The first rail car for the Mumbai monorail project has reached the city from transportation solution major Scomi's Kuala Lumpur works. It is expected to be unveiled by the Maharashtra Government on the Republic Day.
MUMBAI: Near Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, engineers with SCOMI-the monorail manufacturing company that is involved in the Mumbai project-are researching and working on advanced third-generation coaches and engines. The green technology promises to increase the carrying and speeding capacity of monorail cars and will also allow longer trains to manoeuvre steep bends.
MUMBAI: The city's monorail promises to ease congestion on roads as well as the burden on local train services, but whether the Rs 2,465-crore project will meet expectations and make good on its promises is yet to be seen. When it becomes operational by the end of the year, the monorail trains will have only four coaches instead of eight cars.
Mumbai Fearing a poor response once again from private players, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is contemplating clubbing together the contracts for the second and third corridors of the monorail project.
Both corridors, Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan and Bandra station-Bandra-Kurla Complex, are to be executed on a public-private partnership model.
Mumbai The first coach of the Monorail should be ready by January, according to a senior officer of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).
Mumbai: If officials of Scomi, a Malaysian infrastructure company, which, along with Larsen & Toubro, is part of the consortium building Mumbai's first monorail, are to be believed, the first leg of the single-track train service will be ready by the end of next year.
The two companies have jointly evinced interest to bid for the proposed 59-km monorail in the City to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 12,000 crore or US dollars 2.4 billion for the first phase, the proposal being taken up under the swiss challenge approach.
If selected, they will jointly bid to design, build, own, operate and transfer three proposed monorail routes for the City.
Mumbai, Oct. 29 The Malaysia-based Scomi International and Geodesic Techniques of Bangalore will submit a proposal to the Karnataka Government on Friday for commissioning a monorail system in the Garden City.
Early this year, an L&T- Scomi consortium bagged the first phase of the Mumbai monorail contract floated by the Maharashtra Metropolitan Region Development Authority.
Mumbai The Mumbai Monorail project which was staring at a delay owing to obtaining Right of Way (ROW) in certain congested localities would now be redesigned marginally to avoid major land acquisitions processes. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), the nodal agency for the project, has to obtain ROW at Bhoiwada, Antop Hill, Ambedkar Nagar and Mint Colony areas.
