The crucial local train project linking Navi Mumbai and south Mumbai to Borivli in western suburbs is all set to begin in the new year. A three-km elevated stretch over Malad could be the possible solution to extend the existing harbour line which connects Panvel to Goregaon at present. An alignment survey of the project is expected to be complete by December 2021.

“I travel from Andheri to Panvel and it is a very convenient route, without having to change trains at Dadar or Thane. If the existing harbour line is extended all the way to Borivli, nothing like it,” said Shailesh Goyal of the Western Railway Zonal Users’ Consultative Committee.