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@Tushar74249 @AviationAll_ I mean during a delivery flight from Hamburg/Toulouse (Europe), and basically 0 load (2 pilots and a few company personnel) the a321s can fly direct to delhi some 8-10hr flight. Unless ofc the winds are very extreme or u have to fly indirect routes due to airspace restrictions.

@AviationAll_ How come? Does an A320 comes with that long range non stop? I wonder, if thats really possible..

For the Very 1st Time, IndiGo is Operating its Flights to Denpasar - Bali from New Delhi & Mumbai Non-Stop Today, Without the Technical Halt in Bhubaneswar & Chennai Respectively 🇮🇳🇮🇩 This is likely a one-off case, Primarily due to the Winds & Loads Onboard.

@InsideInfraa Itne bade h ki capacity of an RRTS is not enough, build something better and bigger carrying capacity.

@KaptainKennedy And tbh, our commuter towns like Virar and Kalyan are big enough to be the size of Meerut, so it's possible and MORE FEASIBLE than delhi to build a RRTS from these to the centre of Mumbai.

Shit, I didn't realise this but Mira Road is officially the first area in MMR to get a "Mumbai Metro" Line. Navi Mumbai got it's metro, yes. But Mira road is the first to be connected on Mumbai Metro Map.

@DesiUrbanist @InsideInfraa Aree ik re 😭😂

Thing is we don’t even need Delhi’s length bhai, some 296 km of our 487 km network will cover close to 90% of our currently urbanised and populated area. Our density means we don’t need an extensive metro, we need a lean ultra high capacity metro, which means our ridership success will always come easier to us than Delhi.

@streetfrontier @ergeg274824 Thats the once major negative thing abt namma metro. iirc thier max capacity is 6 coaches and cannot be upgraded, so the system is gonna bottleneck so hard in the near future with no room to increase capacity. Meanwhile dmrc already planned for 8 way back before 2002.

@ergeg274824 smaller coaches, poor frequency, limited to 6 coaches.

This is where Bengaluru Metro messed up by inducting Type B (2.8–2.9 meter wide) coaches instead of Type A(3-3.2 meter wide) ones, which are wider, roomier, and better suited for our Tier 1 cities, let alone the airport blue line.

@ArjunM1412 @streetfrontier Its not a big difference, yes u need smaller tunnels, hence smaller tbm and saving cost. It mostly has to do with the physical feasibility of the tunnels and viaduct. The geography and road width of BLR is not really good, so narrow roads with so many ug lakes etc makes it hard.

@streetfrontier Would it not cost more per km? Costs are turning out to be a major criticism of this system.

@streetfrontier Absolutely a Tier 1 city needs Type 1 metro rakes 3.2m at the bare minimum. And say if u are Mumbai then u need wider 3.6m or so subarban locals. A wider coach can accommodate more standing people, increasing overall pax. capacity of the train and the whole system in general.

@itzme3d_1 @streetfrontier Not not really.

@streetfrontier Doesn't it depend on standard gauge or broad gauge

@DesiUrbanist @InsideInfraa True indeed, and vese bhi iirc Mumbai is building metros at the fastest pace in India so won't be long when Mumbai is up there with Delhi 🫠

Pune toh nahi hone waala, it’s too far and has Sahyadri in between. Regarding rest of MMR vs rest of NCR toh remember that delhi has had a 20 year head-start over Mumbai. Work on your master plan started in 1998, whereas work on our master plan only properly started in 2018 (yes I am purposely excluding blue because the master plan and implementation strategy both changed after that). Give us 10 years, not even 20, we will br having the last laugh then.

@Niisshhaanntt @InsideInfraa By Mumbai pune I meant the close linked economy and not necessarily the actual distance. And tbf Mumbai does need a system very similar to RRTS in addition to the mum-pune-hyd hsr And my post was more for humour than actual facts etc.

@KaptainKennedy @InsideInfraa Meerut to Delhi is much closer and flatter Look at how far pune is first and the ghats in between Mumbai Local while filthy and deadly already serves more passengers than delhi metro

@Dixit4Neeraj @AmeyKulkarni_21 @public_pulseIN Yeah obv. Even if it takes a bit more time many people want to switch to metro, just way more comfortable. Especially the people who are already traveling on ac locals and can afford metro

@KaptainKennedy @AmeyKulkarni_21 @public_pulseIN Yes, but thre is now a crowd of people that want to avoid Suburban as much as humanly possible because how shit it is.

Mumbai today becomes the 2nd city after Delhi to cross 100 km+ in operational metro Now people can use metro from the Northermost Suburb (Mira Rd) of the island to the Southermost tip (Cuffee parade)

@niyatimav @prasannavishy Exactly, a proper bus loop system with a dedicated ROW connecting to bandra and kurla stns. can carry more people than this stupid glorified bullockcart on pillars.

@prasannavishy They can run loop buses within BKC instead of pod taxi but who is going to leave the chance to make money in Mumbai eh?

Mumbai's operational metro network (post-April 7 rollout) will extend to 90km. Today's addition of Metro Line 9 (4.5 km) and Metro Line 2B Phase 1 (5.3 km) may seem modest in isolation (10 km added), but it will bring network effects by unlocking east–west and suburban extensions that finally make the current system usable at scale. Mumbai is on track to cross 200 km of metro network within the next 2–3 years, putting it in the league of the world’s most rapidly expanding urban rail systems. Equally transformative will be improvements planned in the suburban rail system which still serves as the lifeline of Mumbai. Hopefully the transition to full air-conditioning under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP 3 & 3A) gets rolling soon. That will be serious capacity + comfort upgrade

@AmeyKulkarni_21 @public_pulseIN Well obv. in a true theoretical standpoint a subarban system is supposed to high capacity,fast and lesser stops to travel long distances, while Metro caters with close stn. spacing And also travel time depends on where u live, closer to a metro stn or a subarban stn.

@public_pulseIN Ideally people won't travel from MB or VV to Cuffee parade via metro as it is time consuming Local trains will remain the lingua franca of Mumbai

@public_pulseIN @AmeyKulkarni_21 Very soon bro very soon 🥹 Red line till csmia Yellow to bkc Will help a lot, eliminating the need for line 1 to go onto line 3

@AmeyKulkarni_21 Not so easily until the red line till CSMIA becomes operational!! Even today to travel from Dahisar east to Fountain, train is the only option showed by Gmaps. Lets see after red line, how much time will it take from Mira road to CSMT

@streetfrontier A major rail based thing connecting to cuttack and puri. Then firstly BRT with allowance for upgrade to trams in future. And ofc buses the very staple bread n butter for public transit. Maybe in the very distant future a full RRTS line from cuttack to puri via Bhubaneswar.

Great... at 1.2 million population, it would be hard to justify the high expenditure. Bhubaneshwar should now invest in other mass transit modes and set others an example. Bus Rapid Transit, Trams anyone?

@streetfrontier This is with a relatively small line serving a small portion of the population. Imagine the ridership when the actual main N-S line opens connecting the airport aswell. Almost every tier 1-4 city needs a proper PT network with rail based transit in it.

I plotted data for the Jaipur Metro system and noticed a consistent plateau in ridership since February 2025. In fact, ridership had been rising after COVID. The current ridership is almost at the same level as in June 2015, when the system first opened.

@streetfrontier A car centric city doing such a thing but a city thats needs such policy the most is not doing it. Mumbai needs (especially in downtown) such policies like ulez & low emission zones, basically pay to enter with personal vehicle Then use that money to fund expansion of PT

Delhi has to start actively discouraging private vehicles in certain areas. Complete streets are great, but they need a decisive policy to cut down the total number of vehicles on the road. Already has the largest metro and city bus fleet in the country.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, I hate IR as much as the next guy, but credit where it is due. Thank you @RailMinIndia keep them at bay indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Guys think, don't just blinding regurgitate this guy's nonsense. If BRTs are so good that they make metros redundant, then why did Xiamen build 3 metro lines in less than a decade? If BRTs are so great that you don't need metros after them, then why is Bogota, the literal heaven of BRT shills, admitting that transmilenio has been a disaster and is building a metro network? Get over this false anti rail propaganda by electric bus, BRT and tyre lobby. At the risk of sounding like a tin foil hat man I will tell you why these lobby ppl spread anti rail propaganda. Because these bus lobby ppl have sell less efficient bus systems you don't need and oppose comparatively more efficient rail systems because their masters fear that if that's not done then their industry's profit margins get limited. think about it, you can sell a lot more buses and make a lot more money to serve 90,000 people an hour than you would trying to do that selling trains, because costs are too high and due to their efficiency the profit margins are waaay too low!

@DesiUrbanist @public_pulseIN @MumbaiMetro3 @AshwiniBhide @MMRDAOfficial @CMOMaharashtra Asli SoBo 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ South Borivali 😌😌

@public_pulseIN @MumbaiMetro3 @AshwiniBhide @MMRDAOfficial @CMOMaharashtra talk about extending it to kanjur once more, and i'll actually go to government and lobby to extend it to borivali.

Tried airport pickup via Metro. Took Line 3 from T2 to Aarey during peak hours - horrible experience. Waited 40 mins at Aarey for an Uber to Mulund. This is why metros must end at real transit hubs. Extending to Kanjurmarg would’ve helped. @MumbaiMetro3