‘Mumbai metro is must’, Big B backs Aarey metro line

The Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Mumbai Metro decided to make its way through city’s Aarey colony and there it all started! Ever since the decision to start, the Mumbai Metro project has been in news for all the possible reasons, to save trees, cease infrastructural evolution amidst and more. But this time the colony and the Metro project is again in the prints for some positive grounds.

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Deflating the heat of controversial kick built around the Aarey colony and to save the greenery there, Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday moved up sharing an emotional incident of his friend who was to move to a hospital and opted to travel by Metro instead of a car. The speedy, convenient, efficient mode of travel was a good choice, saving life.

“Friend of mine had a medical emergency. Decided to take METRO instead, came back very impressed. Said was faster, convenient and most efficient”, he tweeted. Further sharing a simple solution to pollution he urged the masses to plant more trees in the surrounding, informing that he had already done so.

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While some environmentalists oppose saying that the metro should not be developed to save trees, Bachchan’s tweet reflects a efficacious note of the said Metro project.

Earlier, in a series of tweet with an hashtag of #AareyAikaNa the Managing Director last week had swiftly listed the facts and truth behind the infrastructural development and how the government has channelized the project so to not harm the environment.

The Maharashtra government aided by Centre has shown impressive progress when it comes to this Metro project. Interestingly, the Mumbai Metro will also solve problems like reducing vehicular traffic which the metro will de-clogs the roads and it shall reduce CO2emission by 2.6 lakh metric tons every year.

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Further, an important point to note remains that the Aarey Colony in 1287 Hectare and that out of the total, the metro car shed will be only built on 30 Hectare and even within that 5 Hectare is slated to be kept intact for greenery. So, in a nutshell, only 2 per cent area of the entire Aarey Colony will be utilized for the proposed metro car shed.

COURTESY:- NEWS BHARATI