The city of Mumbai is almost synonymous with its train network, the backbone of its bustling public life. Mumbai’s suburban trains are said to be the most efficient railway systems in the world. Its eminence & growing dependency has belittled the high price of human lives, the city is paying. In 2002, the Mumbai suburban railway system claimed 3773 lives, injuring 3,297 from the total 7070 accident cases. This means a death every 2.5 hours due to a railway accident in Mumbai, which is probably the highest in the world! Mumbai’s bombarding train-passenger traffic of 6 million people is evidently being reflected in jammed foot-over-bridges on railway platforms and in railway rakes with people stuffed like cattle (by forced choice), challenging the walled limits. The commuting culture has deteriorated to such an extent that even a routine inter-city travel can prove to be a near life threatening, if not, fatalistic experience. It is quite nerve wrecking to dodge way or get stranded in traffic jams on Mumbai roads, which has the highest density of vehicles per km at 696, while that of Delhi is 137.
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