Sink or swim: The clock is ticking on Mumbai’s most expensive Metro corridor

For long, the Mumbai suburban train network has been waiting for a sibling to step in and share its burden. The lifeline of India’s financial capital carries around 7.5 million people daily – 2.6 times its capacity. There was a flicker of hope in 2006, when a proposal to develop a Metro network, much on the lines of New Delhi, came through.However, in over 13 years, only one Metro line of 11.4km has become operational, while the rest of the