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Mumbai’s much-awaited archetypal underground metro corridor, Metro Line 3, has go afloat operational connected Thursday, a time aft Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the last agelong of the project.
The 11.2-km-long last stretch, whose enactment began successful January 2017, has 11 stops linking Acharya Atre Chowk successful Worli to Cuffe Parade. It is portion of the 33.7 km of Metro 3, connecting the six concern centres, including Nariman Point, Cuffe Parade, Fort, Lower Parel, BKC and SEEPZ/MIDC.
The corridor stretching from Colaba successful South Mumbai to Aarey successful the North promises to halve question clip and connection a faster alternate to the city’s choked postulation routes. Ridership connected the archetypal time done 6 p.m. was 97,846. The Metro 3 volition run regular from 5.55 a.m. to 10.30 p.m.
According to the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC), the agelong volition straight link South Mumbai with Central Mumbai and nexus areas specified arsenic Kalbadevi, Girgaum, Worli, and the planetary and intra-State airports that are not linked to the city’s lifeline – the railway network.
“The full question clip from northbound to southbound of the metropolis volition instrumentality little than 1 hr and link astatine slightest 30 acquisition institutions, 13 hospitals, 14 spiritual places and implicit 30 amusement facilities. We expect 15% of suburban railway postulation to beryllium connected Metro 3, easing the load connected the railways,” an MMRC authoritative said.
“The metro volition chopped the question time from a two-hour travel to 30-40 minutes and reflects the imaginativeness of Viksit Bharat,” Mr. Modi had said aft unveiling the prestigious task worthy ₹37,276 crore.
280 bid trips daily
The trains volition tally each 5 minutes during highest hours. In total, 280 bid trips volition run connected the afloat functional underground Aqua Line with a basal fare ranging betwixt ₹10 and ₹70.
Currently, connected average, 70,000 commuters question connected the operational portion of the enactment each day. The archetypal 2 phases screen 22.3 km of full line, connecting Aarey and Worli. The archetypal signifier from Aarey to BKC (12.6 km) was inaugurated connected October 7, 2024, portion the 2nd signifier – BKC to Acharya Atre Chowk presumption (9.7 km) – was inaugurated connected May 9 this year.
The Aqua Line volition person interchanges with the elevated Pink Line 6 (Swami Samarth Nagar–Vikhroli astatine Aarey station, Blue Line 1 (Ghatkopar-Versova) interchange astatine Marol Naka station, projected Gold Line 8 astatine CSMI Airport T-2 station, under-construction Yellow Line 2B astatine BKC and more, according to MMRC.
The enactment runs parallel to Mumbai’s railway network, further facilitating transport and aboriginal connections to the upcoming slug train.
