Mumbaikars will have a much smoother travel in a few years from now thanks to the monorail but a single stretch of the project will leave Mumbai's green cover poorer by more than 300 trees.
About 383 trees in Wadala will be hacked and 1,200 branches of 369 trees will be cut between Jacob Circle and Wadala to make way for the monorail project.
An elevated railway will chug through the walled city on the east bank of the Sabarmati, covering a 30-km circular route. Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Infrastructure Development Projects Limited on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth Rs 5000 crore with Gujarat Urban Development Corporation (GUDC) for a mono rail project.
The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday asked the civic administration to take initiative to implement the monorail project and invite an expression of interest from private parties for the project.
Though the project was cleared by a relevant committee, to be developed on DBOOT (design-build-own-operate-transfer) basis, the PMC had not invited any tenders for
The country's first monorail corridor that will link Jacob Circle with Chembur via Wadala will now have station integration with the suburban railway stations of Central Railway, Western Railway and Harbour Line, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) said.
The ambitious monorail project of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) may go for a Private-Public Partnership (PPP) model, after the third year of its commencement.
The authority at present is constructing the project on a cash contract basis with Larson & Tubro and Scomi engineering being the consortium for the 21 km route.
MUMBAI: City commuters, who travel along the main arterial routes to work and back, will be able to cut down on their travel time by over 50% once the new monorail and Metro start plying in the next three years.
Dilip Kawathkar, joint project director of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority ( MMRDA), said, "The travel studies show that the average daily travel time in the city is tw
In a bid to look for options to finance its big-ticket infrastructure projects, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Friday had the first round of discussions with officials of the World Bank (WB).
However, officials of both bodies were not willing to share what was discussed.
For the first time since the metro rail project took off, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has officially announced the commencement date of the 11-km-long Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar (VAG) line.
New-age transportation systems like the monorail and the metro have started to take precedence over the old suburban railway.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) wants to cancel a 10-year-old proposal of the suburban railways to connect the Bandra and Kurla railway stations through the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC).
