MUMBAI: Mumbai will get its first underground rail line, if all goes in accordance with plan. Taking a cue from the Mumbai metro, whose Line 3 is town’s first-ever underground transport hall, the Central Railway (CR) hopes to tunnel underground to construct its fifth and sixth traces between Parel/Currey Street and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus…
Aside from route rationalisation, BEST plans to deploy 29 further buses on 17 routes for Part II and 50 buses on 30 routes for Part III. Presently, the transport physique operates 45 and 84 buses, respectively, on these routes. Based on BEST officers, the rationalisation goals to combine the bus community with operational metro corridors,…
Final month, the MMRDA terminated the contract of Systra’s Indian subsidiary which had been appointed as a basic marketing consultant for design, help in procurement, development, administration and supervision of three routes of Mumbai Metro — Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan, Andheri -CSIA and Mira Bhayander — in 2021. The problem gained consideration when the French Embassy wrote to…
