Work Resumes on Pushing Delhi Metro’s Steel Bridge at Shakurpur

Another gap on the Delhi Metro’s 58.596 km Pink Line will soon be plugged…

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[Pics] Hyderabad Metro Conducts Trial Runs at Night

Night owls in Hyderabad have noticed the concessionaire of Hyderabad Metro, L&T…

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1.5 MW Solar Plant Goes Live at Delhi Metro’s Mukundpur Depot

Rays Power Experts has announced that they’ve successfully installed and…

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[Pics] Progress of Bangalore Metro’s KR Market Station

Here are some fairly new images from inside Bangalore Metro’s KR Market…

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Chennai Metro – May 2016 Tunneling Update

The Chennai Metro Rail Ltd just published their April 2016 newsletter with…

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LMRCL Unveils Final Design of Alstom Metro Coaches ; Manufacturing Begins

3 weeks after the design of Lucknow’s Alstom metro coaches was finalized…

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[Pics] Progress of Kochi Metro’s Palarivattom Station – May 2016

After taking a look at Kochi Metro’s CUSAT station yesterday, let’s…

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Bangalore Metro – May 2016 Tunneling Update

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) just published their May 2016…

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[Pics] Progress of Kochi Metro’s CUSAT Station – May 2016

Here’s a post with some brand new images of Kochi Metro’s CUSAT metro station which is being built by Larsen & Toubro about half a kilometer…

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J Kumar Sets Up 2nd Launching Gantry for Ahmedabad’s Metro

Hat tip to Bhavin for the images! After J Kumar Infraprojects commissioned their first Launching Gantry (LG) on the night of February 19, they’ve…

09 May 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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MoUD Initiates Action to Set Up 4th FFC to Revise Delhi Metro Fares

After the Delhi Government’s promise to resolve slum rehab issues from the Pink Line’s path, there’s more good news for the DMRC! The…

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Nagpur Metro Unveils Zero Mile & Sitaburdi Metro Stations’ Designs

The Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation this week unveiled the preliminary design of their Zero Mile and Sitaburdi interchange stations! They had launched a…

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Delhi: 2 Slums on Pink Line’s Alignment to be Removed by August

This is the most significant piece of news this week! Last year I had written about 3 places in Delhi where land acquisition for the 58.59 km Pink Line…

06 May 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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GDA Approves Extn of Delhi’s Blue Line from Vaishali to Mohan Nagar

Hat tip to Deepak Chaudhary for bringing this to my attention. The Ghaziabad Development Authority in its board meeting last month approved a proposal…

04 May 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 15 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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