Mumbai Metro Line-3 (Aqua Line), the city’s first fully underground metro corridor, began operations on Thursday, October 9. On Day 1 of operations, the corridor clocked 1,56,456 passengers. However, the launch of the Metro-3 line has had some negative impact on the ridership of some of the BEST bus routes operating from South Mumbai’s Backbay Depot.

The data shared by the BEST indicates that several bus routes in South Mumbai—particularly those running parallel to the newly operational Metro Line 3—witnessed a decline in passengers, with a drop in ridership and around 3,384 less passengers were recorded at Backbay/Colaba on October 9.