Within 24 hours of mid-day reporting on an abandoned elevator pit at Mulund station, the Railways and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) sprung into action. While the civic body has cleaned up the pit, Railways has barricaded it with metal sheets. The pit had been lying unattended for nearly a year and the residents had complained that it had become a garbage dump. Residents had expressed fear of spread of diseases in the monsoon season as such ignored spots in open spaces and along roads are hazardous to health.

The elevator pit at Mulund railway station before and after the civic body cleaned it up