Land acquisition for Surat Metro Rail to be initiated soon

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Land acquisition for Surat Metro Rail to be initiated soon

SURAT (Metro Rail News): Surat Municipal Commissioner M Thennarasan was appointed Executive Director of Surat Metro Rail Corporation (SMRC) on Thursday at a high-level meeting organised in Gandhinagar. He said land acquisition for the project would be initiated soon.

Principal Secretary Mukesh Puri, officials of the Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation and SMC Commissioner Thennnarasan discussed how to speed up the project and prioritise the works at the meeting.

SMC Commissioner Thennarasan said that to execute the work, we have fixed priorities. We first have to open an office for the Surat Metro Rail project and later we have to execute the plan. On the basis of a Detailed Project Report, which has been approved by the Central government, we have done a survey of the areas and lands to be acquired. In the coming days, we will start acquiring the land first from Dream City to Kadarshah naal and later in other areas. We will organise weekly meetings with officials of the metro rail corporation to review the work completed and decide what is left and how to do it.

The Surat Metro Rail project will be carried out in two phases. In the first phase, an area of around 21.61 kilometers from Sarthana to Dream city in Khajod will be completed and the second phase area will cover around 18.74 kilometers from Bhesan near Jehangirpura to Saroli.

Around seven kilometers of the first phase will be underground, and on the elevated corridor, there will be 20 metro stations. The second phase would be completely elevated with 18 stations, sources said. Tenders will be floated in the coming days to select consultancy firm for the project.

The metro rail project is expected to benefit lakhs of people. It would reduce air pollution from vehicles and traffic congestion if more people used the metro. Thennarasan said metro stations will be linked to city and BRTS bus services to provide streamlined connectivity to commuters.

Hyderabad Metro found wanting in first and last-mile connectivity

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Hyderabad Metro found wanting in first and last-mile connectivity

HYDERABAD (Metro Rail News): The Hyderabad Metro Rail project still lacks an efficient first and last-mile connectivity and a common ticket for different commutes even as it sees a steady rise in passengers with the number inching towards three-lakh mark every day.

Once the Raidurg station on Corridor 3 gets operational, trains with better frequency would ensure more passengers to hop in and ease crowd pressure during peak hours, but a lot more effort is needed to make the first and last-mile connectivity towards metro stations reliable and affordable.

Shuttle services are being run by some firms at Hi-Tec City and Durgam Cheruvu stations, while the L&T Metro Rail is running them from stations like Secunderabad East, Tarnaka, Mettuguda, and others. Yet, these are either insufficient or the frequency of 15-30 minutes is not working out if passengers reactions are anything to go by.

Kusuma, an IT professional who was traveling from Begumpet said that I have shifted back to MMTS, which is less-crowded and also convenient to get transport from the railway station to my office at Kondapur. Metro ride was comfortable, but after alighting at Hi-Tec City, it is a nightmare to get into shuttle bus or shared auto-rickshaws packed to capacity.

The most heard comment was Unless you share the auto, the fare is flat ₹50 or ₹100 at metro stations to travel to nearby offices or residences. Kalpana, a banking professional, thinks it is more convenient to take a shared cab from Mahendra Hills to Jubilee Hills Check Post than travel in metro.

She said that commute by auto or cab to Parade Grounds station from home and again to the office from Jubilee Hills Check Post metro station is more than double the metro ticket fare. It is more convenient to take a shared cab with my colleagues. Or take the case of Murthy, a private sector employee, commuting to Begumpet from Bandlaguda.

He changes two buses or shared autos to reach Nagole/Uppal metro station spending ₹40 in either direction.

Those sharing a cab shell out about ₹50-₹80 per head to catch the metro rail moving towards Ameerpet and from onward to Hi-Tec City. Mr. Murthy said that we have an RTC depot in the vicinity, but after a couple of months of shuttle services, they were withdrawn.

Prashant M. who was travelling from Hi-Tech City to DLF tweeted that time travelled in the metro is being wasted waiting for half-hour shuttle service every day. And, the promise of a common ticket for use through metro, auto, cabs, bus, and train could have prevented unfettered fare rip-offs, but it is not in sight.

Jaipur Metro phase-II project back on track

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Jaipur Metro phase-II project back on track

JAIPUR (Metro Rail News): The state budget has given a major push to infrastructure projects in the state capital as the government moved a step ahead to launch the Jaipur Metro phase-II project and set up the India International Centre, which was ignored by the previous BJP regime.

 In his budget speech, chief minister Ashok Gehlot announced that the state would prepare a revised detailed project report (DPR) for the Rs 13,000-crore Jaipur Metro-II project proposed between Ambabari and Sitapura.

The state government has appointed the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for preparing a revised DPR. The project estimates that 4,05,065 passengers will use the metro in 2026 if the project is commissioned.

“The Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC) had prepared its first DPR in 2011 during Congress government’s tenure. However, nothing much was done to launch the project after the change in the regime as the project was capital intensive.

Now, the project is expected to be launched at state’s expenditure with Centre’s support,” a Metro official said.

Other than the Metro, the CM also allocated Rs 20 crore for the India International Centre in Jaipur. This project will be similar to the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.

The BJP government had refused to provide funds for the Jaipur International Centre project, which started during the Ashok Gehlot’s tenure in 2013. In the absence of funds, the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has invited proposals from private players to develop hotels and guest houses on the premises. Now, the Congress government has again given a fresh lease of life to the project.

Gehlot also announced to set up Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Jaipur with a budget of Rs 50 crore. The CM has also announced setting up of Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Jaipur, and Rs 10 crore to set up a career counseling center in the state capital.

Korean company withdraws from Vizag metro project

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Korean company withdraws from Vizag metro project

Visakhapatnam (Metro Rail News): The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) has conveyed their inability to extend the financial assistance for the nearly Rs 8,300 crore Vizag metro rail project. Replying to an unstarred question in Parliament, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the state government was therefore advised to award the project to other bilateral/multilateral agencies if desired.

The state government has planned to allocate 250 acres of land to Amaravati Metro Rail Corporation (AMRC), apart from the land needed for the project, to commercially develop it and use the revenue earned from it to repay the loan from the funding agency.

The proposed borrowing from external funding agencies is towards the investment of the 52% share of the state government in the project. The state government will give a sovereign guarantee for the loan on behalf of the AMRC. After the official export credit agency of South Korea showed its interest in financing the project, the TDP government had initiated discussions with it and was about to conclude the process.
But with this new development, the state government will have to look for a new lender if they want to take the project forward.

Apart from the financing aspect, there are several doubts over the future of the project as the new state government has asked officials to put all projects on the planning stage on hold for the time being.

As per the predetermined schedule, the name of the successful bidder of the metro project should have been announced even before the general elections.

According to sources, the metro officials have to first apprise the state government of all the developments of the metro project and tendering process

Sarai Kalen Khan RRTS station to become India’s first mega transit hub

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Sarai Kalen Khan RRTS station to become India’s first mega transit hub

NEW DELHI (Metro Rail News): On Wednesday an official said that the Sarai Kalen Khan RRTS station is going to become country’s first mega transit hub as three Regional Rapid Transit System corridors will converge at it. 

The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) is planning to converge the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut, Delhi-Gurugram-SNB-Alwar and Delhi-Panipat RRTS corridors at the station. 

According to officials, the trains will run at an average speed of 100 kmph on RRTS corridors, and the system will provide convenient commuter movement and encourage people to use public transport. 

The official said that the station will also be integrated with the Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station, the Delhi Metro’s Sarai Kale Khan station and the Sarai Kale Khan ISBT. These will make the Sarai Kalen Khan RRTS station India’s first mega transit hub, he said. 

The NCRTC, which is the implementing agency of the RRTS, is planning to develop several multi-modal integrations along the high-speed corridors.

The official said in view of high-passenger flow at the Sarai Kalen Khan RRTS station, the NCRTC has planned that it will have separate platforms for boarding and de-boarding from trains as the doors will open on both sides. 

The “unique system” will help in optimizing passenger flow and facilitate convenient commuter movement, he said. 

When commuters are provided seamless integration with different public transport modes, it encourages them to leave their private vehicles behind.”We have planned the network keeping demand and commuter convenience in mind” said Sudhir Kumar Sharma, NCRTC’s Chief Public Relation Officer. 

The RRTS trains will have a design speed of 180 kmph while the operational speed will be 160 kmph. The average speed will be of 100 kmph. Trains will be available every five to 10 minutes. 

TheDelhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor will have 22 stations and two depot-cum-stations at Duhai and Modipuram. The distance will be covered in around 55 minutes. 

An official stated that the construction work on the 17-km long prioritised section between Sahibabad and Duhai of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor is in full swing and piers and viaducts will be visible soon. 

While this part of the corridor will become operational by March 2023, the commercial operations on the entire Delhi-Meerut corridor will commence by 2025, the official said. 

Last month, the Rajasthan government had approved the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the Delhi-Gurugram-SNB ((Shahjahanpur-Neemrana-Behror Urban Complex) corridor — the first phase of the Delhi-Alwar rapid rail project. 

800 people arrested in crackdown against spurious water sold in trains

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800 people arrested in crackdown against spurious water sold in trains

NEW DELHI (Metro Rail News): On Wednesday, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that more than 800 people have been nabbed and 48,860 bottles recovered after a major crackdown against spurious mineral water being sold in trains.

“A major crackdown on those who sell spurious mineral water was carried out at over 300 places. More than 800 persons, including manager of 4 pantry cars, were arrested and 48,860 bottles recovered” said Union Minister Shri Piyush Goyal in Tweet Goyal.

He further said that the action was taken on the complaints filed by the passengers.

Piyush Goyal last month said that the railways have no plans to privatize the national transporter or its premium trains such as Rajdhani and Shatabdi express, amidst speculation that there was a proposal to rope in private operators. Responding to a query on the privatization of these trains and the entire network, Goyal told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that “no plan has been made”.

The ministry in its 100-day plan has proposed that it will offer two trains to IRCTC, to operate on haulage concept, with ticketing, onboard services to be provided by them. The plan proposed that the trains will run on important routes like the Golden Quadrilateral and Diagonals and connecting major cities. The proposal said that the RFQ/RFP will be floated in the next 100 days to initiate bidding.

“Whether it is a fact that Government is planning for the privatization of trains like Rajdhani and Shatabdi; In what manner Government would control the whimsicality of the private operators and travel fare after the privatization of Railways,” asked Samajwadi Party MP Surendra Nath Nagar. Goyal replied, “No plan has been made for the privatization of Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains.

There is no plan for privatization of Railways.” Meanwhile, railway worker Unions have been up in arms against the proposal and demanded to know why railways’ production units are planned to be corporatized. In the 100-day proposal, the railways have also proposed to hive off its seven production units and associated workshops into a new entity called the Indian Railway Rolling Stock Company.

Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor gets Rs 974 crore in budget 2019

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Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor gets Rs 974 crore in budget 2019

Delhi (Metro Rail News): According to NCRTC, the 82-km long Delhi-Meerut rapid rail corridor, which is the first corridor prioritized for implementation in the RRTS project, will bring down the travel time between Delhi and Meerut to 55 minutes.

FM Nirmala Sitharamam presented the Union Budget 2019 on July 5, the Modi 2.0 government has allocated a sum of Rs 974.25 crore for the regional rapid transit system (RRTS). This has been administered to the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), which is the nodal implementing organization of the RRTS project.

The RRTS project will be made operational across Delhi and the national capital region. According to NCRTC the 82-km long Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut rapid rail corridor, the very first corridor prioritized for implementation in the RRTS project, will bring down the travel time between Delhi and Meerut to just 55 minutes.

FM Sitharam said in Budget 2019 speech that, as the suburban train services of Indian Railways are becoming a major booster for increasing regional connectivity in big cities like Mumbai, Delhi, therefore the national transporter will be determined to invest more on the suburban railway system through the special purpose vehicle (SPV) structures like the RRTS project, proposed for the Delhi-Meerut route.

The RRTS project is a rail-based high-speed transit commuter system which will provide seamless connectivity, reducing pollution as well as congestion across the national capital and the regional nodes of the NCR. Under Phase-1 of the RRTS project of NCRTC,

The three rapid rail corridors have been proposed to be implemented on priority that are 82-km long Delhi-Ghaziabad Meerut corridor, which will cover the distance between the two cities in 55 minutes, the 103-km long Delhi-Sonipat-Panipat corridor, which is expected to bring down the travel time between Delhi and Panipat in just 65 minutes and the third 164 km long Delhi-Gurugram-Rewari-Alwar corridor which will be implemented in three stages, namely: Delhi–Gurugram to SNB (Shahjahanpur-Neemrana-Behror) Urban Complex, SNB Urban Complex to Sotanala and then from SNB Urban Complex to Alwar.

Recently, the Delhi-Gurugram-Alwar RRTS corridor has received the approval of Rajasthan government on the detailed project report (DPR) of the Delhi-Gurugram-SNB rapid rail corridor, which is the first phase to be constructed for the Delhi-Gurugram-Alwar RRTS network. The Delhi-Gurugram-SNB corridor will be able to reduce travel time between Delhi and SNB area to just 70 minutes.

Japan unveils 1st battery-powered bullet train

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Japan unveils 1st battery-powered bullet train

NAGOYA (Metro Rail News): Central Japan Railway Co. conducted a test run Wednesday for the press of its new Shinkansen bullet train powered by batteries, a first among the world’s high-speed trains.

JR Central said it hopes the technology will be useful in emergencies which might otherwise leave trains stranded in tunnels or on bridges during an extended power outage. The battery-powered shinkansen would be able to proceed on its own to the nearest station.

The N700S train, to be debuted in July 2020, is able to carry batteries on the underside of its carriages due to the reduced size of other technology and equipment.

The test run was held for media at a railyard in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Pune metro will have key distinctive features: Brijesh Dixit

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Pune metro will have key distinctive features: Brijesh Dixit

MAHARASHTRA (Metro Rail News): Brijesh Dixit is the managing director of the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (Maha-Metro)

The metropolis of Pune has indeed become my karma bhoomi. As managing director of Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Maha-Metro), I am heading the team which is committed to the time and within cost completion of the Pune metro rail project. Once completed, the project is destined to become a lifeline of Punekars.

Pune metro unmistakably seeks to reverse the trend of severe traffic congestion and pollution by providing a safe, secure, convenient, comfortable, affordable, inclusive and environment-friendly solution to the vexed and rapidly worsening urban transport problem bedeviling Punekars.

Project cost

The Pune metro project developed by Maha-Metro is constructed at a total cost of ₹11,420 crore with equity funding in equal proportion from the government of India and the Maharashtra government. It is worth noting that both the municipal corporations of the city — Pune, and Pimpri-Chinchwad — have come forward with sizable grants to ensure timely completion of the project. The debt funding for the project is provided by AFD, the French funding agency.

Overview

The state-of-the-art modern metro rail system with a designed speed of 80 kmph, having modern signaling and telecommunication system and modern metro cars, is constructed as a two corridor project totaling 31.25 km in length; 30 stations and 2 metro-car maintenance depots.

The north-south corridor begins from Pimpri and Chinchwad municipal area and ends at Swargate with part underground and part elevated sections. This corridor is 16.6 km long and has 14 stations. The second corridor that connects the east with the west, starts from Vanaz and ends at Ramwadi and is 14.7 km long with 16 stations.

It is pertinent to mention that the project alignment traverses through some of the densest corridors of the city and once completed will significantly take away the current load from the city roads, in turn substantially alleviating the transportation woes of Punekars.

Distinctive features

Pune metro which shall seamlessly integrate the unique city of rivers, hills and plains are designed to have key distinctive features. It shall make the commuter experience exhilarating and simultaneously enhance the environment of the city. Some such features are —

First, it is the unique architectural features and designs of stations which are constructed to merge seamlessly with the rich tradition of the history, heritage, and culture of the city.

Second, the stations have been carefully designed to meet the unique needs of all types of commuters, including the elderly, women, children and the disabled.

Third, to complete the project with quality, on time and within the cost, Pune metro after Nagpur. Metro has become the second project in the country to implement the modern project management system known as 5D BIM (building information modeling).

Fourth, Pune metro stations and other buildings are designed not only as green buildings, but also the entire metro network will generate abundant solar power on the rooftops of station buildings, offices, and depots. These will ensure 65% of the total power needs of the metro rail will be met by solar energy.

Fifth, the project by its nature has already become an engine of job creation and economic growth during the construction phase and will get further impetus during the operation phase

Sixth, the commuters on Pune metro rail will have seamless travel experience with multi-modal integration, common mobility card for all modes of transport and efficient and high-quality feeder service.

Revenue management

Finally, unlike other metro systems and very much like Nagpur metro being constructed by Maha-Metro, fare-box revenue of Pune metro will be substantially augmented by non-fare box revenue using property development at stations and depots and transit-oriented development.

It will be no exaggeration to say that non-fare box revenue will comprise minimum of 60% of the total revenue.

The vision for Pune metro is to give a world-class sustainable urban transport to the city that Punekars will be proud of.

My earliest memories of Pune

My first tryst with Pune was in 1982 when I arrived here as a young railway engineer for training at Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineers (IRICEN). Then the city widely dubbed as “Queen of the Deccan” had a population of barely 1.2 million. Due to the preponderance of bicycles dotting its landscape, Pune acquired the tag of ‘City of Bicycles”. As I immersed in the body fabric of Pune and Punekars, in no time I was awestruck with the great lineage of history, heritage and culture of the city.

One change that I want to see in Pune: Vision for Pune is to give a world-class sustainable urban transport to the city that Punekars will be proud of.

Wi-Fi connection to be available in Delhi metro trains soon

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Wi-Fi connection to be available in Delhi metro trains soon

New Delhi (Metro Rail News): Commuters travelling by Delhi Metro will soon be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi not only at the stations, but even on moving trains. The six stations of the Airport Express Line were the first to provide the facility in 2016, and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will start free Wi-Fi services in moving trains on the same corridor around end-2019.

The mechanism through which commuters will be able to access Wi-Fi onboard moving trains is a two-level network. The official explained that, “It is a train-to-tunnel (T2T) radio network that passes signal from base stations inside a tunnel to portable base stations inside head cars. The inner-train network then transmits the signal from the Wireless Access Points (WAP) in each car to the users’ devices.”

A DMRC official said, “The Wi-Fi service in Delhi Metro will be provided for free and without limitations on download speed or traffic volume. The target speed will reach up to 300 Mbps per train.” A DMRC official working on the project said that, “At the moment, the download speed for a certain user depends on the network load at the time.”

The official added that DMRC is planning to deploy a Wi-Fi network on all its corridors, except the Magenta (Janakpuri West-Botanical Garden) and Pink (Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar) Lines. Like the Airport Express Line, free Wi-Fi would be provided both at stations and in trains on all the corridors except these two lines. After the Airport Express Line, in 2017 the Blue Line (Dwarka-Noida City Centre/Vaishali) was the second corridor to provide free Wi-Fi facility to passengers at its 50 stations.

While Airport Express Line will start providing Wi-Fi facility inside moving trains by the end of this year, the Yellow Line (Samaypur Badli-HUDA City Centre) is expected to get Wi-Fi facility installed at all its stations by the end of this year.

 Blue Line is the busiest corridor of the Delhi Metro network, it started providing Wi-Fi facility two years ago and uses a facility named “Oui DMRC Free Wi-Fi” at the the 50 stations of the service. Commuters can log in by searching for the Wi-Fi options on their devices and choose “Oui DMRC Free Wi-Fi” after a one-time registration through their mobile phones.

To provide its passengers with free access to the internet, DMRC had tied up with a consortium led by M/s Techno Sat Comm, which has been providing the same amenity at the six stations of the Airport Express Line from October 2016. Techno Sat also run India’s first Wi-Fi on a train service, the Delhi-Howrah Rajdhani Express.

Shri R. K. Sharma joins as Commissioner of Railway Safety

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Shri R. K. Sharma joins as Commissioner of Railway Safety

MUMBAI (Metro Rail News): Shri R. K. Sharma has joined as Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), Western Circle in Mumbai. The Commission of Railway Safety is subordinate to the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

He has earlier worked as CRS in NF circle at Kolkata. He will be in charge of Western / North Western Zone and Metros of Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Jaipur.

Shri Sharma has experience of working as a Director (System) in MMRDA, handling Metro rail works in Mumbai as well as management of Mumbai Suburban system. Shri Sharma who is an Electrical Engineer by training has experience of working in railway operations & safety management, rolling stock, electrification projects, metro systems, green energy, tunnelling systems etc.

He is credited with introducing concept of Live Line Maintenance of 25 KV Traction system and First Solar pump in Indian Railway and Standardization/indigenization of Electrical Systems in Metros.

Bangalore Metro to become six-coaches train by Dec 2019

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Bangalore Metro to become six-coaches train by Dec 2019

Bangalore (Metro Rail News): Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has again pushed the deadline to convert all its three coach train sets into six-coaches. The new deadline is December. Earlier, BMRCL had planned to convert all 50 of its three-coach trains from Phase One by September. The deadline has been pushed because the testing of each coach is a time-consuming process.

A senior BMRCL official said that we are converting three to four trains each month into six-coach ones. We have been receiving two to three new train sets every month to be added to our existing three-coaches, but they cannot be immediately inducted. Every night after the operations are over, we start running the new coaches to test them according to our safety standards. Once satisfied, we add them. So far, we have 15 six-coach trains running on the Purple line and one six-coach train running on the Green Line. The former is a more popular route. By December, we aim to induct all 50 trains as six-coaches in the Purple and the Green line.

The official added that in total, 268 trips are being run every day on the Purple and the Green line of the Metro. Riders say that six coaches are better as not the trains are less crowded and there is also a separate reserved coach for women. In the second phase, we have only called tenders for six-coach trains so that we do not have to convert them later.

BMRCL official said that in the second phase, we have only called tenders for six-coach trains so that we do not have to convert them later

BMRCL spokesperson BL Yashavanth Chavan said that the additional coaches for conversion are being supplied by Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) and the total cost of conversion into six coaches is Rs 1421 crores.

Tenders have been called for 216 new trains for Reach Five of Phase Two of Metro. 42 new train sets for extension of Phase One (East-West and North-South corridors) of Metro are also being supplied by BEML at a cost of Rs 362 crores. We are yet to call tenders for trains for Reach Six. The first six-coach train was introduced to the Purple Line in June 2018 and in January this year, it was added on the Green Line.

last-mile connectivity via a ropeway in Mumbai

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last-mile connectivity via a ropeway in Mumbai

MUMBAI (Metro Rail News): People in two western suburbs might not just have the Metro rail to look forward to but also a ropeway to make their way home from the Metro station.

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has approved a Rs 3,500-crore integration project to provide last-mile connectivity via a ropeway from Metro rail stations.

Ropeway route

Two routes, Malad-Marve and Borivali-Gorai, were approved for the ropeway project on Monday by the planning authority chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

As per the plan, routes connecting Malad and Borivali Metro stations (Metro-2A) will have ropeway links to Marve and Gorai, respectively, thus providing east-west connectivity.

Sources in MMRDA looped in about the project said M/s Indian Port Rail and Ropeway Corporation Ltd (IPRCL) was appointed to prepare a detailed project report to understand if ropeways could be implemented on these two routes, both of which would be 4.5 km long.

The two routes are likely to have halts in between for people to get down.

RA Rajeev, MMRDA commissioner said that ropeway is quite popular and successful in New York, Colombia, Turkey etc. In a city like Mumbai where people are facing traffic problems, such initiatives can be useful. If these pilot projects are successful, we may initiate a few more like them.

An official said that officials from the authority said that the multi-modal project would help in facilitating or improving public amenities such as footpaths, cycle tracks, parking zones, traffic signals, street lighting, CCTVs, path-finding maps, feeder services, street furniture and so on. The project will rejuvenate the entire road network below all Metro corridors.

CM Devendra Fadnavis said that constructing Metro corridors does not mean only providing transport facility to travel from one end to another. It must be a total experience for the commuters, meaning the provision of last-mile connectivity along with the paraphernalia of facilities that will encourage you to travel.

Apart from this, the MMRDA has decided to finance Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation for construction of Kavdas Dam. This will form part of the Surya Dam project which is being implemented by MMRDA. The KIDC will secure permissions required for acquiring land, rehabilitating project-affected people and preparing an environmental impact study.

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Two routes, Malad-Marve and Borivali-Gorai, approved for ropeway

The east-west link-up project would help in facilitating or improving other public amenities

There’d be space for footpaths, cycle tracks, parking zones and so on

Will also help revive road network below all Metro corridors.

Surat Metro phase I to start from Surat Dream City to Kadarshala Naval

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SURAT (Metro Rail News): Metro work will start in Surat soon. A meeting was organized in Surat today in which it was decided that the first phase of Metro will be started from Surat Dream city to Kadarshala.

The meeting was done at Gandhinagar today at the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Mukesh Puri, which was attended by officials of Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation and M/o. The commissioner was present. As per the decision, the Gujarat Government has decided to implement Surat Municipal Corporation. The commissioner has been named as “Managing Director” of Surat Metro Rail Corporation. 
From now on every metro rail meeting will be done at Surat and every issue will be discussed in it and urgently new staff will be appointed for it. In the first phase, “Surat Dream City to Kadarsh ​​Ki Nala” will have to be metro.

It is worth mentioning that the DPR of the Metro Rail Project in Surat was approved. Rs 12,114 crore DPR has been approved for Surat Metro. In which both the central and the state government will contribute 50-50% In the first phase, two corridors of Metro will be prepared. 

The first corridor will be 22 km from Sarathana to Khajad Dreamstate while the second corridor will be ready on a 19-kilometer route from Sarolini. Now, Surat’s traffic problem will be relaxed even when Surat gets metro rail.

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