By creating paid, multi-level parking at bus-stations, the BEST would speed up traffic movement and clear pavements for pedestrians while earning additional revenue. It can also increase income by offering maintenance facilities to private vehicles.

The response to the BEST proposal on various e-groups suggests that there is a lot of outrage about its plans, but unless people wake up and turn into vigilantes the process of transferring public wealth into private hands will continue unchecked with no addition to basic amenities or revenue accretion to the exchequer. There are already rumours that the government is quietly working at selling off the Worli Dairy which occupies an extremely valuable sea-front property in mid-Mumbai.