The monorail may have failed on many fronts, but it must be revived to save taxpayers' money

Introduced to Mumbai amidst much fanfare as the country's first monorail in February 2014, the project was once called a toy train by the city, because it turned out that the people used it for amusement rides rather than a regular commute. An ill-designed route still makes us wonder as to whom the planners had in their mind as target commuters. Did they think of influential builders who wanted their real estate projects to get a fancy monorail tag to boost sales?