India, Oct. 14 -- With their pleas to shift the wholesale fish market from Senapati Bapat Marg falling on deaf ears, nearly 350 families residing in the Swarajya Cooperative Housing Society (CHS) in Dadar on Monday wrote to the municipal commissioner Bhushan Gagrani. The closure of the Elphinstone bridge on September 12 had worsened the traffic situation in the area, posing hurdles in the daily activities of locals, the housing society said in the letter, and warned they would file a public interest litigation if no action was taken in 15 days.

"Every morning, when we go to drop our children to school, a two-minute journey takes 15 minutes," said Dashrath Dongre, a Swarajya CHS resident. "The fish vendors have their vans parked on the ro...