Mumbai has long been praised for its resilience as the city that rewards enterprise and its chaos romanticised in films, but it took the Mumbra outrage to turn the spotlight on its hidden toll of nearly 10 people dying on its suburban railway system every day. The four people who fatally fell from a local train like rag dolls became the faces of a chronic malaise. Even with a fresh emphasis on safety, there can be no revolutionary change to the quality of suburban train travel in the short term. Yet the world’s busiest urban train system can be de-stressed by quickly addressing the easier pieces of the puzzle. To start with, there is a tremendous mismatch between demand and supply; a........

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