The much-anticipated Mumbai Monorail - the first in India - was inaugurated in Mumbai today (01-02-2014), with Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Deputy Chief Minister AjitPawar and several media persons climbing aboard the inaugural ride.
The 8.93-km-long Monorail, running between Chembur-Wadala in the east-south direction, comprising the first phase, will be open to the public from 02-02-2014, while in the second phase the services will be extended to Sant Gadge MaharajChowk in South Mumbai. The monorail project has been executed by a consortium of engineering major Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) and Malaysian firm Scomi Engineering and owned and operated by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).
The fully completed Chembur-Sant Gadge MaharajChowk corridor will be second longest Monorail corridor in the world after the 23.8-km Osaka Monorail in Japan.
