Short cut to the other side

The location shown alongside is somewhere near the Delhi-UP border. This is on the UP side and the area is rather seedy looking and not much of development has taken place. The road coming from the left of the picture terminates somewhere near the tracks. This is the track stretch between Anand Vihar (near NDLS) and Ghaziabad ( you are looking towards Ghaziabad). Towards the right of the picture is the Sahibabad Industrial Estate. This road is frequented by many people all through the day and you find numerous people crossing over all the time. Amongst those who take this quick route are cyclists, cycle rickshaw walas and also scooterists. It might also be added that the train traffic on this main line is pretty heavy too. And the trains travel at a pretty high speed on this stretch. This way of crossing the tracks is rather dangerous especially if you are lugging your rickshaw or scoooter across. The over bridge is at quite some distance so nobody has any incentive to go upto there to just cross over. Maybe this place is in need of an underpass - this is quite feasable since the tracks are at quite a height above the level of the road. It would save the botherations and dangers of a level-crossing. We have anyway a large number of deaths at both manned and unmanned level crossings. And this current way of crossing is certainly many more times dangerous.