Tag: Kolkata Metro
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Metro authorities consider increasing peak hour frequency
The metro after resumption of services from last week has been operating in 12 slots.
September 22, 2020 -
Metro resumes after over five-month hiatus
Around 20,000 passengers travelled till 7pm in the north-south route: Officials
September 15, 2020 -
NEET examinees hail special metro services
Metro stations come alive after 175 days; commercial operations from today
September 14, 2020 -
Special Metro services for NEET aspirants: Preps on in full swing
From, deployment of RPF at the entry and exit points, counters at the stations for issuing and recharging of smart cards, luggage scanners, to hand sanitising kiosks, everything was tested and checked for the final preparations.
September 13, 2020 -
Metro travail
Having said that, it must be acknowledged that the Metro is poised to follow a very complex praxis, if the upshot of last Friday’s meeting between the Metro authorities and the West Bengal government is any indication.
September 8, 2020 -
Metro : Doubts over E-pass procedures
Notably, pre-booking of travel slots to avail Kolkata Metro service has been made compulsory
September 6, 2020 -
Kolkata Metro: No decision yet on crowd control mechanism, resumption date
While the final date of resumption yet to be decided, the state government is said to have requested the metro officials to run services on 13 September for aspirants of NEET.
September 4, 2020 -
Metro likely to resume with limited services
Officials might decide to run services between 8 am and 8pm
September 1, 2020 -
Bowbazar Metro: Defunct tunnel boring machine to be extracted
The stretch between Bowbazar and Sealdah is the last leg of the underground tunnelling of the East-West Metro Corridor.
August 8, 2020 -
Metro track-laying work under Hooghly river-bed to start soon
“The entire labour force is to be immunised before starting the work,” informed a KMRCL official.
July 9, 2020 -
Metro commute to come with strict social distancing
“Considering the large number of commuters that take up the metro every day, it will almost impossible for us to provide sanitisers to all,” said the official.
May 17, 2020 -
Transport to disappear for the next few days
The services of Kolkata’s lifeline, the Metro railway, carrying more than six lakh commuters daily, have been suspended from tomorrow till 31 March.
March 23, 2020 -
Some Gour Dey Lane residents get evacuation orders again
Spending days in fear, if history is repeated, some of the residents of Gour Dey Lane Lane in Bow Bazar will be evacuated for the second time in six months.
March 4, 2020 -
E-W Metro: Platform screen doors continue to trouble authorities
The platform screen doors (PSDs) are an integral part of the recently inaugurated Metro and have been installed to prevent suicide attempts.
February 27, 2020 -
E-W Metro: Tunnelling work to be completed by March 2021
As the TBM Chandi became defunct after hitting an aquifer last year on 31 August, its twin, Urvi, will take up the task of excavating the remaining portion, covering a length of around 1.8 km.
February 22, 2020 -
Metro authorities to restart tunnelling at Bowbazar within this week
The work that had been halted in September lats year, is being resumed after more than five months in the city's gold hub which witnessed cracks, cave-ins and crevices due to tunnelling in one part of the East-West Metro Corridor turning hundreds of residents into refugees overnight and costing the evacuees their lifetime earnings.
February 20, 2020 -
Euphoria & Distress
The achievement would seem to be still more remarkable as the track has been opened to public, albeit partially, barely a few months after the cave-in at Bowbazar and the displacement of families from hearth and home.
February 17, 2020