Bombay: Transport Infra in 2010

Here's a short rundown of all the transport infrastructure Bombay should expect to be completed this year:

• 5 Flyovers/Elevated Roads
• Hindmata Junction (already inaugurated)
• King's Circle
• Lalbaug
• Sahar Airport Elevated Road
• Suman Nagar
• 40-45 new 12-coach rakes (trains) for the suburban network (43 were delivered last year too)
• Rail bridge between Mahim and Bandra, with an additional pair of tracks from Santa Cruz to Mahim
• 1000 buses for BEST
• Terminal 1C at the Santa Cruz domestic airport
• Monorail between Jacob Circle (Lower Parel) and Wadala
• Second carriageway of the Bandra-Worli sea link

I might have missed a few flyovers, I suspect. The rate of infrastructure addition is much less than that of Delhi, of course, and possibly lags even those of Bangalore and Madras. But in the last two years, a visible momentum has built up, with the sea link and the domestic airport being the most conspicuous (albeit elitist) examples. I expect 2011 to be a banner year for progress with the commissioning of the 1st line of the 1st phase of the Bombay Metro and the extension of the Jacob Circle-Wadala monorail to Chembur. Then progress will become inexorable, like in Delhi after the completion of the early stages of its metro. After a rather dreadful 2000-2009 decade, 2010-2019 might just see Bombay's transport rejuvenation :)