MUMBAI: Less than a month after the city’s first melody road was inaugurated the BMC has decided to check the decibel levels of the noise coming off it at the nearest residential building in the vicinity. This comes after residents from Breach Candy wrote to Municipal Commissioner, raising strong objections to the music being played along the northbound stretch of the city’s Coastal Road, which cuts through residential neighbourhoods. A BMC official said, “The contractor has been asked to measure the decibel levels at the nearest building. Apart from it we are also trying to see if there are ways to reduce the sound as currently a motorists passing on it in a speed to 60-80 kmph can hear the music.”Breach Candy resident Kavita Chawla who lives in a housing society facing the music road said, on March 6 our local resident group sent a reminder to the BMC to look into the music road that was disturbing residents in the area. “The noise coming out of the road is very disturbing at it’s difficult to sleep peacefully at night as the noise from the road echos into the household,” she said.The musical road begins after motorists exit the underground tunnel at Breach Candy. There are special grooves that have been laid over a 500-metre stretch on the first lane next to the divider. When vehicles travel over these grooves at a speed of 70-80 kmph, the tune of ‘Jai Ho’ from the film Slumdog Millionaire can be heard inside the vehicle.
