While the Chief Minister and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) officials expected the ridership on the entire monorail corridor between Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle to be close to one lakh a day, it has been observed that it is not close to even 50,000 per day. Nearly 10 years after construction on the monorail began, the Phase-II corridor between Wadala and Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk was inaugurated on Sunday by CM Devendra Fadnavis and union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. Talking at the inauguration, they had said that Phase-II would help increase the ridership.

Few commuters
Services began on Monday, and as it was Shiv Ratra and a bank holiday, it was observed that majority of the commuters had come for a joyride. According to the figures given by MMRDA, the ridership along the entire corridor on Monday was 27, 619 and the revenue collected was Rs 5,19,936.