NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro has proposed two new high-speed corridors that will enable commutation from the New Delhi Railway Station to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in less than 20 minutes.
"We are going to present the proposals to the government and, if approved, the project will be a part of the second phase of Delhi Metro," said DMRC chief E Sreedharan on the sideline of a conference on mass transit system here.
The two corridors - linking the railway station with the airport and Patel Chowk with Badarpur - will be of 20 km each.
"We are already in touch with the Airports Authority of India and the proposal will soon be submitted to the aviation ministry for the airport corridor," Sreedharan said, adding that there will be only one stop on the route.
He said the speed of the train on these lines will not be less than 70 kmph. "The government has sanctioned the second phase of the metro spread across a length of 76 km and the approval of the two new corridors will make it 116 km."
The second phase would be completed before the Commonwealth Games 2010 to be hosted in the capital, he said.
"The government had given us 10 years to complete the first phase but we completed it in just seven years and three months. We are sure that the second phase - with or without the high-speed corridors - will be completed within four years," he said.
The majority of the work will be completed through the help of indigenous know-how. "For the second phase, there is a need of 600 coaches and we are in touch with a Bangalore-based company to procure it," Sreedharan.
