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On April 16, 1853, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway ran the first passenger train in India and Asia, carrying about 400 guests roughly 34km from Bombay's Bori Bunder to Thane.

Leopold Cafe was founded in Colaba in 1871 by Irani immigrants, part of the wave of Zoroastrian cafes that shaped how Bombay eats out, and has outlasted almost all of them. It became a fixture for travellers along the Causeway, and was one of the sites attacked in November 2008 - it reopened days afterwards and kept the bullet marks in its walls.

Mumbai opened the first phase of its Coastal Road, an eight-lane highway built on reclaimed land and sea-facing tunnels along the Arabian Sea.

The last 10.99 km stretch, from Acharya Atre Chowk to Cuffe Parade, opened to passengers and completed the 33.5 km Aqua Line, Mumbai's first fully underground metro with 27 stations. The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation's managing director put the line's completion cost at about 30,000 crore rupees.

Built on flattened hills and stabilised mangrove swamp across the harbour from central Mumbai, Adani Group's Navi Mumbai International Airport began commercial flights on Christmas Day 2025.

Chembur station opened on the Line 2B branch of the Yellow Line, taking the operational section to six stations after the first 5.8 km from Diamond Garden to Mandale started carrying passengers in April 2026. The station sits roughly 200 metres from Chembur suburban railway station and about 100 metres from the monorail, making it a three-mode interchange; Line 2B as a whole is estimated to cost 10,986 crore rupees.

The 4.5 km four-lane elevated road ties the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link at Sewri to the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and the Coastal Road at Worli, crossing the Central and Western Railway lines near Prabhadevi on a double-decker structure whose lower deck replaces the 112-year-old Elphinstone road over bridge, closed to traffic in September 2025.

India's first high-speed line, 508 km of Japanese Shinkansen technology cutting the Mumbai to Ahmedabad trip to about two hours. Estimated date.

The 17.17 km link, whose main span is a 9.8 km eight-lane bridge over the Arabian Sea with four connectors at Bandra, Carter Road, Juhu and Versova, carries the coastal road north from the Bandra-Worli Sea Link to Versova. About 30 per cent of the work was done by early 2026 and the cost has been revised twice, to 18,120.96 crore rupees in 2024.