GURUGRAM: Construction for the planned Millennium City Centre-Cyber City metro line still months away, HMRTC has set the wheels in motion to develop two new corridors that will connect old and new Gurgaon.
Haryana Mass Rapid Transport Corporation (HMRTC) on Thursday invited tenders to prepare detailed project reports (DPR) of the two metro lines.
First on the agenda is a 17km metro line planned from Bhondsi to Gurgaon Railway Station. This corridor – meant to decongest Sohna Road and NH-8 — will cross Vatika Chowk, Subhash Chowk, Rajiv Chowk, Sohna Chowk, Sector 4-7 Chowk and Railway Road.
According to the proposal, this line will intersect with Millennium City Centre-Cyber City line at Subhash Chowk and Sector 5 stations. It will also facilitate an interchange with the planned rapid rail corridor at Rajiv Chowk. The second metro line of 13.6 kilometres in length is being planned between Golf Course Extension Road and Sector 5.
This corridor will connect corporate hubs with residential areas of Old Gurgaon by covering key spots such as Hong Kong Market in Sector 57, Ardee City, Millennium City Centre, Signature Tower, Maharana Pratap Chowk, Atul Kataria Chowk and Sheetla Mata Road.
As Millennium City Centre station will intersect with the yellow line of Delhi Metro and the planned corridor till Cyber City, this line is expected to benefit thousands of commuters who want to go towards new sectors.
“We invited tenders for preparing DPR of two new metro lines. The 17km line will offer a seamless link from SPR to transit hubs. The interchanges with metro, RRTS corridor and railway station will integrate regional and city travel. Similarly, 13km metro line will cover densely populated areas of the city,” an HMRTC official said on Thursday.
The decision to move ahead with the DPR process was taken during an HMRTC board meet in Aug last year, but the process was delayed after model code of conduct was enforced for the Oct assembly election in Haryana. Now that the state and civic polls are over, the project is back on track, the official said.
