WR to change track for commuter sake

The Western Railway is going to bring in a few minor changes at the Borivali station. The decision was taken on Friday afternoon after the agitated passengers made a huge chaos at the station.

Angry commuters blocked the tracks at Borivali station and attempted to stop the trains at around 10:00 am today.

However, the railway police intervened and moved the passengers away from the tracks.
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Commuters from Borivali have been complaining to the railway administration against trains commencing from platform number seven and eight, as they find it difficult to board the trains originating from the said platforms.

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"We face a lot of problems in traversing the long distance through the crowded FOBs and subways for boarding trains from these faraway platforms at peak hours."

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Despite several representations, the railways have done nothing in this regard and they say that additional trains have been launched from Virar, which is the reason, trains originating from Borivali left from platform number seven and eight. Adding to the worst, the commuters of trains, commencing from Virar, don't allow passengers to board the train at Borivali.

"Today's incident was just an overflow of the anger of the passengers," said Sujatha Mandre, an agitated passenger from Borivali.
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However, SS Gupta, CPRO, WR stated, "We have taken their demands into consideration. We may implement minor changes but we cannot change the whole structure."

Gupta revealed that most of the platforms at the Borivali station do not have enough width. Also due to increase in the number of trains a huge chaos prevails at the station. "There is a space constrain at the station," he added.