Road, rail, air traffic hit as heavy rain lashes Mumbai

MUMBAI: Heavy rain continued to lash the city and the suburbs on Monday, affecting road, rail and air traffic even as the weather bureau predicted intermittent rainfall with the possibility of few heavy showers during the day.
    
Trains on the Western lines are running 20 to 30 minutes late, while on Harbour and main Central routes, trains were running 10 to 15 minutes late due to water-logging at Matunga, Dadar and Mahalaxmi stations.
    
According to the traffic police, traffic was moving slowly on various routes due to potholes but there was no water-logging on main routes.
    
Air traffic was also affected with flights operating behind schedule due to poor visibility.

 

"The delay is only due to poor visibility and there is no water-logging on runways," airport sources said.

 

Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh visited some low-lying areas that were hit during Sunday's heavy rain in the western suburbs.
    
The total rainfall during the last 24 hours till 8.30 am on Monday was 191.6 mm at Colaba in southern Mumbai and 224.2mm at Santa Cruz in the suburbs, the weather bureau said.
    
About 40 trees were uprooted since Sunday due to wind reaching the speed of 60 kmph, the fire brigade said.