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MUMBAI: With festivities over, the BMC is all set to choke Mumbai's roads some more as it will take up repair works for 150 roads. "This would help to ensure that the surface in not disturbed repeatedly," said a senior BMC official. "Metro works are underway on all major corridors and therefore, getting permissions for road repairs on the same stretch has become difficult. Out of the total 1,941km of road length in Mumbai, around 500km is dug up to lay utility lines. Work is already underway on 200 roads.Officials from the roads department said that they have been finding it difficult to get traffic police permissions to undertake road works because of Metro construction..