Digital Lounge: WR's new plan to benefit office-goers at stns

Soon office-goers who take Western Railway (WR) trains can work at railway stations while waiting to catch their local, as WR is currently working on a plan of setting up co-working flex office spaces on the elevated decks at stations and terminuses, on the lines of European railway stations.

- Shashank Rao

MUMBAI:

To be called 'Digital Lounge', the shared air-conditioned office space would be housed inside a large quadrilateral area, with single long or multiple tables and chairs, and electric plug points for charging laptops and mobile phones. It would have mini cubicles as well.

HT had earlier reported on railways' plan to create 147 acres of air space in the city. The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation is constructing elevated decks at 17 stations at a cost of ₹947 crore, under the Station Improvement Project. WR plans to utilise these large elevated decks in a few stations to create co-working spaces for passengers' convenience.