Heavy rains disrupt rail, air traffic in Mumbai

Heavy rains continued to lash the city for the second consecutive day today, disrupting the rail and air traffic, causing inconvenience to commuters.

According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Disaster Management Cell, the city recorded 57.6 mm rain, eastern suburbs 36.6 mm while western suburbs recorded 32.2 mm rainfall from 8.30 am to 2.30 pm.

Trains on central line are running late by at least 20-25 minutes, while traffic on the western line is late by at least 15 minutes, officials said.

Road traffic was slow but there were no snarls on any of the arterial routes. However, air traffic was disrupted for a while this morning on account of the incessant rains that resulted in poor visibility.

“Due to persistent rain and visibility dropping drastically below 450 metres, flight operations at the international airport were suspended twice between 10.10-10.20 am and 10.30-10.39 am. This resulted in two go-around of flights which landed safely later. All operations are currently normal,” a Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) spokesperson said.

Complaints of water logging were reported from areas like Hindmata, Andheri, Vile Parle, Borivali, Kandivali, Malad, Dharavi, among others. No incidents of house and wall collapse were reported, the officials said.

Heavy rains triggered a landslide in Vikhroli area in suburban Mumbai, civic officials said, adding, “Landslide occurred at 8.30 am at Siddharth Nagar, however no injuries have been reported.”

Over ten incidents of tree collapse were reported, they said.

The weather bureau forecasts that continuous rain would occur in parts of city and suburbs and heavy to heavy rain, accompanied by strong gusty wind, would occur in some areas.

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