Saturday, November 20, 2010

MEGA: Metrolink Express Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad

MEGA: Metrolink Express Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad

Finally Gujarat will have its own Metro line under the leadership of Mr.Narendra Modi, The Chief Minister of Gujarat. This metro project is of Rs.10,000 crores and this project has get approval from the Indian Railway department and now this project will be on the fast track.

Under this project, 5 lines (Corridors) will be build between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar which will cover different areas of Ahmedabad city.

The Metro rail will run on 3 types of routes.

Route :1 (Main) – Gandhinagar Akshardham to Vasana APMC, Ahmedabad

Route 2 North-South Corridor – Kalupur to Thaltej

Route: 3 East-West Corridor – Airport to GIFT City, Gandhinagar via Coba circle will be considered as East-West Corridor.

As a part of first project from Koba Circle to Ashram Road, there will be 33.65 km of route will be constructed and this will have 31 stations in between them.

One Underground metro line will also be constructed between Kalupur to Income Tax Circle and for which soil testing will be done for this route.

Because of this Metro route in Ahmedabad, 40,000 passengers will be transported in 1 hour and 17 lakh passengers in 24 hours will be transported.

This is really a great move by Chief Minister Narendra Modi who promised that he will turn Ahmedabad into world’s one of the best city.

In fact, Forbes has mentioned that, Ahmedabad is the fastest growing city of the world. This is really a great thing.

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