Mumbai Metro | How massive Metro rail project is coming up in the "maximum city
Mumbai: In the next few years Metro is set to change the way people travel in the megacity. Numbers of commuters have already started taking the spotlight away from the Mumbai local that ferries around 78 lakh commuters daily. The Metro has completely replaced the future of local trains in the city is being replaced by the Metro rail being developed on a very big scale. When executing the railway projects in Mumbai and its metropolitan region, Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP)-3A could be the last big project for the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC). The approximate Rs 55,000 crore MUTP-3A projects are being considered a monetary drain, even the suburban local trains are also being seen as a burden by both the Indian Railways and the Maharashtra government. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is also developing 13 separate metro rail corridors worth over Rs 1.25 lakh crore. These metro rail networks would also extend in far suburbs as well. There ...