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The route
will span Noida Sector 15, Sector 16, Sector 18, Noida
Botanical Garden Station, Golf Course Station and Sector 32
City Centre Station. This is an extension of the Games
Village line, which will span the Yamuna Depot, the Games
Village, Mayur Vihar Phase I and II, New Ashok Nagar and
then move onto Noida.
The Noida extension has a total cost outlay of 736 crore.
The UP government will bear the capital cost of network (Rs
611 crore) and the cost of land (Rs 32 crore) while DMRC
will spend Rs 93 crore as rolling stock.
“The line will be operational before the Commonwealth Games
2010. The incremental traffic due to Noida corridor is
expected to be 53,000 per day by 2011,” said Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit today.
The DMRC, meanwhile, is also working on the Detailed Project
Report for a 29-km Light Rail Transit Corridor in Greater
Noida. “It is not decided yet whether DMRC will lay the
corridor, but we are working on the report and it should be
ready by August. This will extend till Pari Chowk in Greater
Noida, and will have an interchange facility with the Delhi
Metro,” said CBK Rao, Director Projects and Planning, DMRC.
The barricading for the project has already been done.
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