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PM Modi to inaugurate two new Mumbai metro lines on Jan 19. 5 things to know

Kairi 2 years ago 2 min read

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will flag off segment II of traces of Mumbai metro- Line 2A and Line 7 at Gundavali metro station. The envisioned price of building the second one segment of the metro traces is round ₹12,six hundred crore.

After the inauguration, the Metro traces will gain the Mumbaikars as it’s far anticipated to lessen the visitors at the Link Road and Western Express Highway, the 2 principal roads in Mumbai.

Here are five stuff you want to recognise approximately the newly constructed metro traces.

1. The Metro line 2A (yellow line) connects Dahisar East and DN Nagar in Andheri West that is round 18.6 km long. The segment II has been prolonged with the aid of using nine km protecting eight stations from Andheri West to Valani. The metro line 7 hyperlinks Andheri East to Dahisar East that is round 16.five Km long. Its 2d segment could have 4 stations from Goregaon East to Gundavali so one can stretch upto five.2 km. The Metro traces could have a brand new interchange station at Gundavali in Andheri East and Andheri West, as consistent with the MMRDA officials.

2. Both the metro traces can be open to the general public on 20 January. The first metro will go away the Andheri West station at 6 am on Line 2A and the ultimate can be at nine.24 pm. Similarly, the primary metro of Line 7 will begin at five.fifty five am from Gundavali station and the ultimate one at nine.24 pm. The fare for the price price tag is ₹10 for three km, with an extra price after three km.

3. Cumulatively, the metro trains of those traces will run at the 35-km extended hall stretch with 22 rakes having 30 extended stations in total.

4. Both those metro traces byskip from critical roads in Mumbai, i.e Link Road and Western Express Highway. These metro traces are anticipated to hold three-4 lakh passengers on a each day basis, so one can lessen the visitors from those principal roads and crowding in current nearby trains.

5. These metro trains are made in India. The basis stone of those traces become laid with the aid of using the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015.