India, June 4 -- With pre-monsoon showers lashing the city on Wednesday, the Andheri subway had to be shut for nearly an hour in the morning owing to waterlogging, raising questions about the city's monsoon preparedness and flood mitigation measures.

Between 7am and 8am on Wednesday, the western suburbs received 9.84mm rainfall; most of it was concentrated in the K/West, which recorded 45.6mm rainfall. Waterlogging was reported from 7.15am onwards at several locations near the Andheri subway, such as SV Road, Vakola and Link Road, leading to the subway being closed to traffic from 7.40am till 8.24am.

Local residents and opposition leaders including Varsha Gaikwad and Sachin Sawant from the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aditya Thacker...