WESTERN RAILWAYEXTENDED THE FOOT OVER BRIDGE AT SOUTH END OF BANDRA TERMINUS FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF PASSENGERS
PHOTO CAPTION: Various views of the newly extended Foot Over Bridge at Bandra Terminus.
Western Railway is leaving no stone unturned to provide a safe and comfortable travelling experience to the passengers. In continuation to these efforts, Western Rly has accomplished another achievement with the extension of the existing Foot over Bridge (FOB) at the south end of Bandra Terminus.
According to a press release issued by Shri Sumit Thakur - Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, various infrastructural & augmentation works are being undertaken by W. Rly to combat the issues such as overcrowding on bridges, trespassing, etc.One such work is the extension of the existing FOB which was connecting only PF No. 1 to PF No. 2/3. This FOB of single span has been extended by adding two spans and is now connecting PF Nos.1, 2/3, 4/5 and 6/7. The extended FOB is 6 meter wide and the total length is 54 meter. The extended portion of the FOB has been constructed at a cost of approx. Rs. 1.60 crores. The work commenced in March 2019 and was completed in October 2020. Shri Thakur also informed that W.Rly has been undertaking various such developmental works during this lockdown period. Nine new Foot Over Bridges & one new Skywalk as well as extension of Bandra Terminus FOB have been commissioned during this period.
Shri Thakur further informed that Western Railway has always given top priority when it comes to safety of passengers. It is worth mentioning that as per the audit report of IIT-Bombay, 16 FOBs of W. Rly were to be dismantled which were considered to be unsafe and out of these 13 FOBs have been dismantled. The dismantling work of the remaining three FOBs, i.e, Dadar (South), Andheri (Middle - out of six spans, two east spans have been delaunched) and Goregaon (Middle) are in progress and the target date of completion of these remaining FOBs to be dismantled is 31st December, 2020. As on date, several works of other FOBs, ROB repairs & installation of new escalators on different locations are also under progress.
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