skywalk / parking infrastructure ?

This is just another example of politically driven useless development in the city which is obviously myopic.

These sky walks reduce the cross section of available road width, freeing up a lane in the centre of the busiest roads in the city. In a bid to remove people off these arterial roads leading to and fro railway stations, they lead to banalisation of the informal architecture and the street that once was.

Now, when i walk down Vile Parle station road, it is nothing but heartache. A memory of the glorious market that once was. Hovering over it is even more painful, as i can see the beautiful bungalows that once lined the market street with fountains and stain glass windows, make way for malls.

These sky walks should be re-looked at as parking / market infrastructure, and integrated into the informal fabric of station precincts all around the city, because, that is the purpose they are serving now, with more people below it, and cars parked in between over designed sections and heavy piers which stand on the space once occupied by autos.

Its useless suregery performed in a desperate attempt to keep the flesh of the city from falling apart.