The three stakeholders Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana approved the comprehensive mobility plan (CMP) for mass rapid transit system (MRTS), a pre-requisite set by the ministry of urban development for funding most of the project. They had selected Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC) to prepare a detailed project report (DPR).
Prepared by RITES, the CMP draws a broad outline of the project, extending Metro Rail to Panchkula in Haryana and Mohali in Punjab. Besides, passengers from catchment areas of the two states and Himachal Pradesh will also be ferried to the nearest Metro station.
RITES had extended Metro to Panchkula after much brainstorming, with the end-station there to be set up in Sector 21, linking it to Chandigarh’s last stop at Housing Board Chowk in Manimajra. There will be five Metro corridors, including a 5-km-long stretch into Panchkula and another 12-km link for Mohali, connecting Sector 104 to Chandigarh’s Sector 52. The other three corridors are Khuda Lahora-IT Park on Madhya Marg, Sector 1-ISBT 43-Sector 52 on the Himalaya Marg and Sector 26-Sector 38-Dadumajra covering Purva Marg and Vikas Marg.
Solutions to traffic congestion offered by RITES include a large network of medium-level mass transport system such as bus rapid transit (BRT) to cover areas beyond Metro network and overloaded corridors. Besides, there are provisions of land use adjustments, densification along mass transport corridors and commuter rail system up to Ambala, Pinjore-Kalka, Ludhiana and Baddi-Nalagarh.
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