You finally might get some breathing room onboard the Metro. The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) has taken cognisance of overcrowding on the Ghatkopar-Andheri-Versova Metro and asked Mumbai Metro One Private Limited (MMOPL) to convert its four-car trains into six-car ones. "I have asked the MMOPL to convert its trains into six-car ones to increase capacity," MMRDA Commissioner R A Rajeev told mid-day.

On June 30, mid-day had highlighted this issue in a front-page report, stating that besides the trains being overcrowded, there were serpentine queues at its scanner machines. With the number of passengers crushed into limited space per square metre during peak hours, transport experts had unanimously agreed that the time had come for operators to elongate the rakes.