Mumbai’s Metro Line 3: Seamless underground transit for commuters, but how did engineers pull it off without harming city’s heritage?

MUMBAI: Within a fortnight, Mumbai’s decades-long dream of a seamless underground transit system will come one step closer to reality. When the final leg of the AareyCuffe Parade Metro Line 3, stretching from Acharya Atre Chowk (Worli) to Cuffe Parade, opens this month, ridership on the underground corridor, which currently hovers around 60,000 passengers daily, is expected to treble to nearly 2 lakh.

At the same time, the city’s cumulative metro ridership across all lines is projected to cross the 10-lakh mark daily — a slow but definitive shift away from saturated local trains and chocked roads. Fare for the entire Metro 3 run will rise by just Rs 10 from the current Rs 60 for Aarey-Worli (phases 1 & 2).