents continue to raise concerns.