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50% of Ahmedabad Metro’s Land Acquisition Complete

As per a recently published report, 50% of the land acquisition for Ahmedabad…

23 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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RIP: Kolkata Metro’s line to Barrackpore

It’s with sadness that I write this, but it must be covered. When the…

23 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Virtual Tour of Delhi’s Airport Express Line Train

Delhi’s 22.7 km long Airport Express Line train opened on 23 February…

22 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Construction begins on Noida’s Metro Line to Greater Noida

This project came out of nowhere! While news related to it first started emerging…

22 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Noida & Greater Noida Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Lucknow Metro’s General Consultant to be chosen by November

Just like Nagpur, Lucknow has now started the process to appoint a General Consultant…

21 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 17 Comments
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DMRC launches top-up facility for Delhi Metro Smart Cards

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has launched another way to recharge smart…

21 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Hyderabad Metro Progress – July 15

L&T Metro has finally updated their website (link) with details on the progress…

21 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Hyderabad Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Mumbai Metro crosses symbolic threshold of 100 mn passengers

This is going to be a short post as the title pretty much says it all! As per…

20 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Land for a second Depot to serve Mumbai Metro’s line 2 found

After land for one of Line 2’s Depots was found and reserved in Malvani…

20 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Deliberation on Mumbai Metro’s fourth line begins

I don’t even know where to start. Funding & Depots for the second…

20 Jul 2015 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 73.1 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 353.3 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 94.3 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 79.5 km
• Jaipur: 3 June 2015 – 12 km
• Chennai: 29 June 2015 – 54.1 km
• Kochi: 19 June 2017 – 27.9 km
• Lucknow: 6 September 2017 – 22.9 km
• Hyderabad: 29 November 2017 – 67 km
• Noida-Gr. Noida: 25 January 2019 – 29.7 km
• Ahmedabad: 6 March 2019 – 60.7 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 16 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 31.2 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km
• Indore: May 31 2025 – 5.8 km
• Patna: October 6, 2025 – 3.2 km
• Bhopal: December 21, 2025 – 6.2 km

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