Rail Analysis India May Digital Edition 2018 | Page 36

36 | Article Hauz Khas to emerge as vital Metro hub The Hauz Khas Metro station has been turned into an interchange station to facilitate interconnectivity between the HUDA City Centre – Samaypur Badli (Line 2) and the Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden Metro corridors. The passengers coming from Gurugram on Line 2 will be able to get down at Hauz Khas and take a direct train to Botanical Garden in NOIDA. Through this connectivity, the travelling time between Gurugram and NOIDA will be brought down by at least half an hour. After the inauguration of this vital link, the approximate time to commute between HUDA City Centre and Botanical Garden will be about 50 minutes. Presently, a Metro journey from HUDA Phase 3 progress details : • Phase 3 network opened so far: 62 kilometres Sl. No • • Corridors opened Kilometres 1 Central Secretariat – Kashmere Gate 9.37 2 Badarpur – Escorts Mujesar 13.975 3 Jahangirpuri – Samaypur Badli 4.489 4 Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus – Majlis Park 21.56 5 Botanical Garden – Kalkaji Mandir 12.64 City Centre to Botanical Garden in NOIDA takes about one and a half hours with the interchange at Rajiv Chowk. There will be paid area to paid area connectivity between the new and the old Hauz Khas stations. West Delhi Connect The Janakpuri West Metro station on the Dwarka – NOIDA Metro corridor (Line 3) has also been converted into an Phase 3 kilometres after the opening of this section: 87 kilometres Phase 3 network yet to be opened after the opening of this section: 72 kilometres (Excluding NOIDA – Greater NOIDA section) Sl. No Corridors to be opened Kilometres 1 Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus – Shiv Vihar 9.37 2 Mundka – Bahadurgarh 13.975 3 Noida City Centre – Electronic City 4.489 4 Dwarka – Najafgarh 21.56 5 Escorts Mujesar – Ballabhgarh 12.64 Dilshad garden – New Bus Adda Connectivity highlights : The opening of the Janakpuri West – Kalkaji Mandir section of the Delhi Metro will immensely improve the connectivity of the national capital. With the opening of this corridor west Delhi, south Delhi and the satellite city of NOIDA will get interconnected like never before. The entire Magenta Line from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden will be served by four interchange stations – www.railanalysis.com • • • • Janakpuri West ( with Blue Line ) Hauz Khas ( With Yellow Line ) Kalkaji Mandir ( with Violet Line ) Botanical Garden ( with Blue Line ) The main connectivity highlights will be as follows: interchange station to provide additional connectivity to areas in south Delhi and NOIDA from west Delhi. The interchange station will be the first station of the Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden corridor of Phase 3 which will connect Line 3 with important locations such as the Terminal 1 of the IGI Airport, Munirka, Hauz Khas, Nehru Place and Botanical Garden in NOIDA. The entire Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden corridor will also act as a feeder for the presently operational Line 3 as both the originating stations of this corridor – Janakpuri West and Botanical Garden are important stations of Line 3. This new line will, therefore, significantly help in reducing congestion on Line 3 as well as the Rajiv Chowk Metro station as the journey from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden by both the corridors will almost take the same time. Improved connectivity for IT Hub Nehru Place Nehru Place, a locality in south Delhi, which houses one of India’s largest information technology markets, already has a Metro station, on the Kashmere Gate – Escorts Mujesar corridor of the Delhi Metro network. Now, Nehru Enclave, the new Metro station, on the Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden corridor will directly connect the area with the satellite town of NOIDA in Uttar Pradesh, the domestic terminal of the Indira Gandhi International Airport as well as tremendously reduce travel time to other prominent locations of NCR such as Gurgaon. Domestic Airport to be on the Metro Network The domestic terminals of the Indira Gandhi Airport are also going to get Metro connectivity in Phase 3. The presently operational Airport Express Link provides Metro connectivity to the new T3 terminal of the Airport from which all international carriers and all premium domestic airlines fly. However, there is no Metro connectivity for the domestic terminals from which the low cost operators fly. The station will help the domestic passengers in a major way. Let us take a look: • From South Delhi : Direct connectivity from • Kalkaji • Nehru Place • Hauz Khas • Munirka etc. • From East Delhi: Passengers coming from • Vaishali ( Ghaziabad ) • Anand Vihar • Lakshmi Nagar etc can take Line 3 and 4 and change at Janakpuri West. • From West Delhi: Passengers coming from Punjabi Bagh, NS Place etc can take the new Majlis Park – Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus corridor, change at Rajouri Garden, then take Line 3 and reach Janakpuri West to avail the services on this corridor. • From North and Central Delhi: Passengers coming from Vishwavidyalaya and Central Delhi areas can take Line 2, reach Hauz Khas and board the train to the Terminal 1 – IGI Airport. • From NOIDA: Direct connectivity from Botanical Garden in NOIDA (Approx 35 minutes from Botanical Garden). www.railanalysis.com