Gurgaon:
The National Capital Region moved a step closer towards having an integrated single public
transport network with the Delhi Metro on Friday commencing trial runs for its Gurgaon section.
The trial run was flagged off from HUDA City Centre Metro station by Union Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
With this, Delhi Metro has extended its network to the second satellite city of the capital Gurgaon, the first being Noida where the services began late last year. The DMRC has also been asked to prepare detailed project reports for Metro in Haryana's Faridabad and Bahadurgarh.
Delhi Metro expects to inaugurate services between Hooda City Centre and Qutub by the first half of May and extend it to Jahangirpuri by June first week.
Reddy said the government will consider projects to extend the Metro services where it is found feasible.
Hooda said around 400 buses under Public-Private-Partnership scheme will be on the roads soon, which will be used as feeder buses to reach Metro stations. "This will cost around Rs 900 crores. Forty per cent of the buses will be air-conditioned," he said, adding he wanted the Metro to extend its services till Manesar in Gurgaon.
DMRC Managing Director E Sreedharan said the services from Gurgaon to Qutub will start in May while the services till Central Secretariat will have to wait till June first week.
"Normally, the services should start within a month of the commencement of trial runs. However, work at Chattarpur station is yet to be completed," Sreedharan said.
The trial train started from HUDA City Centre and reached Guru Dronacharya Metro station after covering a distance of approximately seven kms.
During the inaugural trial run, the interaction of the train with civil structure was checked to ensure that there was no physical blockage during the movement of the train on the track.
"The train ran at a slow speed since it was the first run. The speed will gradually be increased to 50 kmph, and ultimately to a maximum of 80 kmph will be generated during subsequent trial runs," a DMRC spokesperson said.
The entire signalling system will also be tested during the trials.
The seven-km elevated Gurgaon section of the Delhi Metro forms a part of the under-construction 27 km-long Central Secretariat--Gurgaon corridor which will be an extension of the Jahangirpuri-Central Secretariat line.
The 12.53 km Central Secretariat--Qutub Minar section will be fully underground while the 14.47 km Qutub Minar--Gurgaon section will be fully elevated.
The expected daily ridership on the Central Secretariat--Qutub Minar section is 1.8 lakh people by 2011 while the expected daily ridership on the Qutub Minar--Gurgaon section is 1.6 lakh people by that year.
transport network with the Delhi Metro on Friday commencing trial runs for its Gurgaon section.
The trial run was flagged off from HUDA City Centre Metro station by Union Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
With this, Delhi Metro has extended its network to the second satellite city of the capital Gurgaon, the first being Noida where the services began late last year. The DMRC has also been asked to prepare detailed project reports for Metro in Haryana's Faridabad and Bahadurgarh.
Delhi Metro expects to inaugurate services between Hooda City Centre and Qutub by the first half of May and extend it to Jahangirpuri by June first week.
Reddy said the government will consider projects to extend the Metro services where it is found feasible.
Hooda said around 400 buses under Public-Private-Partnership scheme will be on the roads soon, which will be used as feeder buses to reach Metro stations. "This will cost around Rs 900 crores. Forty per cent of the buses will be air-conditioned," he said, adding he wanted the Metro to extend its services till Manesar in Gurgaon.
DMRC Managing Director E Sreedharan said the services from Gurgaon to Qutub will start in May while the services till Central Secretariat will have to wait till June first week.
"Normally, the services should start within a month of the commencement of trial runs. However, work at Chattarpur station is yet to be completed," Sreedharan said.
The trial train started from HUDA City Centre and reached Guru Dronacharya Metro station after covering a distance of approximately seven kms.
During the inaugural trial run, the interaction of the train with civil structure was checked to ensure that there was no physical blockage during the movement of the train on the track.
"The train ran at a slow speed since it was the first run. The speed will gradually be increased to 50 kmph, and ultimately to a maximum of 80 kmph will be generated during subsequent trial runs," a DMRC spokesperson said.
The entire signalling system will also be tested during the trials.
The seven-km elevated Gurgaon section of the Delhi Metro forms a part of the under-construction 27 km-long Central Secretariat--Gurgaon corridor which will be an extension of the Jahangirpuri-Central Secretariat line.
The 12.53 km Central Secretariat--Qutub Minar section will be fully underground while the 14.47 km Qutub Minar--Gurgaon section will be fully elevated.
The expected daily ridership on the Central Secretariat--Qutub Minar section is 1.8 lakh people by 2011 while the expected daily ridership on the Qutub Minar--Gurgaon section is 1.6 lakh people by that year.
