Navi Mumbai Transit

Churchgate - Virar - 83 kms - 1 hour 30 mins CST - Kalyan - 60 kms - 57 mins CST - Panvel - 47 kms - 1 hour 33 mins The airport and panvel terminus are getting ready in the next few years, for them to be successful the harbour line capacity needs to be augmented in a huge way.

@bisprad Hi, which trail was this? Any strava or map link to this ride? :)

Terrific new trail discovered in SGNP today Rode with a offroading group for the first time. Got a real appreciation of the strengths of MTBs 😁 My gravel, with narrower tires and no suspension, bounced like crazy over the rocky trails, close to the limit #mumbaicycling

@KUnknown3371 @streetfrontier The palm beach cycling track is segregated and tree covered and lovely, just need it to continue into rest of city atleast till railway stations for commuters to use it. Right now it's mostly just morning walkers and hobbyists. x.com/NM_Transit_/st…

@NM_Transit_ @streetfrontier Yeah, I wasn’t very articulate there. I totally agree that we must have segregated cycling lanes. Paint on a road has no meaning apart from looking pretty.

Such unprotected cycling tracks may work where there is absolute driving discipline. For the rest, first image shows how it should be ideally, and second image highlights the corrections they can make now.

@KUnknown3371 @streetfrontier No doubt it's great, but for cycle paths to be useful they need to be there for commuters not hobby cyclists. Pedestrians will always prefer footpaths if they are free of encroachment and safer.

@NM_Transit_ @streetfrontier Even pedestrians don’t use footpaths. They walk on the main carriageway. It takes getting used to. It’ll grow over time.

@ganzaa005 @streetfrontier Yeah, they're along palm beach road and near wonder park. Mostly cycle tracks in india are such hobby type stuff only

@NM_Transit_ @streetfrontier where are the tracks in navi mumbai? ime they generally are not on the main corridors of cycling commutes for ppl to use them

Ina developed country they would make a huge deck here to observe the flamingos from a distance

@CratersOfMumbai @Devendra_Office Adani is trying hard to convert this to a golf course. Will happen eventually I feel.

Should we write to Deva Bhau to build a flamingo viewing deck here instead? Coz his X account seems to be for one-way communication only. @Devendra_Office

@smalltownvar12 @trainwalebhaiya True but actually AC passengers have seen an increase, it's the general coaches that have seen reduction x.com/chirag/status/…

@NM_Transit_ @trainwalebhaiya Air travel picked a lot

Have you noticed this trend: In the past few years, most new trains introduced by Indian Railways have been either Vande Bharat (premium, short-distance) or Amrit Bharat (non-AC, long-distance for lower fares). But where are the regular long-distance trains? Since COVID, very few new long-distance services have been introduced, and the impact is clearly visible. Getting a confirmed ticket on busy routes has become a nightmare. Instead, we see: • “Special” trains that aren't punctual • Additional halts slowing down existing services • Extensions of current trains instead of introducing new ones This isn’t about opposing Vande Bharat or Amrit Bharat, they serve their purpose well. But what about the millions of long-distance passengers? Most long-distance trains today are running over capacity, yet there’s little focus on expanding services, as a rail enthusiast, it’s hard to even recall a significant number of new long-distance trains added in recent years. It’s high time @RailMinIndia prioritizes new long-distance trains on high-demand routes.

There used to be a time when the railways/central govt gave some bhaav to harbour line/navi mumbai. With the VB metro and doubling of panvel karjat, this can easily be done in quicker time. Connectivity from pune to NMIA is also sorted with this archive.ph/20130123013153…

@bhaumikgowande I am not disagreeing this could be true but to be clear the comparison should be done along with month to avoid seasonal differences

@NM_Transit_ Delhi doesn’t have Western Ghats style rainforests. You can go and check now even on google earth this exact same place

Delhi folks often say this was the work of former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Hard to imagine the city without her push for nearly 40 city forests, helping expand Delhi’s green cover from 29 sqkm to 300+ sqkm. (📹: Indianoverviewer)

As a country with tropical climate, India needs mass cooling solutions. Almost 6 decades ago, Lee Kuan Yew started completely air conditioning Singapore. He credited air conditioning as one of the most significant factors in the nation's success. He believed that physical comfort was a prerequisite for high productivity in the tropics. To quote Lee Kuan Yew: "Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning, you can only work in the early morning hours or dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming Prime Minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was the key to public efficiency." Yesterday our central minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that he doesn't use AC in his car, he doesn't sit in air conditioned environment and he just keeps an onion in the pocket to beat the heat. He implied that is an easy and inexpensive way to beat the heat. It is well known that Scindia's home, office and luxury cars are equipped with AC. Telling ordinary Indians to keep an onion in the pocket to beat the heat is mockery of our people. We don't have what is required to become a Singapore. Our minister is no Lee Kuan Yew. The least Scindia can do is not to talk this kind of unscientific crap. There is no slightest evidence that keeping an onion in your pocket would help you beat the heat.

Absolutely. Now because of BJPs statement that ACs are not needed, just use pocket onions, we will get a list of people arguing in favour of pocket onions.

I cannot believe there are people arguing against such basic statements that trees reduce temperature.

@SharmilaChavaly This metric cannot be on per capita basis. Will depend on landmass

Greenland's extremely low population improves its ratio, though it has very little traditional forest

An official railway handle mocking poor migrants trying to earn a living, this is a new low. Every year, despite drawing hefty salaries, officials fail to manage the same predictable crowd situations. The same failures repeat, again and again. And instead of taking accountability, you choose to mock those who leave their homes in search of a livelihood. This isn’t just insensitive, it’s deeply irresponsible, hope you have some shame left @WesternRly

@Pranshu14 Kharghar hill?

@bhaumikgowande The supply chain and technology dependence on china will replace the oil dependency. Look at how heavily supply constrained EV buses are even though there is sufficient demand.

Every electric vehicle purchased snaps a thread from the oil tug-of-war rope that has trapped India between the US and Russia. Time to move from incentives to Zero Emission Vehicle mandates and strengthen India energy security by reducing oil import dependency.

Is anyone aware if any augmentation on the diva panvel pen roha memu trains is planned in the coming years? Can't find much online.