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Traffic density doesn't cause any problem, it is slow traffic anyway, especially last-mile localities. Maybe there are no local trains on his route.
The main concern with traffic density would be polluted air, which you'd breathe more of when cycling.
It does when the traffic is so dense that you can't get by even on foot, let alone on a bike. I've had the misfortune of spending 20 minutes marooned in the same spot in the middle of a traffic jam because I was boxed in with no space to pass anywhere.
We take "bumper to bumper" traffic quite literally in this neck of the woods.
There's actually pretty decent public transit on my route, but I'd have to take a bus for half of it, which...well, see above.
Well, population density does that, I guess! Not much to be done about it, even in other parts of India with population not as crazily dense as Mumbai.
Between that and avoidable traffic jams created by vehicles blocking intersections, cycling may be the fastest method but also needs breathing more polluted air. But the time overhead of public transport can't be reduced with this population density. So ... a rock and a hard place!