The legendary Lata Mangeshkar does not want a flyover near her home in Peddar Road.
She says she will quit Mumbai if the flyover is built. But Peddar Road is on the main artery leading to town and something needs to be done to ease congestion there. Many readers of Mumbai Mirror are not too pleased with Lata's protest.
Engineers at the IIT say that the Worli-Nariman Point sealink is a better solution than the flyover. Problem is that is still some years away.
Solution: If like me you live in the suburbs, don’t go to town.
Flyover blues
Posted in Mumbai.
– March 27, 2006
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I get this sneaky feeling all that the Mangeshkar Queen Bee is concerned
about is to play her own music against the cacophony of the world at
large.
It is interesting to observe if this is a societal or a personal concern. As I
am not native to Mumbai, I would not know of the gravity of the
situation, but it clearly smacks of “checkmating by clout.” I am assuming
here that this flyover would ease traffic greatly, and the Mangeshkar
sisters, by being vocal only about their vocal cords, are hindering
progress.
It is a “greater good” situation. Lata Mangeshkar is free to locate to
more sylvan environs if she faces threat from extraneous factors. But,
the future of the city and millions of denizens cannot be compromised
upon. The common Indians always runs the risk of deifying celebrities
and public figures, and the “bling-blingers” use this phenomenon to their
advantage.