India, Sept. 6 -- For over two months, daily commuters at Aarey metro station in Goregaon East have been grappling with an odd inconvenience: a brand-new foot overbridge (FOB), constructed to give them direct access across the Western Express Highway, remains locked.

As a result, passengers exiting the station must walk nearly 50 metres along the road and climb another pedestrian bridge maintained by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). "All this jugglery even after infrastructure is ready," commuter Rahul Kumar Jha vented on X, pointing out that the bridge was originally expected to be inaugurated on August 15.

Aarey metro station, which falls on Metro Line 7 (Gundavali-Dahisar East), already has a civic-maintained FOB for ped...