Thousands of commuters were left in the lurch as several coaches of a Western Railway train derailed at around 11 am on Tuesday near Vile Parle station. The Western Railway line is still affected and traffic is already beginning to pile up on the Western Express Highway early on Wednesday morning.
Seven coaches of a local train today derailed between Andheri and Vile Parle stations in suburban Mumbai, disrupting traffic on the busy route linking Churchgate in South Mumbai to Virar, PTI reported.
This incident follows the derailment of a Bandra-Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus local train on Monday evening.
Some in Mumbai however took the traffic jam well, organised car pools and tried to look at the brighter side of things while others took to ranting on Twitter:
Last derailed coach has been removed from the tracks, services to be started on fast tracks in an hour. pic.twitter.com/mZGGBhQX71
— Western Railway (@WesternRly) September 16, 2015
At this rate, it just makes more sense to sleep in the office. #MumbaiTraffic
— Nikhila (@kokudum) September 15, 2015
Mumbai traffic today is like those days when Delhi has 60,000 weddings in a day. Yeah, like that.
— Sachin Kalbag (@SachinKalbag) September 15, 2015
Ganpati, remover of obstacles, please remove car-shaped objects from my field of vision #mumbaitraffic (2.5 hours and still more to go)
— Anindita Ghose (@aninditaghose) September 15, 2015