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Good News! Mumbai Monorail to Get 10 More Rakes to Improve Frequency of Trains
by Suraj V. Digital Marketing (sr. SEO Expert)
There is good news for monorail
passengers in Mumbai. According to reports, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Development Authority (MMRDA) is all set to procure 10 more rakes for its
monorail project. With this, it is expected to improve the frequency of trains
as well as the ridership, which is the lowest in Mumbai’s public transport
system.
The first rake of the train is
likely to come within a year. All the rakes will be made in India. The
estimated tender cost is INR 590 crores.
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The MMRDA has awarded the tender
to Medha Servo Drives Private Limited for procurement of new 10 monorail rakes
as per the decision taken in a meeting last month, said an official.
At present, the monorail is
running on the 19.54 km route between Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk-Wadala-Chembur
in Mumbai. The project is considered to cost more than the income. MMRDA plans
to add a Mumbai
Metro line to this route in the future to sustain the monorail.
The new trains are being bought
by Medha in a bid to run the monorail efficiently and improve its connectivity.
Though the promised frequency of
trains was every 4-5 minutes, it was eventually 18 minutes officially, and
owing to functional issues the wait time goes up to as much as 30 minutes. The
reason behind less frequency is non-availability or a limited number of rakes.
As per the official record, there
are only seven trains right now on the 20-km stretch. The minimum ridership it
had after the lockdown was just over 5,000 a day. With the addition of 10 new
trains, bringing the total to 17, the frequency of trains will be available
every 4 to 6 minutes.
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