Mumbai Monorail: big excitement from the day first

[Contrarian]

I'd agree with you if the alignment of the new monorail service were along a more densely populated route, but this is an excellent option for the city's eastern fringes based on its urban morphology. This system is more energy-efficient, much better at making tight turns, a lot more manoeuvrable than a standard/broad gauge metro coach, is devoid of overhead cables, and above all, is cheaper and quicker to build. Low to medium-density corridors in high density cities (like Osaka, Tokyo, KL) already have successful monorail systems supplementing mass transit systems. Some of the stations on the route are linked by walkway to their corresponding suburban railway stations, and to the citybus network (making it multi-modal).

I do know that. The longest monorail route is the Osaka route IIRC.
I also know the advantages that monorail has.

But despite having a population density that is less than half of Bombay, Delhi is still building Metro over almost the entire city.
There is a reason for that.

Bombay should not have gone for monorail even if its cheaper, its just not enough to transport the mass of people who live there. Give it a couple of years and you will see this yourself when the Monorail will become as congested as the Local Trains. And then Metro wont be able to run on the same route as the Right of Way would have been occupied by the Monorail.

 

[Bombaywalla]

Bombay should not have gone for monorail even if its cheaper, its just not enough to transport the mass of people who live there. Give it a couple of years and you will see this yourself when the Monorail will become as congested as the Local Trains. And then Metro wont be able to run on the same route as the Right of Way would have been occupied by the Monorail.

While I couldn't agree with you more that more long term thinking with respect to capacity could bring nothing but benefits, this route in particular is different in that it runs through protected land, sensitive industrial units and refineries, and a few residential complexes (with a few more coming up whose future residents have been considered for the line's ridership figures). Not much else is expected to come up because of the aforementioned, besides, the primary function of this line is to serve as a feeder system, which it is expected to serve adequately. Only time will tell if the city's monorail services will see as much congestion as its suburban network.

 

[kurup]

What if one of these kids hit a SIX?

I also thought the same .

is this real image ?anyone?

You think it's real ....

 

[zootinali]

off topic but about mumbai metro , wiki says it will span total of 63 kilometres while System length is 146.5 kilometres .. what exactly "span" means ??? Diameter of operation ??and also it mentions that completion is expected in 2021
Isn`t too little too late?? someone please cheer me up

 

[Contrarian]

off topic but about mumbai metro , wiki says it will span total of 63 kilometres while System length is 146.5 kilometres .. what exactly "span" means ??? Diameter of operation ??and also it mentions that completion is expected in 2021
Isn`t too little too late?? someone please cheer me up

Infact friend, you should cheer us up by telling us how are development projects going on in NE India? Last time I traveled, a couple of years back, it was ridiculously underdeveloped with respect to roads, bridges, rail, airports, heliports, etc.

 

[Bombaywalla]

off topic but about mumbai metro , wiki says it will span total of 63 kilometres while System length is 146.5 kilometres .. what exactly "span" means ??? Diameter of operation ??

the total length of the system is 146.5 km, not sure what the 63 km figure is about.

completion is expected in 2021
Isn`t too little too late?? someone please cheer me up

The whole system (of 146.5 km) is expected to be up and running by 2021. Line 1 opens this month, or the next, I think.

 

[zootinali]

Infact friend, you should cheer us up by telling us how are development projects going on in NE India? Last time I traveled, a couple of years back, it was ridiculously underdeveloped with respect to roads, bridges, rail, airports, heliports, etc.

I m afraid don`t have much ,to tell you .. the 4 laning of national highway is going on snail pace and not much is happening in rural ares .I`d have shared pictures otherwise

 

[ni8mare]

I m afraid don`t have much ,to tell you .. the 4 laning of national highway is going on snail pace and not much is happening in rural ares .I`d have shared pictures otherwise

oye u r from where?

 

[zootinali]

oye u r from where?

why ??

 

[Bhai Zakir]

Mumbai Monorail: A ride above rest

India's first monorail has got to a flying start in Mumbai. Around 19,600 passengers travelled on this mass rapid transport each day on the first two days of its operation. However, a real estimate of the daily ridership would be available only when the initial euphoria of Mumbaikars to take a joyride on the Monorail settles.

For now, only the first phase of 8.9 kilometres has commenced operations between Chembur in the eastern suburbs of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and Wadala, on the outskirts of the island city of Mumbai, at a cost of R1,100 crore. The work on the R1,900-crore second phase, stretching till Jacob Circle, near Byculla in south Mumbai, is still going on and is expected to be over by March 2015.

PHOTOS: Mumbai Monorail opens for public

However, the project has been fraught with delays, and the first phase has commenced operations after a delay of two years. The presence of unforeseen underground utilities, difficulties in land acquisition, rehabilitation of project affected people and environment clearances caused delays. MMRDA officials said since the project was the first of its kind in India, its construction and civil work were different from other infrastructure projects like metro, and this took time.

Once the full 19.17-km Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle Monorail corridor is operational, it is expected to carry 7,400 passengers per hour, and in terms of length it will be the second longest Monorail corridor in the world—the longest being Japan’s Osaka Monorail corridor which is of 23.8 km. While there are 19 stations on the Osaka Monorail corridor, the Mumbai Monorail corridor will have 17 stations.

Taking the second position, Mumbai Monorail will be replacing Tokyo Monorail, which is currently the second longest monorail corrdior of 16.9-km. This is followed by Tama Monorail, which is 16 km long and then Star LRT in Kuala Lumpur of 8.6 km.

Interestingly, the Osaka Monorail cost four times the expected cost of Mumbai Monorail. While Osaka project was constructed and put into operations by spending Rs 12,690 crore, the Mumbai Monorail will cost just around


Mumbai Monorail: A ride above rest - Financial Express

 

[ni8mare]

why ??

Just asking
(as u know about NE )

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Mumbai Monorail: A ride above rest

Funny that they forgot to mention the largest monorail system in the world in Chongqing. Honi soit qui mal y pense.

 

[Bhai Zakir]

Funny that they forgot to mention the largest monorail system in the world in Chongqing. Honi soit qui mal y pense.

And Chongqing monorail is ugly too.

BTW, its only line 1 of phase 1 which is opened after all phases it will be worlds' largest.

 

[Bhai Zakir]

Why Kajriwal is against the monorail project.

He is against development like BJP, after winning election bjp have cancelled many development projects in Rajasthan too.

 

[Bombaywalla]

Enough of the political BS, please. No one cares about any of that shit in threads like these.