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Mumbai Monorail comes to a halt: why services are suspended, what's the road ahead

September 17, 2025 6:56 pm

While the Mumbai Monorail was announced amid much fanfare, ever since the service started in 2014, its running has been far from smooth. Here's what ails the Monorail.

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Mumbai monorail turns the corner

April 06, 2023 9:33 am

The monorail was envisaged as a lightweight transport system. Planners believed that its manoeuvrability and nimbleness to navigate tight turns and narrow corridors would make it ideal for urban congested corridors of Mumbai.

MMRDA hopes upcoming Metro lines will raise monorail ridership to 1.5 lakh daily

October 13, 2022 8:00 pm

It is expected that the upcoming Metro corridor will help to increase the footfall of Mumbai Monorail that will build a moving walkway 'travelator' at Jacob circle station to provide a link between Mono, Metro, and the existing Suburban railway.

Mumbai Monorail to add one more rake in fleet, built with indigenous components

October 10, 2022 5:09 pm

The transport undertaking had earlier terminated the contract with SCOMI, which was the original developer and operator of the service, over failure to fulfill contractual obligations.

ACB books Mumbai Monorail COO for ‘demanding bribe’

August 17, 2021 11:09 pm

According to ACB officials, the complainant’s company provides housekeeping, maintenance and customer services and had obtained a contract from January 2019 to August 2020 for which Mumbai Monorail was charged Rs 2.5 crore.

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Monorail services in Mumbai resume today

October 18, 2020 10:44 am

The Monorail that was completely shut down on March 22 amid the pandemic-induced lockdown in the country will initially run 100 trips in a day. A call on running additional services will be determined by commuter response.

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Mumbai: Monorail tender that saw only 2 Chinese bidders cancelled

June 20, 2020 2:28 am

A statement by MMRDA late Thursday said to enable participation of Indian companies, the eligibility criteria would be revised, giving chance to manufacturing facilities working in India for the last 10 years on similar projects.

Mumbai: 2 more Monorail trains from March

February 09, 2020 12:58 am

“To achieve the expected ridership target - about one lakh commuters daily - the time gap between two Monorail services should be cut down to two minutes. And to achieve this target, the MMRDA will add two more trains,” a senior MMRDA officer said.

Mumbai: In 10 months, Monorail sees 10% of expected ridership

January 11, 2020 8:49 am

The MMRDA had expected the daily ridership would increase to one lakh commuters after the entire route was thrown open to the people.

Power disruption: Monorail rake stuck between stations, 38 passengers stranded for 45 mins

Gone off the rails: How and why the Mumbai Monorail project flopped

August 12, 2019 7:17 am

The Monorail was hailed as the panacea for Mumbai’s transportation woes. Shoddy planning has turned the project into a white elephant. The Indian Express finds out how and why it has flopped.