3 Jun 2015
Delhi Metro: Heart Beat of our Capital- Must Read Article
Delhi Metro is a metro system serving Delhi metropolitan area and its satellite cities of Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad in the National Capital Region of India.[8] Delhi Metro is the world's fifteenth largest metro system in terms of length and 12th largest in terms of number of stations.[9] It is a member of Nova Group of Metros.[10] Delhi Metro is India's third urban mass rapid transport system (after the Kolkata Metro and Chennai MRTS) and first modern rapid transit system. As of June 2015, the network consists of five colour-coded regular lines (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Violet), and a sixth express line, the Airport Express, with a total length of 193 kilometres (120 mi),[1] serving 140 stations (with 6 more Airport Express stations),[1] of which 38 are underground, five are at-grade, and the rest are elevated.[11] All stations have escalators, elevators, and tactile tiles to guide the visually impaired from station entrances to trains.
As of November 2014, DMRC operates around 3000 trips daily between 05:30 till 00:00 running with an interval of between 3–4 minutes between trains at peak frequency.[12][13] The trains are usually of four and six coaches, but due to increase in the number of passengers, eight-coach trains are added on the Yellow Line (Jahangirpuri to HUDA city centre) and Blue line (Dwarka Sector-21 to Noida City Centre/Vaishali).[14] Yellow line being the first one with eight coach trains.[6][7][13][15] The power output is supplied by 25-kilovolt, 50-hertz alternating current through overhead catenary. The metro has an average daily ridership of 2.4 million commuters, and, as of August 2010, had already carried over 1.25 billion commuters since its inception.[16] The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail and rail-based system in the world to get "carbon credits for reducing greenhouse gas emissions" and helping in reducing pollution levels in the city by 630,000 tonnes every year.[17]
Planning for the metro started in 1984, when the Delhi Development Authority and the Urban Arts Commission came up with a proposal for developing a multi-modal transport system for the city. The Government of India and the Government of Delhi jointly set up the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) registered on 3 May 1995 under The Companies Act, 1956. Construction started in 1998, and the first section, on the Red Line, opened in 2002, followed by the Yellow Line in 2004, the Blue Line in 2005, its branch line in 2009, the Green and Violet Lines in 2010, and the Delhi Airport Metro Express in 2011.
The recently opened Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon, whilst linked to it by the Yellow Line is a separate metro system (with a different owner/operator than the Delhi Metro), although tickets from the Delhi Metro can be used in its network.
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