Mumbai and Thane will soon have the country's first skywalk connecting two cities across a creek. This should benefit commuters who risk their lives every day, walking on railway tracks to cross the creek to Thane station, resulting in several casualties.

A prominent report in this paper detailed how thousands, from towns like Vitava and Kopri need to walk for 20 minutes around the creek to get to Thane station or take a deadly shortcut walking on the Thane-Kalwa railway tracks across the water body. Most end up taking a 10-minute, risky shortcut. In the past week alone, five people died.