I Walked the way from the Thane railway station to Thane west during the early morning hours and i was struck by the way the raods are laid with concrete blocks for big junctions where the buses have to take steep turns, and just plain tar roads for straight roads and sometimes even concrete roads too. this it appeared to me to follow some logic. the concrete blocks are hard and can withstand the wear and tear of the erosion made with the bus tyres. while the concrete road is very resistant to the corrosive effect of running water too(If iam correct).another thing i observed was that these concrete block paved roads were laid only at places where there is a sloping angle to the road, this enables the rain water to run away and not stagnate and i found this arrangement to be a very clever piece of civil engineering.Because stagnant water is more corrosive than running water.

i booked a ticket to mumbai from chennai and i could have made a specific request for an upper berth ticket, whereas i  was allotted the middle berth. the disadvantage is that i could not sleep whenever i wanted to,and has to get the consent of the person occupying the lower berth before i put the middle berth for sleeping. another disadvantage is that the hot winds makes life miserable for the travellers wearing a thin white cotton cloth , whereas i was wearing a jeans pant and a thick cotton t-shirt.when i slept in the middle berth either on my back or on my sides, the portion of the body that is in touch with the rexin seats is wet due to sweating.to compound the matters the fan is running in the ceiling and helping to blow the hot air that is collected at the top back to the passengers who are travelling. a suggestion was said by a fellow co. passenger, as follows, when ever a train stops at a big junction arrangements can be made to spray water on top of the ceiling of the train compartments, then the compartment can get cooler due to evaporation of the water. it appeared to be a good suggestion to me. and can be tried at railway station where the water tanks in the latrines are refilled in major junctions.

i booked a ticket to mumbai from chennai and i could have made a specific request for an upper berth ticket, whereas i  was allotted the middle berth. the disadvantage is that i could not sleep whenever i wanted to,and has to get the consent of the person occupying the lower berth before i put the middle berth for sleeping. another disadvantage is that the hot winds makes life miserable for the travellers wearing a thin white cotton cloth , whereas i was wearing a jeans pant and a thick cotton t-shirt.when i slept in the middle berth either on my back or on my sides, the portion of the body that is in touch with the rexin seats is wet due to sweating.to compound the matters the fan is running in the ceiling and helping to blow the hot air that is collected at the top back to the passengers who are travelling. a suggestion was said by a fellow co. passenger, as follows, when ever a train stops at a big junction arrangements can be made to spray water on top of the ceiling of the train compartments, then the compartment can get cooler due to evaporation of the water. it appeared to be a good suggestion to me. and can be tried at railway station where the water tanks in the latrines are refilled in major junctions.

I was travelling with my Uncle from Chembur to Thane West and my uncle pointed out to me the Back waters where the sea water surges into the land where salt is being made using the surge of sea water during high tide. considering the fact that the price of land in Mumbai is always very high, i was wondering how these kind of prime land very next to the express way are left vacant, it appears that if sufficient land is not kept for the sea water to enter then there might be accumulation of sand and over a period of time the pressure gets built up from the sea water and one fine day there might be a tidal wave incursion inwards on to the constructed buildings that has the potential to cause lot of damage to life and materials. further i was able to see lot of vegetation on the area supposedly  meant for salt water incursion, which means that there are plants that can withstand the salt water habitat of the sea. these kind of vegetation can be encouraged on these waste lands and atleast the atmosphere gets cleaner. further another observation that i made was to the right of the Express way ,ie. on the sea ward side the atmosphere was clear and i was able to see the buildings on the navi mumbai side , where as on the mainland side, the atmosphere was hazy with lot of pollution. So it makes sense to have more of this open natural land. it is really a surprise that even this much land is made available for natural sea water to come and go. Another thing i observed when i went for  a walk on the Sanjay Gandhi National Park,Thane was that the greenery till midway  on a steep hill slope to the western side of the enterance to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park was barren. i heard from my uncle that the population of Leopards has multiplied three times in the last six years and there is not enough prey for these leopards and hence they approach the villages for easy prey like children playing in the Padas. These Leopards venture to places like vasanth vihar too and one of the leopards even came int the security cabin in one of the apartment blocks. all these might be due to the lack of proper routes for the animals to move form one green cover to another.