Wading through leaky toilets, dust, uneven, muddy roads and illegally parked trucks. This is the condition of the access road to one of Western Railway’s youngest stations, Ram Mandir Road. The new station opened just nine years ago in 2016 and has been upgraded well, but commuters complained of poor and dirty access to the south-east end of the station, with the pathway full of leaking toilets and illegal parking.

“The entire east access is all bad. There is an auto stand at the Churchgate end east entrance, but the road is full of muck and water. The water is nothing but leakages from the toilets of the godowns along the stretch. Also, the autos are all unorganised here, but it is the closest access to the highway,” Satej Kumaran, who works with an IT firm at the Silver Metropolis building near the highway.