Metro
The ‘Infrastructure 100: World Class Markets Report’included Delhi Metro amongst its prestigious list of projects that have been deemed to qualify world class standards of innovation. Apart from the Delhi Metro, the Yamuna Expressway was also amongst the list of 100 most innovative infrastructures in the world which is a prestigious nomination for the projects. [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Metro rail project accomplished one of its significant landmarks as it managed to complete work on the underground tunnel on the Shenoy Nagar-Thirumangalam stretch. The 2.797km long, was completed a couple of days ago while work is on for completing a second parallel tunnel for the project. The significance of the underground tunnel [...] Continue Reading »
The Metro viaduct that is located in between the South Campus and Delhi Cantt Metro stations of the under-construction 59-km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor is being looked at as a major engineering achievement for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), as the viaduct will be constructed without hampering the movement of trains on the Airport [...] Continue Reading »
German bank, KFW, keen to finance up to Rs 4,500 crore for Phase-2. Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), the agency implementing the metro rail project in Bangalore, is likely to miss yet another deadline for the completion of first phase of the project. The 42.3-km stretch of Phase-1 will now be completed only by [...] Continue Reading »
L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Limited and the Telangana Government are on a collision course regarding the Rs 14,132 crore metro rail project, with the former even suggesting that the State take over the project. Contending that the project viability is being challenged by delays in securing clearances having a huge impact on the project financial [...] Continue Reading »
As the Vizag metro rail project gathers steam, most of the environmentalists in the city consider the upcoming project to be a bane rather than a boon. Though a few feel it would emerge as the best mode of eco-friendly future transport that would cut vehicular pollution by bringing down the number of vehicles on [...] Continue Reading »
A year after starting the tendering process for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro, billed to be the country’s longest underground Metro rail corridor, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has now finalised a list of nine consortia eligible for financial bidding after scrutinising pre-qualification tenders. Intending to finalise contracts and start work by the year-end, the MMRC [...] Continue Reading »
The urban development minister‘s plan of keeping Delhi Metro fares down by generating revenue through property development could be a non-starter. More than a decade after starting services, Delhi Metro has generated a little over Rs 900 crore against a target of over Rs 2,500 crore. More than Rs 700 crore of that revenue was [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi Metro is rushing to complete the tunnelling work for its two new corridors as now it has to abide by the deadline of 2016. This news will give some sigh of relief to the Delhiites as on Wednesday, the DMRC announced that the tunnelling work between Netaji Subhash Place and Shalimar Bagh on the [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has revealed, in response to an RTI (Right to Information) query that most of its Metro connectivity hubs in Noida are still at a planning stage. This is due to the fact that the approvals and fund allocation from the Centre is still pending. Unfortunately the hopes of Noida [...] Continue Reading »
