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Mumbai: Mumbai residents have decided to on the poll issue they will target the government ahead of 2019 elections. Over 10 lakh residents, a sizable vote bank have come together and have made it clear that they will use Metro 2B line as a poll issue. A meeting was organized on Sunday in which residents from Juhu, Bandra, Santacruz, and Khar assembled at  Jamnabai Narsee School in JVPD. They met to work out a plan involving auto rickshaw and taxi unions as well as Advanced Locality Management (ALMs) and residents’ groups in their movement. The bone of contention is the long-standing demand for an underground Metro 2B line. This will start from DN Nagar in Andheri to Mandela in Mankhurd via Bandra. Residents have made it clear that they will take it up as a key issue during the upcoming 2019 elections. The residents have threatened that they are pledging to exercise NOTA (none of the above) option if their demand is not accepted by the government. The residents of the western...

Mumbai: Restriction placed by Bombay High Court on Mumbai Metro work on Metro 3 might lead to an estimated loss of Rs 6,100. As per the orders metro work cannot be carried out from 10 pm to 6am – the ban is on late night construction. This ensued after a complaint from Cuffe Parade residents. The ban has resulted in a loss of nine-month delay in work. The officials feel that if the ban is imposed for three more months, the project is likely to run in losses.  A projected annual loss comes around Rs 6,133 crore to the economy as per the experts associated with underground Mumbai Metro rail project. As per the plan the Colaba-bandra-Seepz Metro 3 corridor construction comes to over Rs 23,000. The project is taken by Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC). The website of MMRC shows the detailed project report that indicates the costs that would be saved via operation new line. These are the FIRR (financial internal rate of return) and EIRR (environmental internal rate of return)...

Chennai: When Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has flagged of the Thirumangalam and Nehru Park metro rail , the officials had promised to offer mobile connectivity. This service was to be made available for the underground stretch, but a year has passed by and Chennai Metro commuters are still waiting for the promise to be fulfilled. There is still no mobile connectivity at the underground stretch. CMRL officials had assured that they have installed mobile transmitters and connectivity at underground metro stations will be established by end by February. But there is no glimmer of hope as May is about to end and there is no sign of the services to start soon. Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) completed safety inspection of Chennai Metro Underground Section. Commuters have to suffer as they are not able to use their mobile phones when travelling through underground stretch using Chennai Metro. CMRL officials have been assuring that they are conducting test runs to see how th...

Chennai: The ambitious and first underground metro station stretch in Chennai Metro is most likely to be other stations on Anna Salai. It was last year the project was kick started for the Thirumangalam and Nehru Park via Poonamallee High Road stretch, now the CMRL officials post inspection would soon open other stations on route together with a part of Central Metro as well as stations on Anna Salai. CMRS completed safety inspection of Chennai Metro It was on Monday that the first leg of inspections of these lines was started by the commissioner of metro rail safety. If the inspection reports are satisfactory, the routes will get a go-ahead by the CMRL officials. CMRL further informed that they will unlock metro rail stretches from Nehru Park to Central Metro and Little Mount to AG-DMS before the end of this month. CMRS completed safety inspection of Chennai Metro Underground Section The inspection was started by the commission of railway safety (CRS), under the ministry of civil avi...

Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has completed approximately 15-16 percent of the civil construction for 33.5km of the 33-tunnel underground corridor. Work on the longest tunnel corridor in the country began in November 2016. The first tunnel boring machine (TBM), called Krishna 1, started tunneling from the Nayanagar near Dharavi on November 9 and has now drilled 120 meters. Meanwhile, six other TBMs, lowered in different parts of the city, have combined 394 meter tunnels so far. 17 TBMs will operate 15 to 25 meters below ground to drill 51 km of tunnels . Mumbai Metro-3 Tunneling Work Like Krishna, the TBMs in each of the seven packages are named after a river in Maharashtra: Surya, Vaitarna, Tanasa, Godavari, Tapi and Wainganga. Each package has at least two and no more than three TBM in operation. “It’s better to refer to the machines with names with numbers because they are more identifiable. It’s a more personal connection with machines when they...

Mumbai: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has completed approximately 15-16 percent of the civil construction for 33.5km of the 33-tunnel underground corridor. Work on the longest tunnel corridor in the country began in November 2016. The first tunnel boring machine (TBM), called Krishna 1, started tunneling from the Nayanagar near Dharavi on November 9 and has now drilled 120 meters. Meanwhile, six other TBMs, lowered in different parts of the city, have combined 394 meter tunnels so far. 17 TBMs will operate 15 to 25 meters below ground to drill 51 km of tunnels . Mumbai Metro-3 Tunneling Work Like Krishna, the TBMs in each of the seven packages are named after a river in Maharashtra: Surya, Vaitarna, Tanasa, Godavari, Tapi and Wainganga. Each package has at least two and no more than three TBM in operation. “It’s better to refer to the machines with names with numbers because they are more identifiable. It’s a more personal connection with machines when they...