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THE BRIHANMUMBAI Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to start a toll-free number, WhatsApp number and an email id for registering complaints of abandoned vehicles along roads and streets. The Bombay High Court directed the civic body to deal with such complaints through a toll-free number, WhatsApp number and email id following a PIL demanding a mechanism to remove abandoned vehicles lying on the roadside for years. AdvertisingThe civic body has decided to act on numerous complaints of traffic pile-ups caused by these vehicles. The project will cost the civic body Rs 4.8 lakh for a year. Abandoned vehicles on the roadside act as encroachments causing traffic jams on already narrow stretches..