Mumbai Metro Opens For Public

MUMBAI, INDIA - JUNE 8: Passengers wait for the metro ride as opens for public after the Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan flagged off the first service from Versova Station in the western suburb on June 8, 2014 in Mumbai, India. This is India's first metro railway project implemented on a public-private partnership model by a consortium headed by RInfra since 2007, at a total cost of around Rs.4,300 crore. The metro service is available on Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor With this service, the journey on the 11.4 km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar stretch will reduce to 20 minutes which otherwise takes around 90 minutes at present by road transport. (Photo by Kalpak Pathak/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)