By the time you read this article on Monday morning, the country's first-ever monorail project should have had some commercial runs on its full corridor between Chembur and Jacob Circle. Considering the 20 deadlines that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has missed to run the first and second leg together, and its experience in the past five years operating the first phase of 8.26 km between Chembur and Wadala, which kicked off in February 2014, let's wish the operators good luck for a glitch-free and safe ride for commuters.

The MMRDA has pinned its hopes on the pilot project in terms of easing commuter woes in the localities where traffic is horrific and connectivity to public transport absent. Having his doubts in the previous regime's feeder project, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ensured that the monorail was put on track. He is the second CM after Prithviraj Chavan to inaugurate its different phases. Chavan had opened the first leg ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Fadnavis too kept the elections on his mind while getting the second phase of 11.28km started.