Editing Lokmanya Tilak Terminus

'''Lokmanya Tilak Terminus'''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> (LTT), formerly known as </span>'''Kurla Terminus'''<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, is a </span>railhead<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> in a suburb of </span>[[Mumbai]] <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, </span>

<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">India. LTT is managed by the [[Central Railway]] . The [[Kurla Railway Station|Kurla&nbsp;]] and [[Tilak Nagar Railway Station|Tilak Nagar]]  suburban railway stations are located nearby. It is one of the railway termini within Mumbai. The others being [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus]] , [[Dadar Railway Station|Dadar&nbsp;]] on the [[Central Railway|Central Line]]  and [[Mumbai Central Railway Station|Mumbai Central]]  and [[Bandra Terminus]]  on the [[Western Railway|Western Line]] .</p>

<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">LTT was earlier known as Kurla Terminus, as it is situated in Kurla. In 1996, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation approved a proposal to rename the station after Lokmanya Tilak, the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement, and forwarded it to the Union Government through the State Government of Maharashtra. The Union Home Minister, Lal Krishna Advani approved the proposal in 1999, at the request of Ram Naik, the Minister of State of Railway. After the decision was announced, Gurudas Kamat, the Lok Sabha member from Mumbai North-East, met L K Advanii and submitted a memorandum asking that the terminus be renamed after Babasaheb Ambedkar.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2003, the Central Railway decided to expand LTT to take on more rail traffic, as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus had reached its saturation point, and was unable to handle any more express trains. In 2006, the Mumbai division of Central Railway cleared the designs for construction of a swanky station complex to replace the dilapidated terminus complex. The new station complex design was prepared by the architect P K Das. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) also agreed to construct a ramp from LTT to the [[File:316.jpg|thumb|307px]]flyover to be built nearby, as part of the Santa Cruz – Chembur link road.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In October 2012, CR announced plans to cease long distance train services at Dadar within 5–6 years. The load would be transferred to LTT by upgrading the number of platforms at LTT from five to 12. CR plans to introduce connectivity with other modes of transport as well as build a mall, multi-storey parking, escalators, restaurants, food courts, better signage and indicators, budget hotels and an aesthetically pleasing exterior and interior. The project will be implemented on public-private partnership (PPP) mode and is expected to cost 5000-6000 crore. The project will be executed by the Railway Land Development Authority on the 20 acres of land that CR possesses around LTT.</p>