According to sources, the Railways has decided to change the face of Dadar, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) after realizing that the waiting room at the airport-style Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) has received an adequate response from the passengers. Similar to CSMT, the Railways has decided to set up a well-equipped waiting room at these railway stations.
After six months, these waiting rooms will start serving passengers. However, passengers will have to pay a fee in order to use the facilities. At present, the waiting room for passengers travelling on the Mail-Express on the Central Railway is lacking in leisure facilities. Moreover, their rates are also a bit higher. In addition, they are far from the platforms on the terminus. Therefore, the Railways decided to set up a new waiting room at the terminus on a public-private partnership basis.
Accordingly, a well-equipped waiting room was set up at CSMT near the entrance of Mail-Express platforms 14 to 18. In recent developments, a tender has been issued for setting up a waiting room at the LTT station. Moreover, the tender process for the work at Dadar station will be implemented soon.
Moreover, after the completion of the tender process, the month of August will dawn for the construction of the new waiting room which will be operational in a few months. Similar to CSMT, the waiting rooms will have sofas, dining table, toilet, a cloakroom, library, the seating arrangements in order to use a laptop, charging point, catering services, tourism facilities and other facilities.