A directly elected mayor with more power should be appointed in Mumbai. Quick decisions about the city’s development can be taken only when you invest complete authority on one person or agency. A directly elected mayor would be perfect for a city like this, where there are multiple agencies delaying the decision-making process - Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London. He became the Mayor on the creation of the post in 2000 and was re-elected in June 2004

Workers fix fancy signs and work on new-age lifts for the physically challenged in a subway outside the glitzy, new Metro Adlabs Cinema at Marine Lines in Mumbai’s old colonial heart. Outside, evening filmgoers struggle across the street as car-horns blare at them and drivers play a dangerous avoid-the-pedestrian game. It will be another month before pedestrians can take the subway. But what’s another month when you’ve waited five years?

This Rs 19-crore subway is part of the officiously called Pedestrian Grade Separation Scheme. Launched in 2002, the scheme aimed to make it safer — and easier — to cross streets, through a series of 27 subways and foot overbridges.

Ketaki Ghoge tells us more...