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New Delhi: The Commissioner for Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) is scheduled  to undergo inspection of newly completed stretch of Delhi Metro’s Pink Line between February 26 and 28 before a line is opened for public. Recently the trial runs on the 20.6 km-long Majlis Park-Durgabhai Deshmukh South Campus stretch of the upcoming line between Majlis Park and Shiv Vihar were “succesfully” conducted, and the section is awaiting safety clearance from the Commissioner for Metro Railway Safety (CMRS). According to Delhi Metro official, if the safety clearance received from CMRS then the section will be opened for public very soon. The stretch for safety inspection constitutes one-third of the entire 58 km-long line and has 12 stations including three interchange stations at Azadpur, Netaji Subhash Place and Rajouri Garden. Once the line is operational in April 2018 (as expected), a journey from South Campus to Vishwavidyalaya will take around 35 minutes with an interchange a...

New Delhi: The Commissioner for Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) is scheduled  to undergo inspection of newly completed stretch of Delhi Metro’s Pink Line between February 26 and 28 before a line is opened for public. Recently the trial runs on the 20.6 km-long Majlis Park-Durgabhai Deshmukh South Campus stretch of the upcoming line between Majlis Park and Shiv Vihar were “succesfully” conducted, and the section is awaiting safety clearance from the Commissioner for Metro Railway Safety (CMRS). According to Delhi Metro official, if the safety clearance received from CMRS then the section will be opened for public very soon. The stretch for safety inspection constitutes one-third of the entire 58 km-long line and has 12 stations including three interchange stations at Azadpur, Netaji Subhash Place and Rajouri Garden. Once the line is operational in April 2018 (as expected), a journey from South Campus to Vishwavidyalaya will take around 35 minutes with an interchange a...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today take a ride on Delhi Metro’s new Magenta Line connecting the capital with neighbouring Noida for the first time. A 12.6-km section of the line connects south Delhi’s Kalkaji and Noida’s Botanical Garden. PM Modi, in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath , will flag off the new metro from Noida and travel to the Okhla Bird Sanctuary station. The launch has been shadowed by sparring over Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal not being invited. Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party has ripped into the central government, accusing it of excluding Mr Kejriwal over political differences. PM Narendra Modi on Metro Ride Here are some special features of this section: Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line at Noida’s Botanical Garden station, a new route that is expected to reduce travel time between Noida and south Delhi by 45 minutes. The 12.64km long section is a part of the Botanical Garden (Noida)-Janakpuri ...

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) completed construction of long waited Mundka – Bahadurgarh corridor. The trial runs on metro train in this stretch is set to begin in December. After commissioning of the 11-km-long corridor from West Delhi will make Ballabgarh the third Haryana township in the metros fold, after Gurgaon and Faridabad. The corridor, which is an extension of the Inderlok- Mundka Green Line (Line 5), is scheduled to be commissioned in June 2018. According to the sources, the stretch will be covered in hardly 45 minutes. However, it may be delayed if the Haryana Urban Development Authority fails to provide land to the DMRC for laying tracks till a new depot which is coming up at Ballabgarh. Regardless of that, trial runs on the Haryana portion of the corridor will begin in December. Trials on the rest of the section from Mundka is expected in January. The corridor, being constructed as part of the DMRC’s Phase III project, will have a total of...

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) today started full signaling trials on a 20 kilometre long stretch between Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus (near Dhaula Kuan) and Majlis Park on the upcoming Majlis Park – Shiv Vihar corridor of Delhi Metro’s Pink Line. These trials will... Click here to see more https://goo.gl/6TkLu1

New Delhi: This December, Delhi Metro is going to open its first section of the Pink Line(Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar), a 20.6km-long corridor, which will function like an arc connecting north, northwest, west and south Delhi. The remaining stretch of 58.5km will be commissioned by March next... Click here to see more https://goo.gl/bEXpw1

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation "s latest project which is said to connect North and West Delhi with South and East Delhi is stuck over land acquisition and rehabilitation of affected people in Trilokpuri. The project is supposed to be Delhi’s longest Metro line 58.6 Km long and connect the Mukundpur-Shiv Vihar corridor , but it will now operate in two segments because of the land acquisition issues. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has to rehabilitate over 108 residents but it is falling short of land. Only 66 families can be accommodated on the allotted plot. DMRC has requested the Delhi government for more land but the process will take time, this delays the construction of the metro line and will now be complete only in 2018. DMRC chief Mangu Singh in relation to the problem said “In Trilokpuri ,we are not able to accommodate all these people on the piece of land the government has given to us .This is because the available land for the dwellings has redu...

New Delhi: An advanced signalling system which will run in sync with the platform screen doors and help reduce frequency and increase safety standards has delayed the opening of new lines on phase 3 of Delhi Metro . Slated to open by March 2017, the Botanical Garden and Kalkaji Mandir section of the Botanical Garden-Janakpuri West line will now be launched ahead of Diwali on October 19, 2017. Trial runs between Botanical Garden and Kalkaji Mandir had started on October 27, 2016 last year but testing of the new signalling system led to delay despite the construction work being completed by May. Mangu Singh, chief of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), called the delay a ‘setback’ but he was confident of making the section operational by October. “We really had a little setback as last year we started trial runs. We were anticipating it but the new signalling system has taken more time than anticipated. We were expecting this line to be operational by March, so there ...

New Delhi: With the completion of Phase III of the Delhi Metro , the city will have as many as 27 interchanging stations, three times the existing number of 9. The new Pink line, which is expected to be fully operational by March 2018, will also increase the total distance covered by the Metro to 348 km. The Pink Line , that will run from Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar and cover 38 stations, will have Azadpur, Netaji Subhash Place, and South Campus as interchanging stations. Commuters on the Orange Line (Airport Express) travelling from New Delhi Railway Station to Dwarka 21 will be able to interchange at INA and Lajpat Nagar. Similarly, for the Magenta Line between Janakpuri (West) and Botancial Garden, apart from these two terminating points, Hauz Khas and Kalkaji Mandir will also facilitate changing of trains for different lines. Mayur Vihar, Phase 1, Anand Vihar, Karkardooma and Welcome will serve as interchanging stations for the Violet Line. The total number of stations after Phase II...

New Delhi: In an attempt to tackle passenger rush, a major expansion is on the cards for Delhi Metro with plans to increase the number of trains from 227 at present to 328 by March 2018. The network will also expand from 218km to 348km, with its Phase 3 project almost finished now. Two upcoming corridors – Magenta Line (Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden) and Pink Line (Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar) – will be commissioned in parts by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) from this October . The two lines will also be fully operational by March next year. Not only will the number of trains jump by 45%, 690 new coaches will also be added to the current 1,468. Out of these, 504 will be used for the Magenta and Pink Lines, and the 6-coach trains will be converted into 8-coach ones to accommodate more people. Since the Blue Line (Dwarka Sector 21 to Noida City Centre/Vaishali) is the network’s busiest, it will get the most number of trains, apart from having nine...

New Delhi: Delhi Metro commuters can now cheer as work is on to make Lajpat Nagar Metro station, in South Delhi, the second biggest interchange station of the Delhi Metro network. So far, Kashmere Gate on the Red Line (Dilshad Garden-Rithala) is the biggest interchange with three metro lines crisscrossing here, and hence having the highest number of commuters. Currently, work on Lajpat Nagar Metro station is at Phase-III. By October 2017, the Pink Line (Majlis Park to Lajpat Nagar) will be open. Between Majlis Park and Lajpat Nagar, there will be 18 metro stations, proving to be a boon for commuters. Post October, work will begin for Phase IV. The project will have three lines intersecting at this station, making it one of the busiest stations in Delhi. "In Phase-IV Lajpat Nagar will be connected to the Yellow Line Huda City Centre - Samaypur Badli). The new 7.96 km corridor between Lajpat Nagar and Saket G-block will begin. This will in total make three lines meeting at this stat...

The Delhi Metro’s Phase III, an ambitious public transport intervention, will be almost fully operational by March 2018, bringing vast areas of the national capital into the fold of its fast expanding network. Stretches of the Pink and Magenta Lines, which will together measure over 90 km with 61 stations, will be thrown open starting this October and the entire corridors will be functional by next year. The 58-km-long Pink Line, which will connect Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar running along the arterial ring road that encircles the city, will be opened in stages between December 2017 and March 2018, according to the latest Phase III status report. However, a section of the corridor between Nizamuddin and IP Extension in East Delhi may not be operational by March as it is stuck due to issues pertaining to land acquisition. “The date for Nizamuddin to IP Extension section will be worked out after resettlement and rehabilitation issues at Trilokpuri are settled,” the report ...