People seemed to be paying no heed to the state’s new restrictions to control COVID-19 cases, as crowds on the public transport were almost back to normal on the first day of the week. As per Monday’s statistics, suburban railway passengers reached 30 lakh and those travelling by BEST buses crossed 15 lakh, leading to panic among authorities. While the BEST Undertaking ran 3,311 buses, there were 16,19,027 passengers on Monday, as per the statistics.

While last week Mumbai local train passenger numbers had come down by 10 lakh in a day to a total of 20 lakh, on Monday the figures rose drastically to 30 lakh. While 11,76,164 passengers travelled on Western Railway’s local trains, the passenger count on Central Railway went up to 18,77,100, totalling nearly 30 lakh.