Ever heard a foot overbridge (FOB) being waterlogged? This was the scene at Matunga yesterday, and the railway authorities fixed the issue only after citizens brought it to their notice. The Central Railway corrected an “engineering error” of not making water drainage provisions on the newly-commissioned ‘Z’ FOB (though no longer ‘Z’ shaped) at Matunga only after it became waterlogged.

After a social media post by ‘Mumbai Matterz’ showing the waterlogged FOB went viral, the Central Railway’s senior divisional railway engineer replied to the post, stating that drainage holes were being made. “So, it took a social media tweet to correct a wrong? What were the so-called assigned engineering team thinking while designing and executing civil work like this in Mumbai,” a commuter, Pramod, questioned.

Railway officials said the problem had been rectified and there won’t be waterlogging on the FOB henceforth. Meanwhile, just three months into the opening, the bridge is used as a garbage bin by commuters and has gutkha stains all over it.