Pune, August 25 Civic body proposes to raise Rs 2,600-crore urban transport fund for metro, Rs 2,300 crore for ring road land acquisition

Would the frequent protests by members of the CMH Road Shops and Establishments Association prevent the traffic authorities and Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) from proceeding with pier construction works on Indiranagar's busiest road?

Anna Nagar Western Extension and Mogappair are densely populated areas that are out of the Metro project's Corridor 2 loop. Residents want the route reworked to include their areas as well
G Saravanan Chennai

CORRIDOR 1 FROM Washermanpet to Airport via Esplanade, Central, Egmore, Anna Salai and Guindy. The corridor is partly elevated and partly underground. Underground portion for about 13.5 km. The track emerges after Saidapet station and terminates in front of the Airport.

A consortium led by Maytas Infra Ltd, a real estate infrastructure company promoted by Satyam Computer owners, has bagged the country's first urban transit project on public private partnership (PPP) mode by quoting a negative grant to the Andhra Pradesh government.

Mumbai, July 24 Even as the construction of first metro rail between Versova and Ghatkopar via Andheri is under way, the displaced shop owners and tenants at the J P Road in Andheri are still breathing nervously due to the "vagueness' on their rehabilitation.

DEEPANKAR GANGULY

Armed with a compensation kitty of Rs 100 crore, the government will begin acquiring 7.5 bighas of land in the city's central business district after Puja to create the East-West Metro corridor.

The first land-acquisition notices were issued last week to the owners of two central Calcutta properties

The 32-km elevated second phase of the metro rail project which will connect Charkop and Mankhurd via Bandra will have 27 stations.

After the state government okayed the project, the Centre accorded its in-principal approval to the line in February 2007. Two years ago, the cost of the project was pegged at Rs5,616 crore. Now, it has been estimated that the project would cost almost Rs8,400 crore.

The deadline for the project is 2012. The Ambani brothers, it has been learnt, will bid for the project.

In a shocking incident, a huge girder crushed a passing vehicle and seriously injured the driver, after it allegedly fell at a Metro construction site near the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital last week. Attributed to a crane malfunction, the falling debris destroyed the car, while the driver allegedly sustained multiple fractures, according to the sources.

This comes hot on the heels of the widely reported Supratim Dutta incident, wherein an angle had gone through the body of the HCL employee after he met with an accident at the MG Road Metro site earlier this month.

Mumbai, July 16 MMRDA is waiting for Railways to finalise Churchgate-Virar elevated tracks proposal After a series of flip-flops on how to go about the first phase of the Metro rail in the city, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has now put the third route, to run from Colaba to Bandra, on hold indefinitely. The reason: The route would duplicate the proposed elevated railway along the existing Churchgate-Virar line.

Completes tunnel below railway lines in just three days Tunnel constructed 12 metres below the railway line Work done without affecting the movement of trains NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has achieved another major engineering feat by successfully completing construction of one of the two tunnels below the Indian Railways' line at Safdarjung in just three days.