No other railway accident would have been as much forewarned as the Elphinstone- Parel foot-over-bridge accident on 29 September.

No other organisation in the world would have ignored all these warnings as callously as our Indian Railways.

Two Shiv Sena MPs, Rahul Shewale and Arvind Sawant, had written to the Railway Ministry demanding immediate widening of the very same foot-over-bridge, that is utilised by hundreds of commuters, in 2015 and in 2016. Former Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had sanctioned a wider foot-over-bridge at Elphinstone and Rs 11.86 crore was allotted for the project in the 2016-17 budget, but the project was never implemented.

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