The Bangalore Metro

The Bangalore Metro

The Bangalore Metro, also called Namma Metro, was opened on 20/10/2011 as India's third Metro Railway. The Namma Metro started it's construction in 2007. Th metro doesn't have a long history on it's own. There are currently two phases of the Metro, Phase 1 was completed in 2017. The Phase 1 route map is as follows:

Bangalore Metro Phase 1.

Mostly eneryone in India knows that Bangalore is the 3rd largest city in India. Such a city cannot afford to have a tiny metro such as it has being 42km long and having just 40 stations. The sole reason for this was a 6 year delay in completion of Phase 1. So, Phase 2 is being executed in Bangalore.......DMRC submitted the DPR(Detailed Project Report) in 2011, following which the plan was started.....
The first plan was to extend the existing corridors.
The purple line would be extended from Mysuru Road to Kengeri and from Baiyappanahalli to Whitefield.
The Green Line would be extended from Yelachendahalli to Anjanapura and from Hesarghatta Cross to BIEC.

Two new lines are also being executed. They are:
Yellow line from RV Road to Bommasandra, and
Pink line from Gottigere to Nagawada.

In addition to these lines, an airport express or Blue line is also being planned for Bengaluru. We will discuss it in the next posts. Also, the space city of India does deserve more than 6 lines in the city. Phase 3 of the Metro is also being planned which is hoped to service areas such as Hoskote, Malur and Ramanagara. The complete phase 2 map should look like this:

Hope to see you in the next post. Thank You and have a nice week
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Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namma_Metro

Delhi Metro-Part III

The Delhi Metro-Part III

Welcome back to MRT India. In this post we will discuss Part III of the Delhi Metro series. This is the final part including Phase 3 and Phase 4.The plan and executed projet of phase 3 and 4 are as follows:

Phase 3

The Phase 3 of Delhi Metro was mainly made to decongest the area of NCR around Delhi as inner and Greater Delhi were mainly decongested by Phase 1 and 2 of the metro.The plan of Phase 3 was as follows:

Red Line (9.41km)

1) Dilshad Garden------------------------------------------------------------------------Shaheed Sthal

Yellow Line (5.472km)

1) Jahangirpur---------------------------------Samaypur Baldi--------------------------------Siraspur

Blue Line (6.675km)

1) Noida City Centre------------------------------------------------------------Noida Electronic City

Green Line (11.182km)

1) Mundka-----------------------------------------------------------------------Bahadurgarh City Park

Violet Line (26.45km)

1) Central Secretariat------------------------------------------------------------------Kashmere Gate

2) Badarpur------------------------------Escorts Mujesar---------------------------Raja Nahar Singh

Pink Line (58.66km)

1)Majlis Park-------------Lajpat Nagar----------Mayur Vihar Pocket I   Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake--------Shiv Vihar

Magenta Line(37.9km)

1) Janakpuri West-------------------------Kalkaji Mandir-------------------------Botanical Garden

Grey Line (5.475km)

1) Dwarka---------------------------------------------------Najafgarh-------------Dhansa Bus Stand

Airport Express (1.878km)

1) Dwarka Sector 21------------------------------------------------------------------------ECC Centre

The phase 3 of Delhi Metro is mostly complete and some of the project is still under construction on the Pink line, Najafgarh to Dhansa Bus Stand and the Airport Express. But DMRC has aldready started construction on the Phase 4 of the Metro.

In This series of Delhi Metro, we have seen the growth and survival of the Delhi Metro..... More news updates will be given on it in the label "MassRapidTransit News".. Will see you next week.

Delhi Metro-Part II

Delhi Metro-Part II

In part I, we had explained how Delhi Metro was going to be the first modern metro of India. After construction started in 1997-98, the first section of the broad gauge Red Line opened on 25/12/2002. Since then, the metro has expanded rapidly.

Delhi Metro in 2019

Nowadays, Delhi metro id so big that it is fit to call it NCR Metro instead of Delhi Metro.It has branched into the satellite cities of Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad etc. Also, Delhi metro was the first metro in India to be built in Phases.

Now let us look at the 4 Phases of Delhi Metro.

Phase-I

The first Phase of Delhi Metro had 3 lines, totalling to 65km of Metro. Namely:

Red line    (21.3km)

Shahadra------------------------Tis Hazari-------------------Inderlok--------------------------Rithala

Yellow Line  (10.84km)

Vishwa Vidhyala-------------------Kashmere Gate------------------------------Central Secretariat

Blue Line  (32.2km)
Dwarka--------------------------Barakhamba Road--------------------------------------Indraprastha
     |
      \-------------------Dwarka Sector 9
A total of 59 stations were built opening from 25/12/2002 to 11/11/2006. This phase was built within the limits of Greater Delhi area. The main motto of this phase was to bring better connectivity to the inner and greater Delhi.

Phase-II

The second phase of Delhi metro was 124.9km long and had 10 extensions to the original network. The built network had 92 stations. The extensions were:

Red line  (3.09km)

1) Shahadra------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dilshad Garden

Yellow Line (32.94km)

1) Vishwa Vidyalaya-----------------------------------------------------------------------Jahangirpuri

2) Central Secretariat--------------Qutab Minar-------------Chhattarpur-------Huda City Centre

Blue Line  (26.57km)

1) Indraprastha--------------------------Yamuna Bank----------------------------Noida City Centre

2) Dwarka Sector 9------------------------------------------------------------------Dwarka Sector 21

3) Yamuna Bank-----------------------------Anand Vihar ISBT---------------------------------Vaishali

Green Line (18.46km)

1) Inderlok----------------Ashok Park Main-----------------------------------------------------Mundka

                                              |

                                               \--------------Kirti Nagar

Violet Line (17.8km)

1) Central Secretariat---------------------------Sarita Vihar--------------------------------Badarpur

The Second Phase of Delhi Metro witnessed the first ever Airport Express Railway Line to be built in India.This would also be known as the orange line and would become the fastest mass transit in India at 135km/h.The plan for which was as follows:

Dwarka Sector 21---------------------------------------------------------New Delhi Railway Station

WE KNOW THE DELHI METRO IS HUGE...... BUT IT'S HISTORY WILL BE CONTINUED IN THE NEXT POST.....

Delhi Metro-Part I

The Delhi Metro

The Delhi Metro was the second Metro Railway in India. We have seen the story of Kolkata, but the story of Dehi's metro is very different from that of Kolkata. Let's see the story of Delhi metro in this post.

The possibilities of having a metro in and around Delhi was first explored in 1969. In 1984, the Urban Arts Commission conducted a survey and found out that the condition of the city's suburban railway had to be improved and a new metro railway had to be built. This laid the foundation of the very first modern metro in India.

In the 1990's, the city's road and rail infrastructure were crippling. To alleviate pressure and improve the condition of traffc in the city, a metro railway was proposed and was started to be constructed in 1998. While planning the metro, the sufferings of Kolkata were closely monitored so that the msitakes won't be repeated in case of Delhi. Therefore, a new organisation called DMRC or Delhi Metro Rail Corporation was formed to implement the metro. Kolkata metro couldn't take any independent decision as it was directly under the West Bengal govt. and later under the Indian Railway.

                                                        

To prevent such mistakes happening again, DMRC was given full control over the metro and had to depend on the govt. only in case of funds. Dr. E.Sreedharan was the leader of the project and implemented the construction of the metro.

With no shortage of funds, the metro was executed rapidly. This time, instead of ICF, Hyundai Rotem got the contract to manufacture rakes for Delhi Metro. But the Ministry of Railways managed to force DMRC to use broad gauge trains. 

The key fator of Delhi to have this much metro in NCR is that DMRC never stopped construction.The figure below shows how the metro expanded.

                            

The history of the metro is quite long. Stay tuned for part 2....

Source: https://images.app.goo.gl/h97TBUBZvESgadAX8

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_Metro