As the curtains get ready to come down on 2024, Colaba residents are looking towards welcoming a clean Colaba Causeway in 2025. A group of locals met at a park opposite the Garden hotel in Colaba on Sunday, December 15, morning to chart out the road ahead to remove hawkers from the Causeway to another location and leave the space open for walking. Though residents seemed determined to see this happen by next year, some context is important to explain a festering problem.

The hawkers on one side of the footpath at Causeway have almost obliterated walking space. For years now, there have been certain so-called ‘solutions’ being touted about where to move these hawkers. One of these proposals is to shift all hawkers from the Causeway to the wide pavement outside the museum.