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MUMBAI: Western Railway plans to extend a foot over-bridge and provide escalators to bridges to ease congestion at the station. "WR also has plans to undertake infrastructure upgrade by shifting the tracks to create space for widening of platform 1-2. "The existing width of platform 1-2 is 7.5mt and it will have to be increased to 9.5mt. On Saturday, tenders were floated to extend the foot over-bridge to the east. "It was a stampede-like situation on the over-bridge," he said.Western Railway's chief public relations officer Ravinder Bhakar said that the gate had to be shut for pedestrian safety and train operations..