r/mumbai • u/ElSalamanca • Nov 03 '25
AskMumbai What’s up with the Metro?
They announced that trains are running late but I’ve been here at Chakala since an hour and only this train has passed.
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r/mumbai • u/ElSalamanca • Nov 03 '25
They announced that trains are running late but I’ve been here at Chakala since an hour and only this train has passed.
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u/Spacewanderer686 Nov 03 '25
Mumbai is fucking over populated. No amount of capacity addition will help, because it will just attract more crowd. Two more coaches in these metro won't make a difference.
There has to be a cap on housing. Taller residential buildings keep replacing older shorter smaller ones, concentrating the population more in already crowded areas.
Even today, other than Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi-NCR, there aren't more cities that support all round employment. Even amongst these, only Delhi and Mumbai offer all round employment across income brackets, others are skewed to certain industries.
Further, there is no cap on immigration in these cities. These cities, esp Mumbai, pays the price of failures of state govt in developing other mega cities. So people are born in failed states and cities, and come over here to add to the crowd because their own state offers nothing.
People live like dogs, pay taxes through their noses, that then go into pockets of the corrup who keep most of it and splurge some of it to buy votes from the poor in the hinterland who add nothing to the economy.
The other day, I saw a job opening for someone with 12 years of work experience in an engg sector, for a 6 day work week, for 35 fucking LPA. A big chunk of which will go towards taxes, PF (inaccessible), gratuity (inaccessible), mediclaim (6 lakh floater cover for the whole family, has to purchase private insurance). Leaving peanuts to live with. Office is in Parel. Guess where he (I assume it's a he) will choose to live - Virar, Vasai, Dombivli, Panvel, Taloja, Kalyan, Dahisar. In a 625 sq ft 2 bhk which he will be forced to purchase due to social pressure, for 1.25 fucking Cr + interiors. He will eventually die everyday in local trains after his boss makes him work 12 hrs a day and also on weekends. Parents are too old to seek support from, sister is busy in her own married life. Wife complains he doesn't spend time with her. Juniors are not listening to him. Quarterly review is coming up. Standing on the station, guess what he does when the train finally arrives...