Mumbai: Long-harassed Mumbai commuters have been ushered into new era of world-class travel with the country's first Monorail.
For the people used to dirty, cramped, uncomfortable - though extremely reliable - suburban trains and BEST buses, the Monorail is like a breath of fresh air on the 8.9-km-long journey.
After a series of successful trials, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan inaugurated the government's show-piece project Saturday evening and it was thrown open to public from Sunday.
The shining and colourful skyblue-soft pink-refreshing green cars with streaks of black and white, the clean railway platforms and the air-conditioned environs of the trains left most of the first viewers in awe and silence.
The train interiors are equally striking - mostly in pastel shades with large windows offering awesome multi-dimensional views and comfortable and uncluttered seating arrangements.
The stations - not too large area-wise - are also spotless, at least for now! They are located at a minimum height of around 5.5 metres or around 20-feet - and much higher in some locations - at present accessed by staircases. Escalators would be operational soon.
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