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At your own pace

As a typical person who travels by local train in mumbai to work daily, people would be knowing the frentic pace at which the things move on stations and in train. At the epicentre is the dadar station which is the heart of local trains in mumbai which acts as crossover between western and central mumbai. It attracts about a million people daily including the people travelling in long distance trains. People have no time to halt as they are busy looking to catch another train. Stopping and waiting for 5 minutes looks like an hour with things happening in fast forward. Any outsider from any other part of the world would be awestruck by the sheer pace of the city. And the trains give the perfect example of pace  where people are fighting for every inch of space in local trains to go to their respective destination. Once you start the journey you just want to get off to your station quickly as possible during the peak hours as for once you may lose your patience to stay in the train the