Summary:
On September 7, at the inauguration of three more Metro rail lines, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stated how within next five years more than 1 crore people shall be travelling in various Metro rail lines running in Mumbai and its Metropolitan Region. Mumbai will have a Metro rail network of 337 kms, the largest across India in the coming years. We expect over one crore people to use the Metro rail lines by 2024. The new-age metro rail network will gradually overshadow the suburban rail lines as far as its route kilometers is concerned. Initially metro rail was proposed to connect east-west corridors while the suburban rail connects north-south..