After mid-day`s report on the `too` smooth Gorai jetty road that was causing vehicles to skid, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) literally scrapped some of its surface to make it safer. On Tuesday it sent a milling machine to scrape the surface in some patches to make the road rough. Many local residents had complained that the newly built road posed a risk to motorists as vehicles kept skidding on it.

The brand new road connects the Gorai jetty to T junction. The two-km stretch was constructed with mastic asphalt and opened to the public last month. “The vehicles kept skidding and there were several accidents. Fortunately, there was no serious injury reported. We complained to the BMC but no one was looking at it seriously. Another vehicle skid on Monday morning,” said Godfrey Pimenta, an activist.