However, independent corporator and member of the standing committee, Ujwal Keskar, opposed the monorail project saying that neither had the land been acquired nor was its feasibility report ready.
The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday asked the civic administration to take initiative to implement the monorail project and invite an expression of interest from private parties for the project.
Though the project was cleared by a relevant committee, to be developed on DBOOT (design-build-own-operate-transfer) basis, the PMC had not invited any tenders for the project. Chairman of the standing committee, Arvind Shinde, told media persons on Tuesday that the Congress was consistent in its demand for a monorail project in the city.
However, independent corporator and member of the standing committee, Ujwal Keskar, opposed the monorail project saying that neither had the land been acquired nor was its feasibility report ready.
He said that the PMC should not carry out the project in haste as it would meet the same fate as the metro rail project. The monorail was proposed to be developed on high capacity mass transit route (HCMTR) of about 35 km marked in the city’s development plan of 1987.
The monorail system requires only 1-metre-wide space on the road and rests on a single 6.5-metre pillar. The capacity of a four-car train is 568 passengers.
The capacity of such a monorail system is up to 12,000 peak hour per direction traffic (PHPDT).
It runs on rubberised tyres and is acceptable in dense residential localities.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) is presently working on a monorail pilot project on a 20-km route connecting Chembur to Jacob Circle via Wadala in Mumbai, at a cost of Rs3,000 crore.
The monorail system has been in use since 1963 in Japan, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and China.
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