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Mumbai: By the end of this month, there will be nine rakes snaking under the western suburbs, from Goregaon to Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), as the citys first underground Metro gears up to begin trial runs a crucial step before operationalising the first phase of Mumbais first and only underground Metro railway corridor...
The first phase of the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro will be a 12.44-km stretch comprising ten stations from Aarey Colony in Goregaon, where the Metro car depot is located, to the BKC business district...
The first train arrived in Mumbai in August 2022 and the MMRC got the delivery of the ninth and final train on 4 November.The rakes were manufactured at Sri City Andhra Pradesh and are currently stabled at the Aarey Metro car depot...
In 2020, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), comprising the then undivided Shiv Sena and NCP and Congress, took a policy decision to scrap the Aarey car depot and shift the location of the car shed to Kanjurmarg...
A second official from the MMRC said there is a stretch of a few metres that connects the car depot to the Metro corridor where work is still lagging behind...
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