Metro
Chennai – The construction of Chennai metro rail is slowly blocking the Ripon Buildings in the city. The metro authorities have not taken proper permission from government or Corporation Council in this regard. The Ripon Buildings is the seat of the Chennai corporation and is positioned near the Chennai central railway station. In 2010, State [...] Continue Reading »
Pune – The cost of two corridors of Pune metro has been revised and is increased by over Rs 2000 crore. It is because the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) delayed in approving this metro project in city. The Pune metro rail project will have two phases with two corridors each. Phase I corridors are Pimpri-Chinchwad-Swargate [...] Continue Reading »
Nagpur – Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) is preparing a development plan for Nagpur metro region and they will continue this for next 50 years. The surprising part is that NIT itself violated its plan by accepting layouts and building plans in the metro region. NIT presented a data in this regard to the board of [...] Continue Reading »
Kolkata – Although the Union Railway Minister announced no hike in fares of Kolkata metro but there are good indications from the board to restructure the fare. There is less than three weeks left to declare Railway Budget. Now it is entirely upon the railway minister to declare this by issuing a circular in the [...] Continue Reading »
Bahadurgarh- Bahadurgarh, known as the “Gateway of Haryana,” is expected to develop as the fourth National Capital Region (NCR) town and third city of Haryana to be connected with Delhi through Metro rail. Bahadurgarh is both a city and a municipal council located in Jhajjar, a district in the state of Haryana. Union urban development minister Kamal [...] Continue Reading »
Gandhinagar – The nodal agency for the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail project, MEGA (Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad) has still not utilized the budget provided last year. The nodal agency was provided an amount of Rs 500 crore. It has been ten months of the allocation and the rail project is facing extreme delays and [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- As time passes by, Chennai metro rail project is soon to reach its official deadline. As per plan initiated by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC), the Chennai metro rail phase I will be planned as two corridors. The First, starts from Washermenpet and ends at the Chennai International Airport covering a distance of [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi: Delhi’s troubled high-speed airport metro which was reopened last week will now run with full swing. The Airport Metro’s speed has been increased by 10 kmph. Earlier the trains on this line were allowed to run at a speed of 105 kmph. Owing to defects in the bearings supporting the track, in July 2012, the Airport [...] Continue Reading »
The North line of the Namma Metro between Sampige Road and Peenya will be taking more passengers, which comes in as a major relief for commuters, said Managing Director, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL). According to the statistics from the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), there were five lakh footfalls every day on public [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- As the work at Hyderabad metro is progressing, slowly all obstacles are getting eliminated. Currently the General Agreement Drawings (GAD) for all the eight metro rail crossings have been accepted by the Railway within time frame. This approval on time will automatically motivate the L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad (L&TMRH) to speed up more. Hyderabad [...] Continue Reading »
