Friday, October 10, 2008

Local trains in Mumbai!!

Local train station.

Commuters of Mumbai local trains crossover from one train to another in Mumbai. Every year hundreds of passengers are killed or maimed while crossing the tracks.


Wikipedia describes Mumbai's surburban railways:

Mumbai's suburban railway is the densest route in the world. It is approximately a little more than 50,000 passengers per kilometer, transporting 65 lakh (6.5 million) commuters daily. This has resulted in severe overloading in the trains which carry 5000 commuters per 9 car train which are designed to carry less than a third of that amount. The density of passengers in peak hours is as high as 15 people per sq metre.



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