A MEETING to discuss the detailed project report of the proposed Mumbai-Hyderabad bullet train will be held at the Thane Collectorate on Monday at 11 am. District collector of Thane, Rajesh Narvekar confirmed the meeting.
The distance between the two cities is 717km and it takes 15 hours to cover the distance. The train service will reduce this travel time to 3 and a half hours.
The National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC) is tasked with the 508km Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Link project. The other Mumbai project is the proposed 753-km Mumbai-Nashik-Nagpur corridor. NHSRC has proposed six corridors spanning 4,109 km, the remaining being Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru (435 km), Delhi-Varanasi (865), Delhi-Ahmedabad (886 km) and Delhi-Amritsar (459 km).
