Local residents say that the station is jam-packed during morning peak hours and it becomes difficult to board a train because there are too many people.
Mumbra commuters on the Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus-Kalyan line want more trains. Local residents say that the station is jam-packed during morning peak hours and it becomes difficult to board a train because there are too many people at the Mumbra station.
Zubair Sayyed, a regular commuter, has written to DNA saying that there is a train every 10 minutes and it is a problem getting in during the mornings.
“It is very difficult to board a train from Mumbra, especially between 8.45am and 10am. There are trains coming every 10 minutes after 8.45am. Trains coming from Kalyan and Dombivli are always packed,” said Sayyed.
‘’The railways must be earning a lot of revenue from this station and it is time for them to upgrade facilities and increase the frequency of trains,’’ he said.
Railway officials said operation-wise, smaller stations like Mumbra and Kalwa are in the way of the slow trains corridor and it is difficult to start services from these stations as there are no originating or terminating facilities there.
Sayed said commuters of Mumbra want two to three trains to be started from Mumbra or Diva station.
“We are developing one more corridor (two lines) along the existing slow line corridor. The tendering process has already begun and work shall begin soon. Once we have four lines here, there could be an increase in services as the outstation trains will be completely segregated from the suburban corridor between Kurla to Kalyan,” a senior official said.
“There is a need for more trains between Kalyan and Thane, Kasara and Thane, and Karjat and Thane during morning peak hours so that the crowds recede,’’ Sayed added.
A senior official of the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation said, ‘’The new corridor that will bypass Mumbra is being planned as part of the Thane-Diva fifth and sixth rail lines project under phase two of the Mumbai urban transport project. As a part of the project, the railways will have to bore tunnels into the Parsik Hill.”
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