People bathing in the Hooghly river.

People take a bath and offer prayers at the Ganges (Hooghly) river near Howrah bridge on a foggy winter morning. India, West Bengal, Kolkata, Calcutta.

The bridge serves as the gateway to Kolkata, connecting it to the Howrah Station, which is one of the four intercity train stations serving Howrah and Kolkata. As such, it carries the near entirety of the traffic to and from the station, taking its average daily traffic close to nearly 150,000 pedestrians and 100,000 vehicles.