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Bombay High Court asks for easing rush on locals, cites wedding woes

The Bombay High Court, while commenting on overcrowding on trains, on Thursday said, “Around 80 lakh passengers travel daily by the suburban railways.

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The Bombay High Court, while commenting on overcrowding on trains, on Thursday said, “Around 80 lakh passengers travel daily by the suburban railways. This could equal the average population of a European country. It was also observed that while Mumbai is the country’s financial capital, a girl residing along the Western Railway line is hesitant to marry a potential groom living along the Central line, due to overcrowding on trains.”

A division bench of justices VM Kanade and Nutan Sardessai, while hearing a suo motu public interest litigation taken up after activist Sameer Zaveri wrote a letter to the High Court highlighting the problem of overcrowding in trains, said, “It’s impossible to get into trains after Borivli. How people manage to travel on crowded trains is quite surprising.”

The court directed Western Railway officials to experiment with a circular timetable for Virar-bound trains to ease overcrowding during peak hours. According to the circular, Virar trains from Churchgate will not stop at Bandra, till Dahisar, and will be followed by a Bhayander-bound train, and then a Borivli train.

Western Railway officials told the court that it would not be possible for them to start a train service from Churchgate to Thane, as there was no space to lay tracks between the two lines. Moreover, it would not be possible for them to acquire land between Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and Parel. Central Railway officials told the court that by next year, train services between CST to Andheri will be extended till Goregaon station on the Harbour line. 

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