News: Gurugram-Faridabad metro to connect with Rapid Metro at Sector 56-25-12-2020
GURUGRAM: The Gurugram-Faridabad metro corridor, whose detailed project report was approved by the state government earlier this year, will connect with Rapid Metro at Sector 56, which will be a bridge with Delhi Metro’s Yellow Line.
A GMDA official said an interchange facility has been proposed at Sector 56, which will allow passengers to switch trains without having to exit the metro premises. 'The link will also help increase footfall in Rapid Metro,” said a senior GMDA official. Rapid Metro, which was built and operated privately, was taken over by the Haryana government in 2019.
The state government has handed its operations over to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
According to the detailed project report of the Gurugram-Faridabad metro, which is scheduled for a 2025 launch, the passengers per hour per direction traffic (PHPDT) is estimated at 8,304 with a total 1,24,769 passenger trips daily in the launch year. The PHPDT for the years 2031 and 2041 is estimated to be 11,059 and 12,553, respectively.
The 32km corridor between the two Haryana NCR cities is proposed to have eight stations, two of which are underground. The stations include Bata Chowk (Faridabad), which has a station on the Violet Line, Aravali Golf Course, Badkhal Enclave, Pali Stone Crusher Zone, Police Chowki Mangar, Mandi, Sector 56 and Vatika Chowk. A 4.19km portion of the corridor will pass underground.
A train maintenance depot for the corridor has been proposed at Sushant Lok.
The project was announced by chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar in 2016. After several delays, the DPR was completed this March. The DPR has now been placed before the public undertaking committee of the Haryana assembly.
The metro corridor is expected to reduce vehicular traffic between the two cities as a large number of people travel every day in personal vehicles for work in the absence of a public transport system. The interchange facilities are critical because they put passengers in the metro grid once they board a train on this corridor, giving them seamless access to the Yellow Line, one of the Delhi Metro’s busiest and most important corridors, between Huda City Centre and Samaypur Badli.
DMRC, the executing agency, HSVP and the Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation (HMRTC) have already conducted the first field survey to check the alignment of the route, spots for developing stations and status of land. The corridor, which will be developed along the Gurugram-Faridabad road, will not require any major acquisition of the land.
