SMS Infrastructure Limited, a company promoted by the Sancheti family, has launched Radio Cab service with suppose to have 4,000 taxis in Mumbai soon. It would be the largest fleet run by a private player in any city of the India. Cars used for fleet will be sedans, all priced above Rs 10 lakh.

Tab Cab will also be available in cities like Delhi, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. Company also has plans to take service overseas. Tab Cab service will also be available abroad in Colombo, Bangkok and Kathmandu. Services in other cities will be launched in phased manner by 2015.

Click here to get more details about Cab website and booking number.

It happened a year ago at a grocery store in London, probably in the juice aisle but she can’t be sure. Six shoppers, with determined looks and to-do lists, broke into song and dance. Just like that. It was only later when she went to her dorm room (at School of Oriental and African Studies) did she find out that what she just witnessed was a flash mob.

Shonan Kothari returned to Mumbai and forgot about the grocery store experience until she saw an old bucket list. “Be part of a flash mob” it said, but there weren’t any in Mumbai. That’s when the 23 year old decided to organise her own, a 200-people strong flash mob that took place at CST last Sunday (November 27), a feat she pulled off in a month (see video here).

http://bpbweekend.com/feel-good/cst-flash-mob-girls-how-to-guide

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Central Railway: Your Safety is our Concern

Illegal Advertisements and Stickers attract nothing but the Law.

Under Section 166 of Railways Act, it is punishable offence to display illegal advertisements and stickers in train. It not only makes railway coaches look unclean but also defiles your image in the minds of the public.

Western Railway.

If things go according to the plans of the Western Railway (WR), standing in a long queue outside a railway counter to buy tickets will be a thing of the past.

The WR is planning to appoint special agents—Jan Sadharan Ticket Booking Sewaks (JSTBS)—to sell local train tickets and renew passes by paying only a rupee more at market places. If this plan works out, one can buy tickets from a cyber cafe, a grocery shop and even a paan shop.

“It is part of our attempts to reduce the queues during peak hours. The JSTBS will work in two shifts. We expect the services to start in August,” said Sharat Chandrayan, chief spokesperson of the WR.

He said, “We have invited applications for authorising 243 Jan Sadharan Ticket Booking Sewaks in areas nearby 37 stations of the Mumbai Division. Of these 37 stations, 31 stations are between Churchgate and Dahanu Road. Other stations are Vapi, Billimoria, Valsad, Navsari, Udhna and Surat.

Areas near Andheri station-which witnesses at least 2.66 lakh commuters everyday-will get the maximum number of 22 JTBS. It will be followed by 20 at Borivli, while 12 each will be authorised in areas close to Dadar, Bandra, Goregaon and Kandivli stations and 10 each near Santa Cruz and Bhyander.

JSTBS will issue computerised tickets. The premises, which will be used for issuing the tickets, should have easy accessibility. The applicant should be a local resident of the area and the cost of JSTBS terminals, ticket printers will be as per WR specifications.

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_mumbai-local-train-tickets-may-chug-into-groceries-paan-shops_1557299

The Rs60crore train is expected to break the 100kmph barrier and run at hi-speeds beyond Kalyan and Virar stations, on tracks that are used for hi-speed trains like the Rajdhani.

Read complete story here:

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_hi-speed-local-set-for-trial-in-may_1536189

• This will increase the passenger carrying capacity by 20 to 25%
• Each 15 car train can carry about 6500 passengers in peak times.
• 47 more 9-car services convert into 12-car ones.  soon WR will  be left with just 14 nine-car trains.
• Concerns are raised for sudden traffic on Foot Over Bridges because of rise in 12 car trains and introduction 15 car trains.
• Will Start 8 to 10 fifteen car services in a day to start with.
• WR’s promise to convert all 420 Churchgate-Virar services to 15 cars within three years.

Read more:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Too-little-too-late-Activists/articleshow/7219821.cms#ixzz1AEymvBbq

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Feb-date-for-15-car-locals-from-Virar-to-Churchgate/articleshow/7213107.cms

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_western-railway-in-mumbai-will-be-left-with-14-nine-car-trains_1487019

Shri R.N.Verma, GM, WR inspecting the Churchgate station along with Senior WR officials.

Mumbai, December 31, 2010

Shri R.N. Verma, General Manager, Western Railway, inspected Churchgate station on Thursday and viewed the recently completed work of extension of cover shed on all platforms at an estimated cost of 5.47 crore. 44 night blocks were taken for this work without affecting the commuter traffic during day time and peak hours. Shri Verma also inspected and reviewed the extension work of platform No.3 & 4 to accommodate 15 car rake trains. Shri Verma was accompanied by Shri Subodh Jain, Chief Administrative Officer (Const), Shri Girish Pillai, Divisional Railway Manager, Mumbai Division and senior officers. He also discussed the progress of work of make over of Churchgate station and took stock of the ongoing Composite Aluminium Panelling work.

Source: Western Railway Current News