Metro rail in MUMBAI

The Mumbai Metro should be the answer to the city’s commuting woes. And Mumbai’s local trains will soon have a competitor. The three-phase Metro rail will be move across 40 km on the 14 km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar route connecting Colaba-Mahim-Charkop in Phase two. The Metro will change the way half a million people travel from the daily grime of packed trains and buses to a silent, air-conditioned mode of transport. It will also add a crucial link between Mahim-Bandra Kurla-Mankhurd on the eastern suburbs. To run on elevated platforms cutting through dense traffic; Metro is a joint venture of Anil Ambani's Reliance and the Mumbai Metropolitan Authority.

The Twenty Thousand crore project may be India's most expensive mass rapid transit system bringing smiles on the faces of more than six million people who brave perhaps the country's worst transportation system. And Delhi has shown the way where a 60 km Metro network is almost to be completed in record time. But it is not easy. With civil work on line one already in progress, authorities are optimistic Mumbaikars could get to ride the Metro in 2011.