Pune Metro | Maha Metro to begin a part of metro corridor for public in 2018
Pune: The Pune Metro service could begin operating in parts of Corridor One within a year, officials from Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MAHA-Metro) said on Wednesday. Officials cited the example of the Metro service in Nagpur, where they managed to carry out a test within 27 months of starting work on the project. “… Pune Metro will be marked in the next year, or in a little over a year,” said Brijesh Dixit, general director of MAHA-Metro. Last week, Dixit had said that work at Pune Metro was progressing at a faster pace than work at Nagpur Metro. Reiterating the statement, Dixit said that the elevated part of Corridor 1 – a distance of approximately 6 km from Pimpri to Dapodi- faced few obstacles such as land acquisition, so MAHA-Metro could complete the work faster. “For the same distance in Nagpur, we could start the test in 27 months … the real operations are probably going to start soon. Since the work in Pune Metro is taking plac...