Residents, activists and school students will take part in the protest on SV Road on August 11 to ask for an underground metro line. Experts and residents had proposed an underground line to avoid running over existing structures and causing more traffic congestion. Anandini Thakoor, trustee of Bandra (West) Federation, said, “It has to be an underground metro or no metro. HT had reported last month that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) had finished the tendering process for the 23.5km metro line and could not adopt any suggestions now. Ashish Shelar , Bandra MLA and chief of BJP’s Mumbai unit, said, “We will make sure schools are not affected while constructing the metro line.

Source: Hindustan Times August 06, 2017 18:22 UTC