India's first monorail service to start this year

(Malayala Manorama dt 19-2-2012)

(The Hindu dt 19-2-2012)

India's first monorail service will start operations in just six months. Once completed, the Mumbai Monorail will be world's second longest Monorail corridor.Construction began in January 2009, and the first portion of the first line is scheduled to be operational by August 2012.While Section 1 from Jacob circle - Wadala will be 11.28 km, section 2 from Wadala - Chembur wil be 8.26 km. The section 1 wil be covered in 25 minutes and section 2 in 19 minutes. The design speed is 80 km/hr.Each monorail service will have four coaches can carry more than 500 passengers.Malaysia-based Scomi Engineering has joined hands with Larsen & Toubro to execute the Rs 2,716 crore (Rs 27.16 billion) project.