Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Borivili-Virar track quadrupling still proceeding
MUMBAI: Only four local trains ran from 10.55 pm on Saturday March 31st to 7.30 am on Sunday between Borivali and Virar following a mega block at Bhayandar due to quadrupling of tracks. This work was approved in December 1995. The present track situation between Borivili and Vasai is considered by many as grossly inadequate to meet the present day traffic. Hence, the project for quadrupling the tracks was taken up in 1995.
IMO: 12 years is a bit slow but I think the populous Eastern Suburbs line in Sydney, Australia took over 50 years to get to the present stage. A lot of that time trams, then buses and cars were used.
But in Mumbai the best choice is certainly the train and early completion can be hoped for. There is a protest committee about the slowness here. 70 organizations formed Pravas Adhikaar Andolan Samiti under DYFI leadership.
DYFI say, amongst other things: "Criminal negligence towards local train travelers' trauma is continuing at Railway administration, Central Government and State Government levels. This state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue.... We have to galvanize the people’s movement ... The official policy is to give minimum facilities to us for extracting maximum profit. If we leave them alone, the ruling establishment will delay Borivili-Virar track quadrupling project for many more years. But if we fight unitedly and democratically, the authorities are forced to bring changes. [someone said: "without filling their own pockets"] This is the experience of this movement."
IMO: 12 years is a bit slow but I think the populous Eastern Suburbs line in Sydney, Australia took over 50 years to get to the present stage. A lot of that time trams, then buses and cars were used.
But in Mumbai the best choice is certainly the train and early completion can be hoped for. There is a protest committee about the slowness here. 70 organizations formed Pravas Adhikaar Andolan Samiti under DYFI leadership.
DYFI say, amongst other things: "Criminal negligence towards local train travelers' trauma is continuing at Railway administration, Central Government and State Government levels. This state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue.... We have to galvanize the people’s movement ... The official policy is to give minimum facilities to us for extracting maximum profit. If we leave them alone, the ruling establishment will delay Borivili-Virar track quadrupling project for many more years. But if we fight unitedly and democratically, the authorities are forced to bring changes. [someone said: "without filling their own pockets"] This is the experience of this movement."
# posted by uv : 8:31 AM
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