Neural City Data Blog We compiled a year-by-year timeline of metro development across eight major Indian cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, and Ahmedabad. Update for Mumbai Metro (Oct 2025): The Line 3 final stretch from Acharya Atre to Cuffe Parade (~10.99 km) has since been inaugurated. While this extends Mumbai’s network to nearly 80 km, it does not materially change the comparative insights discussed in this post. For each city, we tracke

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