Garland wire glitch delays Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle Monorail service

Updated On: 05 March, 2019 07:36 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent

What could be a wire or thread used to hold up celebration garland gets entangled with moving train

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A majority of the commuters had come to the station for a joyride as Monday was a bank holiday on the occasion of Maha Shivratri. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar

The Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle Monorail corridor was finally thrown open to commuters on Monday, but on the very first day of its operations a garland proved to be its undoing, delaying services for about 45 minutes. Commuters were stranded at the Wadala Monorail station after a wire or a thread used to tie a garland on the railings at the station allegedly got entangled with a train.

The Jacob Circle-bound Monorail suffered the glitch between 12.30 and 1 pm on Monday at the Wadala Monorail station. Passengers had to be asked to alight from the train and wait at the station. The train was immediately taken to the car depot.