Mind the gap, is a common, all-pervasive warning at most Railway stations in the West. In Mumbai, there are warnings about not alighting from or boarding a moving train. Both amount to the same thing – mind the gap. That is precisely what commuters fail to do.

A report in this paper detailed how commuters at Vasai station bore witness to a teenager's brush with death. The 18-year-old slipped into the gap between train and platform but survived with minor injuries. This despite five compartments of the train he had alighted from passing by before it stopped.