Despite the chief minister's promise to make Mumbai pothole-free in two years and the BMC’s claim last September that there would be no craters after concretising streets within two and a half years, the speed at which road work is unfolding tells another story. Of the 265 km of road work that was taken up last January, only 57 km of streets was concretised by the end of January 2023. 

Of 2,050 km roads in the city, 990 km are already concretised. The work to concretise 210 km of roads—265 km, including side strips—has started. The tendering process of 397 km has been completed and the process of the remaining 423 km will start soon.