Bhakti Park monorail station

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monorail station
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General information
Coordinates 19°01′45″N72°52′39″E / 19.029072°N 72.877532°E / 19.029072; 72.877532
Owned by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA)
Line(s) Line 1
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeElevated
ParkingNo
Bicycle facilitiesNo
History
Opened2 February 2014 (2014-02-02)
Passengers
2014700 daily [1]
Services
Preceding station Mumbai Monorail Following station
Mysore Colony
towards Chembur
Line 1 Wadala Depot
towards Jacob Circle
Location
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Bhakti Park
Location within Mumbai

Bhakti Park is a monorail station on Line 1 of the Mumbai Monorail serving the Bhakti Park housing colony in the Wadala area of Mumbai, India. It was opened to the public on 2 February 2014, as part of the first phase of Line 1. [2]

The station will also be an interchange for the upcoming fourth line of the Mumbai Metro. [3] In 2018, an affidavit was filed in the Bombay High Courtstating that the station was among four that did not receive the requisite clearances from the Mumbai Fire Brigade and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. [4] [5]

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References

  1. "A year on, Monorail notches up a milestone of 50 lakh riders".
  2. "India's first Monorail rolls out in city". The Indian Express . Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. "Detailed Project Report for Line 4". MMRDA. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  4. "Mumbai: Four Monorail stations built without proper permission". Free Press Journal. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  5. "'Monorail stations built on four roads without BMC nod'". Mumbai Mirror. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.