India's First Mono-Rail Service All Set to be Launched

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

It reminds me of this

 

[IND151]

very good news

And by next april first phase of Mumbai Metro will be completed

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Please name those cities who offer Local Train, Metro Rail and Mono Rail together.

Name other cities that offer 6 different means of public transport. Names please if you dare.

Frog: I dare you to tell me that the hole above me is not the whole world!

Berlin: U-Bahn, S-Bahn, Regional-Bahn, ICE, bus, tram, ferry, taxi, Rent-a-bike

Paris: Metro, RER, Tram, Bus, TGV, taxi, rent-a-bike

Shanghai: Metro, Suburb-rail, bus, tram, ferry, HRC, maglev, taxi, rent-a-bike

BTW, the mode of transport of the mentionned cities is not complete.

 

[Contrarian]

And please, Metro in Mumbai is not even operational yet.
It would take atleast at minimum a decade to come close to being deployed city wide.

The exact same for Monorail. It would take a decade to have it in substantial quantity to make a difference.

Piece meal, show case lines of a few kms dont make any difference.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

Shoddy journalism. The Chongqing monorail has a total track length of 143 km in operation (3 lines). Another 80 km will be added till 2020.

Must've given you an orgasm

 

[jha]

Good initiative. But Mumbai needs a full fledged Metro rail service. These Mono Rails should be used as feeder to Metro. Guess in 10-15 years the situation will improve.

 

[dray]

India's first of its kind mono-rail service will be launched in Mumbai in
a matter of days. The mass transport system consists of several
airconditioned rakes that run on an elevated corridor ferrying passengers
between Chembur and Wadala in the first phase and between Wadala
and Jacob Circle in central Mumbai in the second phase.

When the two phases are complete, the Mumbai mono-rail will be
the world's second longest Mono Rail corridor in the world after Japan's
Osaka mono-rail corridor which is 23.8km long. Other well known
monorals are the Tokyo mono rail, the Tama mon rail and the Star LRT
in Malaysia.

The Mumbai corridor will have 17 stations, two less than the Osaka Mono
Rail corridor which has 19 stations. The mono rail has been built by the
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the contract to
build it was awarded to the consortium of M/s L&T and M/s.Scomi from
Malaysia. The total cost of the project is estimated to be Rs 2460 crore.

Mumbai mono rail fare will range between Rs 8 and 20 for a single trip. The rakes are in three colours - green, pink and sky blue. The National Institute of Design has designed the exterior.

On the design elements, Kanesan Veluppillai, Chief Executive Officer,
Scomi Engineering said, "In terms of the interiors, each rake is designed
with composite seats and grab rails for easy maintenance and protection.
The well lit, light coloured interior and large tinted window panels
provide maximum natural light inside the car."

"The advantage over a Metro rail system is that mono requires a
one meter wide space for the elevated track and it rests on a single
pillar of height 6.5 meter. This causes least disturbance to traffic
running below the elevated path. It is also less noisy, eco-friendly
and easily accessible in comparison with Metro rail," an MMDRA
spokesperson said.

The coaches move on rubber tyres on concrete beams designed to
create less noise and vibration during operation. The system is powered
by electric motors that are silent and also control emission.

"The monorail project is anticipated to reduce over 50,000 private
and public vehicles which are petro-chemically fueled thus resulting
in an estimated reduction of 200 tonnes of CO2 emission a day in Mumbai,"
Veluppillai added.

The challenge was the narrow corridors available to construct the
mono-rail as Mumbai is a densely populated city. The slender tracks
have been designed to block less sunlight thus promoting natural
landscape of the city. The Mumbai train will be delivered in 4-rake
formations with capability to extend to a maximum 6-rake formation in
future.

So as per the plan set out by MMRDA, a monorail with four cars will
have a capacity to ferry 562 passengers, while one with six cars will
be able to accommodate 852 commuters, according to Veluppillai.

Apart from the elevated infrastructure, the monorail has other assets.
The 6.5 hectare Wadala car depot provides parking facility for
commuters of 21 trains.

There is also an operation control centre, a training center and a
power station, a receiving traction substation and a full-fledged
administrative facility. The mono-rail will be integrated with all three
lines of the Mumbai suburban railways.

Source :
Other assets of mono-rail project - India's first mono-rail service all set to be launched | The Economic Times

Awesome!! Can you post details of the entire monorail & metrorail network of Mumbai, like total planned length, stations, map, etc.? And is there any photo of the track? I think the tracks are a long continuous vertical slab of concrete. Interesting to know that the wheels are rubber wheels!! Would like some photo of them also.

 

[Jai_Hind]

This reminds me of the news when Kolkata decided to build monorail in 2008.... never saw any light though...


India’s first monorail to come up in Kolkata - Financial Express

 

[IND151]

^^ You guys have metro from years

 

[neehar]

infrastructure is improving in all the cities.after golden quadrilateral mumbai delhi corridor and banglore chennai corridor i guess we'll be much better