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Friday 18 January 2013

MONORAIL IN MUMBAI

The Mumbai Monorail is a monorail system currently under construction for the city of Mumbai, India. The project is being implemented by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), with Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and a consortium of Malaysian infrastructure Scomi Engineering. It will be the first monorail in India.Construction began in January 2009. The first line is scheduled to be commissioned in April 2013.
Mumbai is gone to become first city of India to host Monorail. Remember unlike other metropolitan cities in India, Mumbai doesn't have Metro rail. The only railway medium for local peoples was local trains those were facing a huge burden of daily passangers from the years. Now its coming Mumbai Monorail to share the burden of local trains with eco-friently manners and daily ridership 125,000(estimated).

IN PICTURES: Mumbai monorail on trial run on 26 january 2010.