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News18
03-08-2025
- Business
- News18
Mumbai Metro 2B & Not To Be Stuck In Traffic: The Line That Will Connect Andheri To Mankhurd
Last Updated: Mumbai Metro Yellow Line: How far has Mumbai Metro 2B construction reached? What is the route from Andheri (D. N. Nagar) to Mandale (Mankhurd)? Which points will it reach? Mumbai Metro Line 2B: Adding to Mumbai's comprehensive Metro network, the city is likely to get Mumbai Metro Line 2B (Yellow Line)—the corridor from Andheri (D. N. Nagar) to Mandale (Mankhurd) – by this year. How far has the construction reached? What is the line? What is its route? Which points will it reach? Mumbai Metro Line 2B: All about the yellow line Route: Fully elevated, 23.643 km from DN Nagar (Andheri West) to Mandale (Mankhurd East) Number of stations: 20 elevated stations along the corridor Station List: What is the cost of Mumbai Metro Line 2B? Girder works: 87% When is Mumbai Metro 2B expected to be ready? Phase 1 (Mandale to Diamond Garden, 5.4 km, 5 stations): Trial runs began April 2025; public opening expected by end-2025 Full Line (to DN Nagar): Commissioning likely phased mid-2026 through end of 2027 Mumbai Metro 2B: Trains and capacity Rolling Stock: Six coach trains built by BEML, equipped with regenerative braking, mobile charging points, CCTV, etc. Depots: Mandale depot (31 ha, 98% ready) will house up to 72 rakes How will it save Mumbaiites' travel time? It will reduce travel time by 50–75%, depending on traffic routes. One sector saves 15-20 minutes on local routes. How will Metro 2B impact Mumbai? Expected to draw over 10 lakh daily ridership by 2031 Major reductions in road congestion across eastern and western suburbs Boosts connectivity to commercial, residential, and industrial hubs Mumbai Metro 2B: Connectivity and interchanges Suburban Railway at Kurla East & Mankhurd Monorail at Chembur Line 3 (Colaba–Bandra-Aarey) – via Bandra interchange -Income Tax Office (BKC) Line 4 at Kurla East Planned connection to Airport Rail and Metro 8A at Mankhurd Interchange design ensures relatively smooth switching via common stations with shared concourses or transfer corridors. Why Mumbai Metro 2B is key for commuters and officegoers? Enables seamless east west travel — significantly cuts time for professionals commuting between Andheri/BKC and Chembur/Mankhurd/harbour areas. Provides efficient linkages to other metro lines, rail and monorail systems, aiding multi-modal travel. Connects directly to suburban railway, monorail, and other metro lines for multi-modal access Linked to highway corridors (Western and Eastern Express Highways) via interchange nodes Are there plans to link it to upcoming lines? Planned connection to Metro 8A, Airport Rail, and further corridors expanding to Navi Mumbai and beyond. About the Author Manjiri Joshi At the news desk for 17 years, the story of her life has revolved around finding pun, facts while reporting, on radio, heading a daily newspaper desk, teaching mass media students to now editing special copies ...Read More tags : Maha Mumbai Metro Operation Corporation Ltd Mumbai metro news18 specials view comments Location : Mumbai, India, India First Published: August 03, 2025, 17:04 IST News cities » mumbai-news Mumbai Metro 2B & Not To Be Stuck In Traffic: The Line That Will Connect Andheri To Mankhurd Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Herald Sun
12-05-2025
- Business
- Herald Sun
Allan government to spend an extra $727m on Metro Tunnel
Don't miss out on the headlines from Victoria. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Allan government will splash an extra $727m to turn on and run train services through its $15bn Metro Tunnel in next week's state budget. Flanked by 10 western suburbs MPs, Premier Jacinta Allan on Monday gave her first insight into what will be contained in the state budget – titled Focused On What Matters Most. To be handed down on May 20, Treasurer Jaclyn Symes' first budget will include a $5bn public transport blitz. But in a sign of the state's dire finances, only $825m of that $5bn package will be new money. Of that, $727m will pave the way for turn up and go services for the Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines – which run through the Metro Tunnel – to ensure that commuters can jump on a train every few minutes. That cash injection is on top of the Metro Tunnel's already blown-out $15bn price tag. But Premier Jacinta Allan said the extra funds don't equate to a new blow out because infrastructure funding is separate to service funding. 'If you think about … we've made capital investment that has seen thousands of workers work on this project over a number of years to get to the point where we can now in this year's budget fund the services … that will run through the Metro Tunnel,' she said. Meanwhile, an extra $98.7m will go towards more services across the network including during peak times on the Werribee and Sandringham lines. The remainder of the funds that were spruiked by Ms Allan on Monday was a $4bn commitment to redevelop Sunshine station and turn it into a transport 'super hub'. That money, which had already been announced, includes a $2bn contribution from the federal Labor government towards the project. The Sunshine super hub project has been hailed by Ms Allan as the key to delivering the long awaited Airport Rail project. 'Sunshine station is such an important gateway for the airport, for the western suburbs, for the city and for the regional trains as well, and this will transform Sunshine station into a transport super hub for suburban and country and airport rail trains,' Ms Allan said. 'It also paves the way, because it untangles the network, for future works to be able to deliver more services for the western suburbs.' Once complete, the Sunshine super hub will be able to support more than 40 metropolitan and regional trains per hour, as well as trains from the Melton and Melbourne Airport lines.
The Age
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
‘Unwatchable drivel': ABC panellist blasts Aunty's ‘shallow' election coverage
Hmmm. Ratings as a riposte to a participant pointing to the poor quality of a flagship election broadcast, as if popularity is the arbiter for the ABC nowadays. We think ABC chair Kim Williams would not approve. Allan's speech surprise Late on election night, Labor was ready to spring one more surprise – a rare Saturday night in Melbourne appearance by Premier Jacinta Allan. Allan is prone to spending Fridays and the weekend in her Bendigo electorate, but Labor's landslide victory for the ages drew her to the car park behind Trades Hall in Carlton at 10.30pm on Saturday as unionists and Labor campaign volunteers commenced an epic party. Luke Hilakari, Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary, revved up the crowd with a 'UNION … POWER' war cry and some pointed jokes aimed at vanquished union hate figures Peter Dutton and Michael Sukkar. ACTU president Michele O'Neil couldn't stop smiling, and secretary Sally McManus clutched a can of Mountain Goat Beer while rocking a black 'Don't Risk Dutton' T-shirt. Later CBD also spotted campaign wunderkind Jett Fogarty, Labor senior assistant state secretary and deputy campaign director. Hilakari bellowed at the crowd from a temporary stage in the car park: 'We have people power, not nuclear power, comrades. 'We have definitely won Dickson,' he said, referring to Dutton's seat. 'Turns out Australians like their potatoes pretty smashed. To be fair, he is not a monster. He's also not a member of parliament, comrades!' He noted there were almost no Liberal MPs left standing in metropolitan Melbourne. 'Looks like we are going to win Deakin, because Michael's going to sooka all day long about that!' All the while hire cars from all four corners of Melbourne paused on Lygon Street outside, doors opening to dispense youthful red-shirted campaign volunteers. Hilakari then introduced his surprise guest, Jacinta Allan. 'We saw that Australians and Victorians had a choice, and they said no to cuts, but they said yes to Medicare,' said Allan, dressed in a fiery red jacket. 'They said no to nuclear and yes to cheaper renewable being built right across the country. They said no to those blockers. They said yes to the builders. They said yes to the Suburban Rail Loop. They said yes to Airport Rail.' But to be honest, the volume of cheering at this surprise statement was several decibels lower than when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese proudly stated he had defended Medicare. 'These results are not despite what we've done here in Victoria, because we have done all we have,' the premier said. McManus was so beside herself she searched for the right words to describe the fate of Melbourne's Liberal MPs. 'They're all gone. We ….. shredded them. And we are looking at f---ing 90 seats,' she said. McManus had the highest praise reserved for Emma Kingdon, ACTU campaigns director and, like McManus, a Star Wars geek, inviting Kingdon up on stage as Emma 'Skywalker' Kingdon. As Sunday was May 4, otherwise known as Star Wars Day, McManus couldn't have been happier. Price is not right Oh dear. Coalition Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was called on by the ABC to reflect on Saturday night's dire result. She instead took a spray at the media, including this very column. Loading During the campaign, CBD and others revealed Price's happy 'from my family to yours' Christmas photo of her and her songwriter husband, Colin Lillie, decked out in special festive Make America Great Again headwear. Asked by host Sarah Ferguson whether her embrace of US President Donald Trump, and her photos with the infamous cap, helped seal Peter Dutton 's fate, Price hit out at the 'mudslinging' media. 'There is a whole lot of mud you just slung right there, can I just say, in terms of wanting this country to be great. Donald Trump doesn't own those four words,' she said. 'Because the media can go through your personal Facebook photos, and find a picture that was taken, in jest, at Christmastime, and then smear you with it, that is the problem. It's the smearing that goes on, certainly within the media, just as you are trying to talk about this seriously. I'm deadly serious about this issue. Mud? Come, come, we at CBD are nothing if not great ironists and prefer to take our cues from that journalistic enterprise Price no doubt greatly admires, America's Fox News, whose motto reads: 'We report – you decide'.
