Mumbai’s Elphinstone Road station ticket counter to be demolished for wider steps

Railways will pull down ticket counter towards north-end of FOB to build an additional staircase next to the existing one

The steps leading to the Elphinstone Road foot over-bridge (FOB) that witnessed a deadly stampede on September 29 will soon be wider.

The western railway (WR) plans to pull down the ticket counter towards the north-end of the FOB to build a 2-m additional staircase next to the existing one. (FILE)

The Western Railway (WR) plans to pull down the ticket counter towards the north-end of the FOB to build a two-metre additional staircase next to the existing one. “We have to demolish the ticket window to make space,” said Ravinder Bhakar, chief spokesperson, WR. “The process will start soon.”

Bhakar said they have constructed a makeshift ticket counter at the exit point.

Authorities have also started constructing a 12-m-wide FOB to the north of the existing FOB; the Army is in the process of building a temporary FOB to the north-end at Parel station.