Rains derail Mumbai local trains; rumours of taxi strike add to passengers' woes

June 21, 2016 09:22

Overnight rains have left Mumbai's suburban train network limping on Tuesday morning, causing hardship to lakhs of commuters.

In a post on Twitter, Central Railway said: "Due to heavy rains water logging at Mankhurd, Vidyavihar, Thane, Vikroli and Bhandup, Central Railway main & harbour line train services affected."

Local trains on the central line are running 20 to 30 minutes late, Western line 15 to 20 minutes late; a few trains have been cancelled as well.

A similar scenario has been reported at the Harbour line trains.

This even as the rumours of taximen affiliated to few unions in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane going off the road today and agitating at Azad Maidan.

Taxi union leader K K Tiwari said that the Swabhiman taxi union (of Nitesh Rane) members were supporting the cause of drivers in Navi Mumbai and Thane, whose business was badly hit due to private cab aggregators like Ola and Uber.

"It will be a show of strength against the aggregators, and since drivers will join the stir, there could be shortage of taxis outside stations and at the stands," he stated.

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