There is a plan conceived by planners at MMRDA that any commute within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) can be completed within 59 minutes. How far this is feasible and, equally important, for how much it is being planned for, will remain unanswered. The investment being planned to achieve this is Rs 5,00,000 crores till 2041. The MMR covers 6,335 square kilometres, with 9 Municipal Corporations, each having a public transport undertaking (BEST, TMT, NMMT, etc.), along with 9 Municipal Councils, 48 Census Towns, and 1,427 villages served by these undertakings and the State Road Transport Corporation.

Greater Mumbai and the rest of MMR presently have a 450km Suburban Rail network, a 20km Monorail, and an 80km Metro Rail network—planned to expand to 682km of Suburban Rail and 487km of Metro by 2041. There are over 26 lakh personal motorcars and 105 lakh motorised two-wheelers in MMR, both growing rapidly. To meet this demand, about 1,100km of new highway systems are proposed by 2041. Planners have also proposed 319km of BRT/EBL by........

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