On a day full of decisions related to public transport in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (BEST) on Wednesday announced its first-ever bus route on India`s longest sea link—the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), officially called the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri–Nhava Sheva Atal Setu  starting tomorrow.

Also, the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) announced free rides for senior citizens and a 50 per cent discount for women commuters, and the Maharashtra cabinet approved the proposed name change of eight Mumbai suburban stations. The state government on Wednesday also decided to merge public transport bodies in the MMR into a single transport body. The BEST has finalised bus route S-145 in sync with the Chalo app to be the first public transport bus service operating on the Atal Setu.