Moving Mumbai into the Future

India's largest city, Mumbai, holds the record for some the world's most crowded trains and congested roads. 
With the help of the World Bank, Mumbai is revamping its transportation systems, embarking on one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in the world. Resettling 100,000 residents and building new roads and train tracks.

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[tutorialconr]

@LucasEllerNewYork Thats the funny part, the trains cannot movie if the doors dont close. lol. Anyways, I am not here to argue or something. And we definitely need infrastructure for sustainable growth, but everything cannot be done at the same time.

[LucasEllerNewYork]

@tutorialconr

The doors are not supposed to crush people, they don't close while passengers are blocking them. And the trains cannot move if the doors don't close. So people need to learn they need to stay away from the doors so the train can move along.

[tutorialconr]

@LucasEllerNewYork *because of the obstruction, doors will open. Sorry.

[tutorialconr]

@LucasEllerNewYork @LucasEllerNewYork Thats the reason why we are building the metro. And I agree with you that that is a lack of consideration, but there are just so many people, and so much crowding that if the automatic doors are out in place, atleast one person will be crushed due to closing doors. And then, because of the obstruction, more people will try to come in. That will keep on happening and trains will be delayed. Thats just how Mumbai functions. Sad but true!

[LucasEllerNewYork]

@tutorialconr

Not true. With automatic doors, people will only crowd the train cars as much as possible. One example is here in NYC: once the car is crowded, the train will lock the doors and wait until it's safe to move along. It's safer. It's embarrassing to see how trains move with people hanging on doors and windows in Mumbai; it's a lack consideration to people as human beings. It needs to be changed.

[LucasEllerNewYork]

Mumbai is great, and it's gonna get better ;)

[tutorialconr]

@rohitb3 I agree about the buses. I used to live in Delhi, and really want the same quality of busses here in Mumbai, where public transport is more depended on.

[rohitb3]

@tutorialconr

Lol..

This is what will happen

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But anyways, u cant afford to hang out of a movin train..comon

Some people hang out and think they are "Cool". Well, if u ask me they are nothin but a bunch of monkeys, who would look better hangin from treea.

Even the buses here have the same prob. The new buses have automatic doors, but they wont shut it!!

It's soo Irritain :/

Now they are orderin new trains from Germany, and still no talks bout doors :/

[tutorialconr]

@rohitb3 Haha :p probably if they invest in doors, it would worsen the situation. Rail will be so much more cramped. It is kinda funny.

[rohitb3]

@tutorialconr

If they spend money on automatic doors, that would be like peanuts compared to the total money spent on infrastructure.

1500USD is not soo bad, because our inflation rates are really low compared to other nations.

And to be honest..Money for infrastructure is not a prob at all...they are spending lakshs of crores to build monorails and metrorails in Mumbai, but cant spend a few crores on doors?

They actually want ppl to hang out to accomadate more. :/