Railways drive against crossing of tracks (29-06-2009)

Almost about a month ago I had commended the railways for erecting barricades across the stations This time round the railways are again in news with the ongoing drive to create awareness about crossing of tracks and curb people from doing so This time round they using every trick in the book to ensure success, right from humiliating people to sharing incidents of lost lives and close brush with death And they have my whole hearted support.

However I still have some reservation about the success of such drives No doubt they will be successful but the impact will be limited until and unless it supported by necessary and adequate infrastructure to curb people from taking to crossing the tracks The necessary and adequate infrastructure means providing people with

1) Sufficient number of foot over bridges and subways minimum 2 to 3 per station

2) Broad foot over bridges with broad staircase most stations the either the foot over bridges or staircase or both are too narrow leading to creation of bottlenecks

3) Well maintained and clean foot over bridges / subways

4) Barricading of all stations

5)Sufficient number of entry/exit points to the station

There may few other additions to these but I strongly feel, address these very basic and fundamental concerns and then back this with consistent awareness drives and see the difference Or all the best to the railways for on and off awareness drives against crossing the tracks that meet with little success

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