Authorities said long-distance special trains are being rescheduled. At 5:30 am today, Colaba registered 122.2 mm of rain and Santacruz 273.6 mm. The meteorological department indicated that both places continued to register very intense gusts of rain during the night. “All four lines were stopped due to waterlogging between Dadar, Kurla station and Masjid Bundar,” Railways said, adding that services on the western line will continue as usual until further notice.
“Due to heavy rains and water accumulation between Churchgate-Andheri, suburban train service has been suspended, while local suburban service runs normally between Andheri and Virar,” said Western Railway PRO. There are shuttle services between Thane-Kalyan and beyond and Vashi and Panvel.
The Indian Meteorological Department had issued an orange alert (heavy to very heavy rains in isolated locations) for Mumbai and Thane by Tuesday. Several areas of the financial capital have been receiving heavy rain as of Tuesday afternoon. Areas in southern Mumbai as well as the western and northern suburbs such as Andheri, Jogeshwari, Goregaon, Malad and Borivali received around 70mm of rain since Tuesday morning, an IMD Mumbai official said.
There were reports of traffic jams in some places in the Vile Parle and Ram Mandir areas due to the rain. “The intensity of the rains will decrease from Wednesday and will remain in the lower part until the end of this week,” said the IMD official.
A report in India Times He said the Andheri subway was closed to traffic Tuesday because two feet of deep water had accumulated. Hindmata was also under two feet deep, causing traffic to move slowly. There was a diversion at Sion on the southbound arm, Mumbai Traffic Police said.
Waterlogging was reported outside the Byculla train station and on P D’Mello Road between Dockyard Road and Reay Road. Traffic crawled in both places. Flooding was also reported at Matunga Circle and traffic was diverted to Bhau Daji Lad Road, traffic police said.
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