Locale Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Headquarters Monorail Electrification 750 V DC Average speed 31 km/h Transit type Monorail | Daily ridership 35,000 (Estd.) Train length 4 coaches Top speed 80 km/h (50 mph) Number of lines 3 | |
Owner Government of Uttar Pradesh | ||
The Kanpur Monorail is a proposed monorail system for the city of Kanpur.
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Project
Promises are meant to be broken, the adage goes. And Kanpuriyas, it seems, are having a fair share of promises made and broken by politicians and bureaucrats alike.
Chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, while addressing entrepreneurs of UP origin from across the globe at the "UP-Calling 2004" on February 20, had announced to launch a magnetic monorail between Lucknow and Kanpur. For this purpose, the UP Development Council (UPDC) was in touch with a consortium of Japanese companies, he had added. That was the first and the last mention of the project.
Lines
There are three lines proposed in phase I are as follows:
Total length of Phase I would be 63.0 km.
Other lines
Other lines which are being proposed in addition to Phase I are:
Status
Feasibility study has been completed for Phase I corridors. Work likely to start after 2016.