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[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

Finally, a welcome news.
Aqualine finally getting the network connectivity.

If you want to know more on the issues affecting the metro, check out the thread below.

https://t.co/y1V5nU3BTr

#Mumbaimetro

[MumbaiMetro3 @MumbaiMetro3]

🚨 Passenger Update:
Mobile network services are now available on #AquaLine:

🔹 Airtel: Aarey JVLR to BKC
🔹 Vi: Aarey JVLR to Acharya Atre Chowk

Passengers can access mobile connectivity during their journey on these sections of the corridor.

🚨प्रवाशांसाठी सूचना:
मोबाईल नेटवर्क सेवा आता खालील मार्गांवर उपलब्ध आहेत:

▫️ Airtel: आरे जेव्हीएलआर ते BKC वर सेवा सुरू
▫️Vi: आरे जेव्हीएलआर ते आचार्य अत्रे चौक वर सेवा सुरू

या मार्गांवर प्रवासादरम्यान प्रवाशांना मोबाईल कनेक्टिव्हिटीचा वापर करता येईल.

#MumbaiMetro #MobileConnectivity #MetroUpdate #AquaLine

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

Full piece on Mumbai Policy Collective. Five structural failures. No new law needed for any of the fixes.
https://t.co/VxQ5e7rNPf
The authority already exists. The decision doesn't.
@CMOMaharashtra @Dev_Fadnavis @mybmc #Maharashtra #UrbanPolicy

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

Nashik was one city. As I kept looking, I realised it's the same story everywhere across Maharashtra.
The problem isn't a contractor or a commissioner. It's the framework itself.
A thread, and a new piece on Mumbai Policy Collective.

https://t.co/dEza4wzqNx

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

Wrote on the sorry state of infrastructure in Nashik, and what the administration can do to ease the pain of residents, now and for future.

https://t.co/2If2gl35sW

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

None of what I'm proposing needs new legislation.
S.69 MMC Act: Named Site Officer at every work zone, one circular. S.239 permits published publicly, one circular. Aaple Sarkar expanded to cover all restorations, one GR.
Three decisions. That's all.

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

I went looking for what all this construction does to the air.
MPCB's own 2023-24 report: PM10 at 119 µg/m³ in Mumbai. 147 µg/m³ in Pune. Safe limit is 60.
35.7 lakh tonnes of C&D waste. Only 7% processed.
No agency is required to say any of this.

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

A week back, the same I had written on the personal substack. Here’s the link to that.

https://t.co/3KWuKOVqFC

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

Wrote on the sorry state of infrastructure in Nashik, and what the administration can do to ease the pain of residents, now and for future.

https://t.co/2If2gl35sW

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

I don’t know if @MMRDAOfficial runs scenario-based medical drills underground. No public record is easily findable. That absence is the point. A system lakhs of people use daily should have these answers publicly available.
@CMOMaharashtra @AshwiniBhide #PublicSafety #MumbaiMetro

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

Was on the Aqua Line this morning. Waited at the station, packed to capacity, no updates on how long. Finally boarded a jam-packed train. Just before Worli, it stopped. Mid-tunnel. Underground. No network.

And then the risk professional in me kicked in. 🧵 #MumbaiMetro #AquaLine

[Free Press Journal @fpjindia]

'Train Stuck Midway': Mumbai Metro 3 Services Hit By Technical Snag, Aqua Line Disrupted For Nearly An Hour

#MumbaiMetro3 #Aqualine

https://t.co/9188b94TG3

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

Delhi Metro revamped evacuation procedures only after making a mess of an actual rescue operation in 2013. A committee. New protocols. All reactive.
Mumbai’s Aqua Line is newer, longer, and deeper. Are we waiting for the same lesson?

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

Five months of commutes. A month of research. Four articles.
The metro works. I’ll be on it tomorrow.
But the system that builds it without honest projections, without accountability, that’s the problem worth solving.

https://t.co/OTJniieFC9
#PublicPolicy #Mumbai #Maharashtra

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

I've been taking the Aqua Line every day for the last five months.
Genuinely changed how I move through this city. Less traffic, more time, a commute that actually works.
And somewhere in those rides, I started asking questions I couldn't let go of.
Thread🧵
#Mumbaimetro

[Rohan Chavan @RohanSC_91]

Which left one question I couldn’t avoid.
What actually changes this? The policies exist. The mechanisms exist. It needs enforcement, accountability, and harder questions, not new laws.
10 recommendations. National, state, city. Building Metros Better.

https://t.co/dKgnEC1lUk