With road over bridges proving to be expensive and time-consuming to construct, Mumbai region railway now seems to have got a new quick-fix concept of vehicle road under bridges at road intersections to shut level crossings, speed up trains and avoid traffic jams. As many as 255 have been planned on Central Railway with over 20 just in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region to replace road crossings.

This was disclosed in the Parliament on Wednesday after Mumbai North East MP Manoj Kotak raised a query about the status of railway bridges in Mumbai and surroundings.