The Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) is set to provide commuters with a “jerk-free” ride on the city’s suburban trains — in 2010.
MRVC signed an agreement with Germany’s Siemens Transportation Systems on Wednesday for procuring high-speed, bolster-less bogies, which will help suburban commuters travel without vertical shock.
Nearly 115 years after the historic incident where Mahatma Gandhi was pushed out of a first class train compartment in South Africa though he had a valid ticket, a courier boy is humiliated in a similar way every day.
Arivindsingh Thakur, 26, who holds a valid first class season ticket from CST to Mankhurd and Dombivli to Borivli has had to deal with taunts from co-passengers everyday just be
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Bandra terminus, Andheri and Borivili stations will in six months boast of state-of-the-art facilities that can easily replace a hotel for the long-distance day traveller. These stations will have one-storey structures which will have deluxe toilets, plush bathroom, a lounge, and locker facility.
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Nearly 1,800 people have lost their lives while travelling by local trains in the city in the first six months of 2008. Despite this, little is being done to make the commute safer for lakhs of passengers, report Sandeep Ashar and Dayanand Kamath
Mumbai’s suburban trains ferry more than 64 lakh commuters daily. But the alarming rise in the number of deaths on railway tracks have earned this li
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Mumbai is a dynamic city where people come with a lot of dreams. It really deserves more and more and it will get the best from me.” That’s how Sowmya Raghvan, the first woman General Manager of Central Railway in its 155-year history, details her job profile and priorities, a little less than two months after taking charge of one the world's busiest railway systems.
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The Indian Railways have asked the state government for extra commercial development rights on land it owns in Bandra (E), but is willing to spend only a third of the Rs 900 crore it will earn from it to improve rail transport in Mumbai.
This is against the state’s earlier understanding that the entire revenue — the plot is very close to the premium Bandra-Kurla Complex and has great developme
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