Delhi 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 »
Six infrastructure projects in Delhi and Gujarat have been listed among the 100 most innovative infrastructure projects in the World. The World Market Report which makes a list of the 100 most innovative infrastructure projects in the world has chosen 6 projects from India which includes some from Delhi and Gujarat. Of these are Delhi [...] 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 »
The congested Metro stations are soon going to make way for well-planned spaces that allow for smooth integration between vehicular, pedestrian and metro traffic. Years after the city government proposed converting Delhi Metro stations into multimodal spaces, the lieutenant governor on Thursday gave the go-ahead for turning 11 such Metro stations into integrated transport hubs. [...] 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 »
Construction on the Metro’s much-awaited Ghaziabad corridor is likely to start by December this year. Delhi Metro officials said tenders had already been called and several big companies had shown interest in constructing the line. The tenders will be opened on September 30. The extension of the Rithala Dilshad Garden Line, the 9.6-kilometre corridor up [...] Continue Reading »
The Rs 2,494-crore project to extend the Delhi Metro from Badarpur to YMCA Chowk in Faridabad has been delayed and services are now expected to begin in May 2015. A delegation of the Confederation of Resident Welfare Associations recently met Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) managing director Mangu Singh to seek adequate feeder and link [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has been approached by Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) – which operates under MTS brand – for providing free Wi-Fi Internet service to the Metro commuters. SSTL has earlier provided its Wi-Fi Internet service for the commuters of Rapid Metro Rail trains. The move – resulting from a partnership between [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi Metro said in a Tuesday announcement that it has completed the boring of two twin tunnels on the Janakpuri (West)-Botanical Garden corridor. The announcement implies that the work on Phase III is currently in full swing, in the wake of its approaching 2016 completion deadline. According to the announcement made by Delhi Metro, the [...] Continue Reading »
