NEW DELHI: The capital’s Indira Gandhi International Airport came closer to west and east Delhi on Saturday thanks to a 1.2km foot overbridge (FOB) with travelators connecting the Airport Express Line’s Dhaula Kuan station to the Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus station of Pink Line (Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar). The FOB was once opened to public on Saturday.
The South Campus station changed into operational in March 2018, but the paintings on the connecting FOB got not on time due to engineering and visitors challenges.
Though the Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus station on Pink Line is ready a kilometre away from the Dhaula Kuan station of Airport Express Line, commuters travelling with luggage discovered the trek onerous. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) managing director Mangu Singh had first recommended that a FOB with travelators be built to attach the two stations.
The FOB connects the platforms of the Durga Bai Deshmukh South Campus Metro station with the concourse degree of Dhaula Kuan station. “It can be a crucial link for the passengers of the Pink Line and the Airport Express Line. Passengers travelling to and from the Terminal-3 of IGI can interchange trains with its lend a hand,” a DMRC spokesperson mentioned. “DMRC may now not have constructed a station closer to the Dhaula Kuan Metro station as a result of the complex geographical challenges.”
The FOB has 22 travelators, 11 on each and every side, with a landing area of about 15 metres between them. The width is ready 6.1 metres. It is semi-covered by way of a curved roof on best and aluminium louvre on the aspects with glass railings. “It is equipped with safety and security options like CCTV cameras, lights and PA device and many others. The cameras are put in at strategic places and can be monitored round the clock to verify safety,” the spokesperson mentioned.
DMRC mentioned that development of the FOB was once a big engineering problem, due to the presence of more than one prime rigidity power traces at nearly all pillar places. “Manual breaking of exhausting rock across the 220KV prime rigidity line to erect pillars was once additionally time eating, and required meticulous planning and tracking,” the spokesperson mentioned.
The South Campus station changed into operational in March 2018, but the paintings on the connecting FOB got not on time due to engineering and visitors challenges.
Though the Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus station on Pink Line is ready a kilometre away from the Dhaula Kuan station of Airport Express Line, commuters travelling with luggage discovered the trek onerous. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) managing director Mangu Singh had first recommended that a FOB with travelators be built to attach the two stations.
The FOB connects the platforms of the Durga Bai Deshmukh South Campus Metro station with the concourse degree of Dhaula Kuan station. “It can be a crucial link for the passengers of the Pink Line and the Airport Express Line. Passengers travelling to and from the Terminal-3 of IGI can interchange trains with its lend a hand,” a DMRC spokesperson mentioned. “DMRC may now not have constructed a station closer to the Dhaula Kuan Metro station as a result of the complex geographical challenges.”
The FOB has 22 travelators, 11 on each and every side, with a landing area of about 15 metres between them. The width is ready 6.1 metres. It is semi-covered by way of a curved roof on best and aluminium louvre on the aspects with glass railings. “It is equipped with safety and security options like CCTV cameras, lights and PA device and many others. The cameras are put in at strategic places and can be monitored round the clock to verify safety,” the spokesperson mentioned.
DMRC mentioned that development of the FOB was once a big engineering problem, due to the presence of more than one prime rigidity power traces at nearly all pillar places. “Manual breaking of exhausting rock across the 220KV prime rigidity line to erect pillars was once additionally time eating, and required meticulous planning and tracking,” the spokesperson mentioned.
Delhi: FOB linking Pink and Airport lines opens
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