A Vasai-based engineer's glowing commuter safety experiment has finally seen the light of day on Central Railway (CR), a year after mid-day carried a front-page report on it. On Saturday, CR ran their first local train with the blue light indicator that warns commuters when the train is about to leave from the platform.

The idea was pitched to CR by engineer Joseph Malachi - who'd quit his job to focus on making railway tracks safer - in June 2016. Malachi's pitch was for an audio-visual alarm that could warn commuters just before the train is about the leave the platform. mid-day reported on the device on March 31, 2018, in 'This hack could reduce rail deaths' when CR was carrying out trials for the device.