Mumbai opens monorail to ease traffic jam

MUMBAI, Feb 1:  India's financial capital unveiled its first monorail system on Saturday, a much-delayed project that aims to boost the city's creaking transport infrastructure and ease traffic on its notoriously congested roads. The first phase of the transit system, which opens to the public on Sunday, will ferry passengers in green, pink and blue carriages along an 8.8 kilometre (5.5 mile) stretch in the city's east, with the line expected to extend to about 20 kilometres in length and into south Mumbai next year.    — AFP