After 7-year delay, Bengaluru Metro’s 3-km Green line set to open tomorrow 

Maheshwara Rao, Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) managing director, confirmed to The Indian Express about the commissioning of the line.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, connected Wednesday, conducted an inspection circuit of the newly-extended line, boarding a Metro astatine Yeshwanthpur and assessing the facilities connected the Nagasandra-Madavara route.

Although the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) granted operational clearance implicit a period ago, it took further clip for the Central Government to contented the last go-ahead.

Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya had repeatedly urged Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal Khattar to expedite the opening of the stretch, citing mounting commuter vexation owed to terrible congestion connected Tumkur Road.

A 3-kilometre stretch, years successful the making

Construction of the elevated enactment began successful 2017 with a projected completion timeline of 27 months. However, the task faced aggregate delays, yet concluding 7 years aboriginal astatine a outgo of Rs 1,168 crore, which includes Rs 152 crore allocated for onshore acquisition. The declaration to physique the stations was awarded to Simplex Infrastructures Ltd successful February 2017, and civilian enactment commenced successful June of that year.

This hold marks the last summation to Phase-1 nether the broader Phase-2 improvement plan. Running parallel to the National Highway, the elevated enactment crosses the NICE Road astatine 2 points and provides nonstop metro entree to cardinal destinations, including the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), an important venue for nationalist and planetary events, arsenic good arsenic ample residential areas and surrounding towns.

Enhanced commuter facilities and infrastructure

Each presumption connected the caller agelong has been equipped with pedestrian entree facilities to amended last-mile connectivity. Manjunathanagar presumption has a Foot implicit Bridge (FoB) for road-crossing pedestrians, portion Chikkabidarakallu and Madavara stations diagnostic underpasses for harmless crossing of the nationalist highway.

Once the enactment is operational, Bengaluru’s Metro web volition grow to 76.95 kilometres with 69 stations. The North-South Green Line volition agelong upto 33.46 kilometres with 31 stations, portion the East-West Purple Line volition span 43.49 kilometres with 38 stations. This enlargement is expected to trim question clip by astir 30 per cent.

The extended Metro enactment to BIEC is expected to supply large alleviation for those attending conferences and exhibitions astatine the venue, arsenic good arsenic residents of adjacent neighbourhoods who volition present person nonstop entree to the Metro network.