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Transit type
  
straddle-beam Monorail

Locale
  
Delhi

System length
  
90,000 m

Number of lines
  
6

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Delhi monorail project


The Delhi Monorail is a proposed monorail system for the city of Delhi that will operate as Delhi Metro rail lines.

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Lines

The first proposed line in which work has been planned to start in mid-2013 will be

  • From Shastri Park to Trilokpuri via Nirman Vihar.Length of this line will be 11 km
  • It is planned to complete by 2017 and wiil cost government Rs.2235 crores.It is expected to connect densely popualated Delhi areas where Metro could not reach.It will connect 3 Metro Lines: Red line (Dilshad Garden to Rithala) at Shastri Park .Blue Line (Anand Vihar to Dwarka Line) at Nirman Vihar and proposed Mukundpur to Yamuna Vihar at TriLokPuri. It will start in East New Delhi by end of 2017.

    There are three lines proposed in phase I are as follows:

  • From Rohini Sector 21 to Red Fort via Wazir Pur - Shakti Nagar - Anand Parbat - Ajmeri Gate - Delhi Gate (Delhi) Length of this line would be 28.5 km
  • From Kalyanpuri to Pul Mithai via Scope Minar - Geeta Colony - Shanti Van - Red Fort - Old Delhi Railway Station. Length of this line would be 15.5 km
  • From Gulabi Bagh to Delhi University via Shakti Nagar - Kamla Nagar - Guru Teg Bahadur Road. Length of this line would be 3.8 km
  • Total length of Phase I would be 47.8 km.

    Other Lines

    Other lines which are being proposed in addition to Phase I are:

  • From Badarpur to Mehrauli.
  • From Qutab Minar to Dwarka via Vasant Kunj - IGI airport.
  • From Saket to IG Stadium via Siri Fort - South Extension - JLN Stadium - New Delhi Railway Station.
  • Status

    Only the Feasibility study has been completed for Phase-I corridor(s) till date and the project has come to halt for now.

    References

    Delhi Monorail Wikipedia