Rs 50,000 Cr Makeover Plan For Mumbai

A massive Rs 50,000-crore makeover plan is underway for the financial hub to create world-class infrastructure and set up an integrated urban transport system that will combine the suburban rail network with a metro rail system, hovercrafts and sea links.For the integrated urban transport system, a unified authority called the Urban Transport Management Authority will be set up to bring about an integrated fare structure and linkages among different modes of transport.

The integration will attempt to create a coordinated routine and scheduling for the rail, rapid transit system, bus services and water transport. It will also work on unification of fare structure, rationalisation of redundant services and a coordinated public information system.

With this integrated approach, Maharashtra Special Projects Secretary Sanjay G Ubale said, a commuter can buy a single ticket at the starting point and use different modes of transport like suburban rail, metro, waterways and road transport to reach a final destination.

As part of the project, Mumbai will have nine metro corridors that will be mostly elevated and connect various suburban points. The project will also upgrade the three-railway suburb network and create a Worli-Nariman Point sea link, an East Island Freeway and a waterway between Borivli and Nariman Point. The plan, to be completed by 2015, will also provide for inter-modal terminals at various points for transfers between different modes of transports.