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Mumbai:   The Reliance Infrastructure-led Mumbai Metro One Private Limited (MMOPL) has announced a promotional fare for children below the age of 12 years. The long-lasting decision over increasing of ticket fares of Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro-1 was stuck for almost four years now. Now children will be able to travel at a discounted price of Rs 5 for single journey during weekends. The existing fares are Rs 10, 20, 30, and 40. The children can become ambassadors for the Mumbai Metro services, and it is a special bonanza to mark the festive season, said metro operator. According to the announcement, a child below the age of 12 will be able to ride in the Metro - on Saturday and Sunday - at a discounted fare of just Rs 5. However, return journey will be charged Rs 10. In addition to this, children under 3 feet will be able to travel free of charge along with their parents. “We introduced this special fare for children on weekends so that they can experience the first Metr...

Mumbai: The Reliance Infrastructure promoted Mumbai Metro One (MMOPL) has taken yet another commuter friendly decision by announcing 44 additional trips in the off peak hours. This takes the total tally of Metro services from current 396 to 440 operated on weekdays. Keeping in mind the ongoing and upcoming festivities, footfalls are likely to go up as more and more commuters along with their families would prefer Metro as a dependable mode of transport. RInfra backed Mumbai Metro One has brought respite to millions of Mumbaikars since inception, by providing seamless and comfortable travel and offering services that are responsive to an average commuter. In the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor, Mumbai Metro has not only become the preferred mode of public transport but also demonstrated its reliability of operations during all seasons of the year. The last year (2017-18) marked high performance levels with 99.9% punctuality and 100% train availability as Mumbai Metro operated around ...

Mumbai: The  Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd  (MMOPL) is the first to operate metro corridor Versova- Andheri- Ghatkopar. To have more people to use Public transport, MMOPL wants to collaborate with companies so as to appeal for employees to commute to Metro 1. For this, they have issued the bulk pass for the companies who are convinced by this idea. MMOPL is a joint venture company which is owned by RATP Dev Transdev Asia and Reliance Infrastructure. It stands in the eighth highest passenger density of any metro line in the world.  It carries 3.40 lakh commuters and on other days it carries 4 lakh passengers. MMOPL has recently corded with three companies and has issued about 200 bulk passes and have pitched around 430 companies and 1000 housing society so as to tell the benefits of metro and how easily people can travel without any traffic fuss. Over a past few years, office space users increased in the areas of Seepz, Andheri link road, MIIDC, Naka, Marol etc. Currently, Metr...

Mumbai: A letter has been written to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also heads Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) by Kirit Somaiya, BJP MP of Mumbai to increase the number of coaches from four to six for convenience of passengers  of Metro 1 which operates from Versova to Andheri-Ghatkopar (VAG) corridor it’s the city’s only operational Mumbai Metro One route. Wrote to CM @Dev_Fadnavis to ask MMRDA & Reliance Metro to increase capacity of Ghatkopar Versova Metro. Need to convert all 4 Coach Metro Trains/Rakes into 6 Coach Metro. Presently during peak hours it"s running to 140% of normal @BJP4Maharashtra @rajtoday pic.twitter.com/B8oNjtCBsJ — Kirit Somaiya (@KiritSomaiya) July 2, 2018 Line 1 started operations on 8 June 2014. It has the eighth highest passenger density of any metro line and as said Mumbai is the city which never sleeps works at the best, metro starts at it usual time The 1st train leaves from Versova at 05...