50% of Ahmedabad Metro’s Land Acquisition Complete

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Hyderabad Metro Progress – July 15

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

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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…

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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 near Malad (read: Good & Bad news for Mumbai’s Line 2 & 3’s…

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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 line hasn’t been finalized yet and the tenders for the third line haven’t…

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Revenue Generator: Advertisement Wrapped Trains

Apart from generating revenue through fares, there exist many other avenues for Metro operators to generate revenue. The bulk of it is often obtained…

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[Pics] Delhi’s Pink line crossing Airport Express Line

With the new 58.6 km long Pink line under construction on the Ring Road, Delhi’s got yet another place where 2 lines cross each other in some fashion…

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Tenders released for Nagpur Metro project

As stated in my previous post on the Nagpur Metro project, the tender for the General Consultant was to be released in the coming days. I just checked…

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IL&FS wins Bangalore Metro contract

In a Press Release from earlier this year, the IL&FS Engineering and Construction Company Ltd announced that they’ve bagged a Rs.326.99 crore…

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