Railways have finally fixed the gap on both sides of the new foot overbridge (FOB) at Wadala. While gates have been closed and the wall plugged on one side, steel fencing has come up on the other side of the rail tracks. Despite spending Rs 7.8 crore to build the structure, the FOB had largely remained unused, as there was a big gaping hole in the wall just below the bridge, which people used as a shortcut across tracks. 

The area — Raoli Junction — has busy rail traffic with trains from both Navi Mumbai and Western Railway (WR) meeting at this point, along with occasional freight traffic of the Mumbai Port Trust. mid-day had highlighted locals’ complaints about how the Railways had inadvertently created a new shortcut during the construction of the FOB.

A woman walks through an opening to illegally cross the tracks (right) The same spot on July 21