Commuters provides solutions to ease over-crowding in Mumbai stations
Residents in Mumbai are offering solutions to deal with the crowded railways stations in the city. Officials of the concerned authority states that the has been a immense number of ideas that the authority gets to improve the railway system in the city. Officials say that seven million commuters have come up with novel ideas to sort out the situation. The ideas range from expanding vertically and cyclic timetables to Re-spacing signals. They say that a cyclic timetable. is the one that repeats itself after a fixed duration which can be of great convenience to the passengers.
A study has also suggested that trains with better acceleration and braking capabilities helps in reduction of the time a train occupies the station while entering and exiting. Commuter organisations and commuters have suggested a range of workable solutions to cut down crowding and make the daily commute easier on Mumbai’s suburban railways in the given set of infrastructure. Studies have also suggested that there is room to accommodate five more trains.
Source: Daily News Analysis
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