MMRDA has started work on dismantling cycle tracks in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), a report in this paper stated. The reason given is to ease traffic movement in the busy office area. The 13-km stretch of cycle tracks, built at a cost of Rs 6.5 crore, was introduced in 2011. They were barely used for the purpose they were built. Yet, in 2021, the tracks were refurbished at a cost of Rs 6.25 crore.

These ‘refurbished’ tracks were once again used for parking cars and other vehicles. Cyclists have almost never used the inconvenient tracks, disparagingly calling them ‘art installations.’ And, now, the government has decided these tracks must finally go and will be spending Rs 25 crore to remove them.

It is interesting to note the alacrity with which the government sinks public money into building useless infrastructure and then spends some more demolishing it.