India, Sept. 17 -- The Western Railway (WR) has spent more than 150,000 man-hours over the past six years to ensure 144 road over bridges (ROBs) and foot over bridges (FOBs) on the Churchgate to Dahanu stretch are safe, officials familiar with the matter told Hindustan Times.

A comprehensive inspection of all ROBs and FOBs on the Churchgate to Dahanu stretch was initiated after the September 2017 stampede on the Elphinstone Road FOB and the collapse of a part of the Gokhale ROB in July 2018. In 2019-20, the IIT Bombay conducted an audit of all the bridges jointly with WR and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

Following submission of the audit report, the BMC appointed agencies to inspect all bridges in the city every six mont...