After years of being a traffic choke point, the stretch over Agripada Subway of the Western Express Highway (WEH) has been widened, with the BMC adding one lane each to the northbound and southbound stretch. The move aims to ease congestion that worsened after the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road extension opened to traffic.

The 1.5-km stretch from the SCLR landing arm had routinely seen hour-long traffic snarls. mid-day spoke to locals and commuters to assess the impact of the widening.