The much delayed widening of Lal Bahadur Shashtri (LBS) Marg at the Sion Station end has begun with demolition of structures that were creating a bottleneck situation, after the City Civil Court dismissed a plea of project-affected people on March 2.

Judge SG Shaikh disposed of a suit filed by 10 PAP seeking to stay the notice for demolition by the BMC, which had identified structures that were coming in the way of the widening project. Earlier, the plaintiffs had obtained the order of ad-interim injunction. The BMC had initiated the project in 2017 and made a budgetary provision as well.