Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal and state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the second phase of Mumbai monorail on Sunday. The two ministers also travelled by the monorail till Wadala.
The project is around 19 kilometres long and around 30 lakh travellers are expected to travel through this line per month.
And that’s the #MonoRail which began it’s journey today to serve millions of Mumbaikars and bring ease in their day to day life…#FirEkBarModiSarkar pic.twitter.com/C6E9fIIUzl
— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) March 3, 2019
“The 8.26-km long Phase-I from Chembur to Wadala was already operational and now with this 11.28-km Phase-II from Wadala to Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk having been completed, the Mumbaikars will be able to ride the entire 19.54-km long Chembur to Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk Monorail corridor, which is devoid of any mass public rapid transit system,” a statement from Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) read.
And some beautiful clicks of #MonoRail in #Mumbai , the new member in ‘Mumbai’s lifeline league’ ! pic.twitter.com/38dcdoOMoq
— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) March 3, 2019
The entire project was scheduled to be completed in 2011 but after a delay of over eight years. The service will be available for the general public from Monday.
The Monorail will operate daily from 6 am to 10 pm with a 22-minute gap between the two Mono trains and will also reduce the travel time from 90 to a mere 30 minutes.
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There are many proposed monorail projects-
– Ahmedabad Monorail, Ahmedabad
– Aizawl Monorail, Aizawl
– Allahabad Monorail, Allahabad
– Bengaluru Monorail, Bangalore
– Chennai Monorail, Chennai
– Coimbatore Monorail, Coimbatore
– Delhi Monorail, New Delhi
– Hyderabad Monorail, Hyderabad
– Indore Monorail, Indore
– Kanpur Monorail, Kanpur
– Kolkata Monorail, Kolkata
– Navi Mumbai Monorail, Navi Mumbai
– Patna Monorail, Patna
– Pune Monorail, Pune
– Ranchi Monorail, Ranchi
– Thiruvananthapuram Monorail, Thiruvananthapuram
– Warangal Monorail, Warangal
(With ANI inputs)