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Monorail, Metro to cut down travel time by half [1]

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

Publication Date: 
15/10/2010
Times Of India (Mumbai) [2]
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Mono Rail [3], Metro [4], Urban Transport [5], Mumbai [6], Maharashtra [7]
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