Mumbai- The City of Dreams
More popular than the city itself is its spirit the Spirit of Mumbai!
This city never sleeps- even during heavy rains or terrorist attacks,
The local trains of Mumbai keep the city running.
Mumbai is the only city where people plan their day as per the train timings.
Beating the traffic problem, each day the local trains help
75 lacs commuters to reach their destination quickly.
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Mumbai Suburban Railway- Asia's biggest train network
Is divided into 3 parts: Western, Central,and Harbour Line.
A 12 coach local train has a capacity of carrying around 2000 passengers,
but during peak hours, it is filled with over 5500 passengers.
10 innocent people die each day.
Even terrorism does not kill so many people.
Most of the local train accidents happen while crossing the railway tracks.
Due to overcrowding, people end up pushing each other; if someone's hand slips, they
fall off the train.
Sometimes there is too much gap between the platform and the footboard…
So while getting down, if a person slips, there are chances of getting right under the
train.
Some men like to sit on the train's roof, and eve-tease girls.
They sometimes pay the price by getting electrocuted, travelling on the rooftop like this.
Mumbai's lifeline claims more than 3000 lives annually…
But it doesn't really seem to bother anyone, except for this one man.
Mumbai local train has left a black mark on the city.
Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) is an organization shared by Indian Railways
and Maharashtra State government.
To increase the capacity of local trains, a loan of 2500 crore was taken by MRVC from
the World Bank in 2010.
They took the fund but failed to meet their objective.
So somewhere, there is lack of seriousness towards this cause.
I have 4 petitions in Mumbai High Court.
And I have around 200-250 Right To Information applications to the railways.
Railway is the lifeline of Mumbai… and it affects everybody.
It is not my litigation, or your litigation, it is a litigation of everybody.
When Sameer Zaveri is doing so much by spending from his own pocket, so even I felt there
is a cause for which we should fight.
That's why everything you don't count in a rupee or a pie.
Because of activists like Sameer Zaveri, who have made it a law now that within an hour,
the victim has to be brought to the hospital… so we've seen a big change.
These ambulances take more than one lac people to the hospital in a year.
It's a boon to the whole state of Maharashtra.
Some 10-12 people who suffer from minor injuries are brought to the hospital everyday.
But life threatening cases, where without intervention, life or limb would be lost,
are 3-4 per day.
In railway accidents, there are chances of hand and leg amputation.
If bleeding is not stopped immediately, people end up dying.
In 2009, Mumbai High Court passed an order to setup emergency medical rooms at all main
railway stations.
I kept following up on that…and as per the Central Railway reports of January 2016, their
officials themselves have confessed that it's extremely necessary to set up emergency medical
rooms at main stations in order to save lives.
So when the court had already passed this order, they should have implemented it then
itself in 2009.
At least then I wouldn't have struggled till 2016… for 7 years for this and gone
dead on my feet just to follow up.
My accident took place in the year 1989.
That time I was 17 years old…
I was at the railway crossing at Borivali in the evening
when it started raining heavily…
It was my bad luck that I tripped and fell right on the tracks where the train was approaching…
My whole body was outside the tracks, but my legs got stuck…so the train hit me.
The reason why people end up falling off from the trains is because they know…
that if they miss their train, the next one is going to be even more crowded.
People don't have much of an option but to travel this way.
The train was overcrowded, so I thought of getting up from my seat and moving a little
forward so that I could get down at Jogeshwari station.
I don't know what happened suddenly…
When I opened my eyes, the train coaches were going over me
After 5 minutes, a crowd gathered around me.
I gave people a diary from my bag I cried and begged them to call my family
but no one helped.
Everyone just kept watching.
I was just 16 or 17… when my legs got amputed.
I had turned extremely hopeless…
Everyone gave her hope so that she doesn't feel hurt.
Now she has got prosthetic legs and she has recovered well.
She has even completed her MBBS successfully.
Everything's happened out of God's will.
Roshan's mother is proud of her today, but not every mother is that fortunate.
He used to leave home at 6.15 and after paying a visit to the temple, he used to catch the
7.15 train.
And he always used to travel from Dombivali to Thakurli and back.
When we were informed about his accident, we thought he must have fallen on the platform.
But we didn't know it was so severe.
He had a severe head injury.
We think that was porbably the first time he had crossed the tracks.
We never had to urge him to study.
He used to do it on his own.
All his memories keep coming back to us.
Most of the trespassing takes place between the stations, especially where there are slums
on both the sides.
They had promised us that toilets would be built.
But there has been no progress so far.
Now they say toilets can't be built on railway property.
Why would anybody intentionally defecate on railway tracks if you provide them toilets?
Railway is not responsible for building toilets.
It's BMC's responsibility.
There is no bridge for people to cross.
So people tresspass for their daily work.
If we use the bridge, they ask us for a ticket.
If crossing the tracks is prohibited, then people should be provided with an alternative
as well to carry out their day-to-day activities.
The pressure of passenger safety is constantly on the railway department, that works for
21 hours each day.
This pressure reaches its peak during rush hours, when the trains are just 40 seconds
away from each other.
Railway Department is making efforts as well…
They rearranged seats in train and increased to 12 coaches in the Harbour line
But, there is a huge gap between demand and supply.
Everybody in railways is very keen to solve the problem.
All our solutions that we've created are for the non-conscious mind, where I'm affecting
your behaviour, without you even being aware of it.
So one of the things that we did was…not only we created a poster of a man who is about
to be hit by a train…his fear…we captured it in three frames.
So we put up the boards right where the people are crossing.
And that little poster gives me litte fear and I say-"maybe, no".
It just stops me for a while.
Our attention to a sound is highest when there is actually a gap between one sound and the
other.
So based on that study, we also suggested the railways to make the horn staccato- that
means there's a gap between one and the other.
So if that honking happens just about 6-7 seconds before the trains approach you, the
man stops by.
People are meeting with accidents because they underestimate the speed of large objects.
We judge speed always with reference points.
So the yellow lines, for example, that we created…the people in Wadala have no clue
what those yellow lines are for…
For a person who is trespassing, who looks at it…when the train comes in
the speed at which the yellow lines disappear under the train
gives him a good reference point and he stops.
All these three solutions were implemented in Wadala station.
The first six months, the death rate came down to 9.
In the next 6 months, we had only one death.
And the cost of implementing this won't even be 10,000 rupees.
From Churchgate to Kalyan, if we take care of those 55 locations, we can reduce the accidents
in Mumbai by close to about 50%.
Now I feel scared when I cross the tracks.
Who knows when my time will come.
These days, there is too much crowd in the trains and on the road.
Diverting the crowd is the need of the hour.
Whenever I've visited Hong-Kong and Bangkok, I've been inspired by the idea that we can
explore sea-routes to travel to office and back home
At peak hours, we have trains, roads, and metros, which are now crowded with people.
Mumbai should come up with a water transport system.
Till now water bodies have only been used as dumping areas.
Even terrorists have explored it, but we still haven't.
There is a very easy solution for The Government.
They just need to provide jetties at 10-15 locations.
Mass transportation hover crafts should be introduced for Navi Mumbai to Gateway of India,
from Meera, Bhayander to Borivali, to Juhu, to Bandra, Dadar.
We can even come to Gateway of India from Thane.
This is the most realistic solution that Mumbai has.
Water ambulances can be introduced, a lot of rescue operations can be executed.
The big corporates should invest in this.
I know for sure that once they start, people would willingly adopt this.
It's not only safe, but also beautiful and enjoyable.
Today, road expansion is not possible in Mumbai.
Number of trains can't be increased.
But water bodies have immense possibilities, it's a very big resource.
I wish for the government to seriously think about this and utilise it, else Bombay will
really face a big time problem.
If I can become a doctor despite losing both legs, then I think the death records at railway
tracks can also come down to zero.
Why do you make excuses?
God forbid, it could be you or someone from your family.
Then what will you do?
Even if I can reduce one death per day, I'm making sure that every day, one family in
Bombay has got a bread-earning member reaching back home safely.
To avoid your Boss's anger you rush to catch the train on time.
But it's okay if your boss is getting mad.
If you lose your life how is your boss going to get mad?
You have to descipline yourself, that I won't hang from the door, I won't get on the train's
roof.
Ignorance will make the situation worse.
If I respect my life, first I'll be careful.
If we value our lives then we should be careful enough to keep ourselves safe.
You just have to take care of yourself, how difficult is that?
It's a collective failure and it's ignorance of a society as a whole which is including
us and I think we need to address it.
If 10 people are dying every day and we call this the 'Spirit of Bombay' then I think
we should be ashamed of it.
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