Examining costs and deadlines for new rapid rail metro corridor

The Rapid Rail Metro Corridor is expected to cost Rs 20,637 crore and will be constructed over a period of five years.

New Delhi: Attention commuters. Soon, you will be able to travel from Noida International Airport to Delhi Aerocity in just 66 minutes as a 72-km long Rapid Rail Metro Corridor will connect Ghaziabad RRTS station to NIA in Jewar. The project is expected to be completed in 5 years, when a super-fast railway will take you from the upcoming Noida International Airport (NIA) to Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi in less than an hour.

Officials in charge of the railway corridor said the fast rail service will be enabled by the 72-km long Rapid Rail Metro Corridor, which will connect the Ghaziabad RRTS station to the National International Airport in Jewar.

National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) officials have submitted a revised detailed project report (DPR) to the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA).

According to a report in The Indian Express , Yamuna River Authority CEO Dr Arun Vir Singh detailed that the DPR is being reviewed by the Uttar Pradesh cabinet and is expected to be approved soon.

Rapid rail metro corridor: Examining costs, deadlines

The Rapid Rail Metro Corridor is expected to cost Rs 20,637 crore and will be constructed over a period of five years.

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Once completed, the Rapid Rail Metro Corridor will be integrated with the Delhi-Meerut RRTS at Ghaziabad, the Aqua Line Metro at Char Murti Chowk and the Noida Airport at the Ground Transportation Centre (GTC).

The Rapid Rail Metro Corridor will have 22 stations, including 11 RRTS-cum-Metro stations and 11 pure Metro stations, with provisions for 13 more stations to be added in future.

Officials said most of the line will be elevated, while the final station at the national international airport will be underground.

The Rapid Rail Metro Corridor will offer two types of service

The Rapid Rail-Metro Corridor will provide two types of services such as the Rapid RRTS service with a speed of up to 114 km/hr and stopping at limited stations, and the Metro service with a speed of 46 km/hr and stopping at all stations.

The fast RRTS service will reduce the travel time to Sarai Kale Khan to 56 minutes, to Delhi Aerocity to 66 minutes, to Ghaziabad to 37 minutes and to Meerut to 72 minutes, while the normal RRTS service running at a speed of 84 kmph will take an extra 13 minutes on each route.

Apart from this, the Rapid Rail Metro corridor will include the 10-km long Aqua Line Metro stretch between Char Murti Chowk and Knowledge Park V and incorporate the proposed light rail transit between NIA and YEIDA Sector 21/Film City.

The new corridor is expected to handle about 326,000 passengers per day with a peak hour peak direction traffic (PHPDT) of 8,784 by 2030-31, rising to 757,000 passengers per day with a peak hour peak direction traffic (PHPDT) of 23,957 by 2054-55.