Urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu will flag off the first train from Mandi House station at 9.30am on Thursday, a DMRC official said.
Three months behind schedule, the 3km-long underground corridor will have one station in between — Janpath — and is expected to benefit some 70,000 commuters. Once it becomes operational, Mandi House will be the interchange point for three lines — Noida-Dwarka Sector 21, Central Secretariat-Badarpur and Jahangirpuri-Huda City Centre.
Earlier, commuters had to negotiate a bustling Rajiv Chowk station to change trains. Mandi House as an interchanging station will take away 40% of the crowd from Rajiv Chowk, says DMRC, easing the load on the busiest station on the network.
"The Central Secretariat-Mandi House section has received the mandatory safety clearance from the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety and the line is expected to be opened for commercial services for the public this week itself," Delhi Metro Rail Corporation spokesperson Anuj Dayal said on Tuesday. The clearance comes months after Delhi Metro completed work on the station. It is among the first lines under phase III to be thrown open to the public.
The key advantage of the Mandi House station for commuters will be the distance from Central Secretariat, cutting down travel time. The distance between Central Secretariat station — which is connected with the Badarpur-Central Secretariat (Violet line) as well as the Jahangirpuri-HUDA City Centre (Yellow line) — and Rajiv Chowk is 4km. Once Mandi House becomes the transfer point, the distance will be 3km, shaving off several minutes of travel time. Metro officials say commuting from places like Nehru Place, Lajpat Nagar, Saket, AIIMS or Gurgaon to central and east Delhi will come down substantially. "That 1km distance is crucial as it will save on travelling time by almost 7-8 minutes," said the official.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/followceleb.cms?alias=Venkaiah Naidu,Rajiv Chowk,Mandi House-Central Secretariat line,Delhi Metro
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Mandi House-Central Secretariat line opens tomorrow
Dengan url
http://sehatputihgigiku.blogspot.com/2014/06/mandi-house-central-secretariat-line.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Mandi House-Central Secretariat line opens tomorrow
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Mandi House-Central Secretariat line opens tomorrow
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar