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The other night a colleague of mine was stranded in a local train which had run someone over, resulting in the journey being suspended for an undefined period and further resulting in her deciding to cross the railway tracks and get home sooner.
And an oncoming train hit her.
And she’s in a coma, and all of us who know her are hoping she bounces back to the cheerful girl that she is.
And when this incident took place, I learnt that, on an average, ten people are killed every day in Mumbai crossing railway tracks.
That’s a ridiculous waste of lives.
And this is a city that harbours ambitions of being called world-class.
A city where every single day is worse than the previous one for commuters. Commuters in cars, in taxis, in buses, in planes, on the trains.
As far as pedestrians go, they have to manage on a foot and a prayer.
And if you pause for a second, and consider that Mumbai is much better off than most of the towns and cities in the country, where in hell are we headed?

We have the media paying lip service to the problems that we face.
And we have politicians and bureaucrats paying lip service to the lip serving media.

And we judge the media and the politicians by this lip service, giving them their TRPs and their votes.

And I’m despondent.

I hope she makes it.

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What has happned is indeed sad.

But Anant, each day when I travel by Train, I see tons of people who ride on roofs, jump onto tracks and take the chance to beat the train across the tracks. Its sometimes reckless behavior from our end that also results in that high fatality rate on the tracks.Andheri Stn platform 6&7 can also see Train to Train jumps.

I seriously agree on the fact that pedestrains live on a prayer.Rash drivers apart, the Police also are in favour to get vehicles across on a green light for pedestrains. At bottlenecks in the city at Kings Circle and Sion, 2-wheelers make use of the well tiled footpaths to jump traffic.

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anant - hadn't visited your blog in a while. opened it today to read this entry and was devastated.i hope she made it - tho' late i still pray for her. take care

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