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
🚨 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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
'Train Stuck Midway': Mumbai Metro 3 Services Hit By Technical Snag, Aqua Line Disrupted For Nearly An Hour
#MumbaiMetro3#Aqualine
https://t.co/9188b94TG3
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?
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
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
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