The metropolitan commissioner, S. V. R. Srinivas, announced: “We have decided to begin the advertising run at 4 pm on January 20.
The operations will be available every eight minutes at peak times. During off-peak hours, the interval between trains will be shortened to 10 minutes.
Despite the fact that 28 of the 44 rakes required to operate routes are currently available, metro service will first run only with 20 rakes.
The chief minister, Eknath Shinde, stated: “We are here to inspect this metro line, as well as Metro Line 2A (Andheri-West to Dahisar), before PM Narendra Modi’s arrival to Mumbai on January 19.” (Andheri East to Dahisar). The western suburb residents of Mumbai will considerably benefit from the traffic relief.
The 2,280-passenger six-car rakes were built by Bharat Earth Movers Limited as part of the Make in India programme. As fresh rakes are added to the fleet, Srinivas said, “We will enhance the regularity to 4-5 minutes.”
The first service will leave Andheri-west (Line 2A) at 6 in the morning, while the final train will leave Gundavali (Line 7) at 9.24 in the evening. At 5.55 in the morning and 9.24 in the evening, the first and last trains depart Gundavali, respectively. Along the whole length of routes 2A & 7, the train won’t stop in Dahisar.
It would take 75 minutes to travel from Andheri-W towards Gundavali via Dahisar. However, it will only take you 40 & 35 minutes, respectively, to travel the 18.6 km on Line 2 between Andheri-W & Dahisar as well as the 16.5 km on Route 7 between Dahisar and Gundavali.
According to Srinivas, we expect the daily ridership to exceed 4-5 lakh. Phase I of the two lines (Dahanukarwadi-Dahisar-Aarey) is currently used by 39,000 people, despite the fact that officials assert the short route does not connect to high-density neighbourhoods of Andheri. The maximum and minimum fares are 10 and 60 rupees, respectively.
