Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
The newly registered Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC), the Noida regions own Rail Company is looking to follow the successful model of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) as Uttar Pradesh looks to propagate the metro rail presence across the state. NMRC will be wholly owned and funded by Noida and Greater Noida as Noida [...] 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 work of designing and giving consultation on the metro-project has been given to a French company–’Systra’ which excels in engineering the public transport infrastructure across the globe. The company carries around 50 years of experience and is already assisting the Faridabad metro line. While Systra is the design consultant, Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has [...] 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 »
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 »
Travelling within the NCR will become fast and smooth with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation constructing a 9.6km elevated track to Ghaziabad in December. What makes the alignment unique–apart from passing through congested roads and linking Old Ghaziabad with Kashmere Gate–is the way station buildings will be connected with the viaduct. To speed things up, a [...] 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 »
Just 83m downstream of the Nizamuddin road bridge, another bridge has come up on the Yamuna mirroring the location of its pillars exactly. For Delhi Metro, constructing the bridge to link Hazrat Nizamuddin with Mayur Vihar-I has been an exercise in replicating the existing road bridge. The idea was to align the pillars of the [...] Continue Reading »
