Mumbai metro - one of the most parameter by which you can judge a Life in Metro city that how well it is for living .lies in its public transport facilities The cheapest and fasted way of travelling in Mumbai .

So before knowing the advantages of running metro in Mumbai, lets see some current public transport statistics about Mumbai.

Current population of Mumbai Metropolitan region is 2.4 crore according to the population of India and rising the rate .soo the Mumbai rail network is spread over 465 kilometers, the Subarban railway operates 2342 trains service and carries more than 75 lakhs commuters daily.

Apart from that there are around 1.6 lakh taxies and 2.5 lakh rickshaws running in Mumbai.

Mumbai has its own list and precautions and dangerous to be taken care . so the current problem with the current system

1) Comfort - Local trains are so crowded that at peak hours you have in unhuman condition . you can even properly stand, you have to struggle for get in and get out of the train and get out of the train . if you want to reach your destination within time forget about comfort. ( I stayed in Mumbai for a couple of month . I also used to travel by local trains . It happened with me many time that I missed my destination station because I could not abled to get out of the train due to crowd)

2)Saturation - Even after having all these facilities, they are not sufficient to cater with current population . Every system is saturated .

3) Train frequency - At the present on an average only 15 -20 trains runs in an hour . the gap between two trains is 3.5 to 4 min .

4) Security - Very few stations have metal detectors.

Advantages of Metro compared to already available public transport facilities

1) Time saving to travel 33.5 km it will take only 55 mins . Trains will run with 3-4 min frequency .

2)safety, security and comfort has no margin in Metro .

3)Metro Environmently friendly as it runs on green energy which will reduce carbon emission. (13000 ton per year)

4) Metro has Regenerative braking Technology which will save thousands of megawatt power.

5) The major Advantage of Mumbai metro is it will be "connecting to unconnected " That means metro network is designed in such way that it will connect the important areas of Mumbai (which do not have suburban rail connect)