Thane, Citizens and urban transport experts have strongly opposed the newly initiated Rs 12,200 crore Integrated Ring Metro project in Maharashtra's Thane city, terming it a "colossal waste of public money" and flagging fundamental planning and environmental flaws.
Demanding an immediate halt to all ongoing works pending an independent review, the Citizens for Sustainable Transport (CST-Thane) and the Thane Green Collective on Saturday slammed the 29-km project for creating route redundancies and bypassing dense residential pockets.
