Thane, the only city in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region to pursue the Station Area Traffic Improvement Scheme (SATIS), has now taken it to level two by beginning groundwork on the east side of its station too. Level one work on the west side has been quite helpful in decongesting the traffic and enforcing a pattern by segregating public transport buses, auto-taxis and pedestrians since the past decade when it was implemented. The east side station will also rise by a storey.

“We have listed out aspects that we thought could not be done or were left out from phase one due to space constraints and will implement them in phase two. Now that the pandemic has slowed, the groundwork has begun and has been targeted to be complete in the next two to three years,” a senior official said.