Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Lucknow Metro flagged-off
LUCKNOW: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath opened Lucknow Metro this afternoon. The 8.5 km stretch will be open for public from Wednesday. In his address, the Chief Minister said the state is exploring the possibility of opening metro services in at least eight other cities, including Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency. "I devote this metro service to Vajpayeeji," he said, referring to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who had represented Lucknow in the Lok Sabha.In his address, Yogi Adityanath said, "The smartness of Lucknow has increased after the launch of metro services here and it has become a Smart City".
- The state has proposed an umbrella body which would explore the launch of metro services in several other cities, including Varanasi, Kanpur, Agra, Moradabad, Allahabad, Meerut, Gorakhpur and Jhansi.
- The Chief Minister has requested metroman E Sridharan to be the principal advisor to the umbrella body. The corporation will also explore the possibility of monorail services in some parts of the state.
- The rapid transport system Lucknow Metro stretches connects the Charbagh railway station to Transport Nagar.
- The 8.5-km stretch, with elevated stations, has been dubbed the "Priority Corridor". It is the Phase 1 of the Lucknow Metro project, which took around three years to complete.
- The metro services will be open to the people from 6 am to 10 pm every day.
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