Commuters stage ‘Rail Roko’ at Palghar, Kelwe Road, and Saphale stations after timing changed of Dahanu suburban train services. Sumit Thakur, a railway official, said to the Free Press Journal that the timings have been changed temporarily.
The protesters had occupied the tracks stating they will be unable to reach their offices on time with the change of the timings.
One of the commuters said currently only 70 percent of services are being operated by railways and in between that they have changed the timings which will create more problems for all the commuters. “The new revised timetable will lead to chaos at the stations. Moreover, there is a gap of two hours with no direct train till 5:40 am, leaving many office-goers and emergency workers in the lurch,” he said to FPJ.
