Several environmental organisations have called for a peaceful protest at Aarey forest on Sunday morning and hundreds of Mumbaikars are likely to gather at the picnic point in the area
The MVA coalition led by Uddhav Thackeray had decided to move the Metro-3 car shed from Aarey to Kanjurmarg. The construction of car shed at Aarey had been a sticking point between the BJP and Shiv Sena.
Mumbai Metro One is the first MRTS (Mass Rapid Transit System) in the world to offer e-ticket on WhatsApp, it claimed in a release.
The state unit of the BJP tweeted that these metro lines as well as several other ones were cleared and construction started under the Fadnavis government between 2014 and 2019.
Both lines are fully elevated and Metro 2A, running from Dahisar west to D.N. Nagar (Andheri west), and Metro 7, from Dahisar east to Andheri east, would immensely benefit the people in the north-western suburbs.
The state government has permitted the MMRCL to create a temporary facility - a train delivery and testing track area for the technical trials of the prototype 8-coach trains due to arrive here by December, said MMRCL Managing Director Ranjit Singh Deol.
Maharashtra: The first indigenously built rake to be deployed for Metro 2A and Metro 7 arrived in Mumbai from the Bengaluru facility of Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML).
At present, metro services are available with first train from Versova at 7.50 am and last train from Ghatkopar at 10.15 pm with weekday ridership at around 80,000.
Mumbai Metro will get its first of its indigenously-manufactured driverless trains from Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. Bengaluru, Urban Development Minister Eknath Shinde said here on Wednesday.
In a first for India, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (MMRCL) will lay vibration-absorbing tracks on the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Line 3, an official said on Wednesday.
Metro services in Mumbai will resume operations from today with standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Metro rail in Mumbai will resume operations from tomorrow (October 19, 2020) with standard operating procedures (SOPs). Metro services will operate in a graded manner with only half of pre-COVID levels and a third of passenger capacity.
The Maharashtra government's decision to relocate the Aarey Metro car shed to Kanjurmarg in Mumbai is "unwise" and will adversely affect the Metro-3 project and the city's public transport
The New Development Bank (NDB) of the BRICS countries has approved USD 241 million loans for Mumbai Metro and USD 500 million for the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) Project.
As per the report, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has hugely affected the project as a large number of migrant workers employed by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority or MMRDA have returned to their villages.
Public sector firms like LIC, SBI and Indian Oil are in race with large conglomerates like JSW, GlaxoSmithKline and Piramal for getting naming rights on the 33 km Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro-3 corridor.
Ashwini Bhide, the Managing Director of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL), has been transferred in a bureaucratic reshuffle of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers in Maharashtra. Ranjit Singh Deol has been appointed in Bhide's place.
If things work as planned, Mumbai will have at least two operational metro lines in 2020 connecting the western suburbs of the city. The two corridors, Metro Line-2A (Dahisar-DN Nagar) and Metro Line-7 (Dahisar East-Andheri East), are proposed to be commissioned simultaneously in 2020, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) said in a statement.
The Supreme Court Friday extended the interim order by which it had stayed further cutting of trees in Mumbai's Aarey colony for setting up the Metro car shed. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta said it will hear the matter at length in December.
Setting a record of sorts, the Reliance Infrastructure-promoted Mumbai Metro One Ltd (MMOPL) has ferried over 600 million commuters in just 65 months of operations, a spokesperson said here on Tuesday.
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