MUMBAI: It was almost like a tale of two cities on Wednesday, with railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s budget promising a bonanza for the eastern half of Mumbai and not offering much for the west. The 2010-11 railway budget proposes 101 new suburban rail services for Central Railway (CR), but not a single one for Western Railway (WR).
WR officials were unmoved and claimed that since their lines were already saturated, they wouldn’t know how to introduce new services. CR officials said their tracks were put to optimum use only during peak hours and they could introduce the new services at other times as short-distance shuttles.
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