National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), the nodal agency implementing the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), commissioned its site office in Gurugramon Wednesday for the Delhi-Gurugram-SNB RRTS corridor.
Meanwhile, pre-construction activities including geo-technical investigations, initial pile load tests, topographical surveys, shifting of electrical utilities are being carried out at various locations for the corridor.
Earlier these activities were managed by the NCRTC team from their temporary site office in Gurugram. The NCRTC team will now operate from the state of the art site office located at IFFCO Chowk.
The NCRTC has finalized a site for establishing a casting yard in Gurugram for the corridor. A casting yard is a place where concrete components like segments, boundary wall panels, casted, shifted to their stack yard, cured for the specific period, and then shifted to the working site after they gain their required strength.
The RRTS has also started detailed designing of three RRTS stations of the Delhi-Gurugram-SNB RRTS corridor. The NCRTC has appointed L&T infra as the Detailed Design Consultant (DDC) for providing consultancy services for the design of elevated viaduct between Udyog Vihar& Rajiv chowk stations and three RRTS stations at Udyog Vihar, Sector 17 and Rajeev Chowk.
"NCRTC is focussing on commuters’ ease while designing RRTS rather than opting for engineering comfort. Thus, all the RRTS stations including Udyog Vihar, sector 17 and Rajeev Chowk will be universally accessible, will have pedestrian friendly zones/paths, lifts/escalators, sitting areas among various other commuter-centric amenities facilitating ease of access. All the RRTS stations will have platform screen doors for enhanced commuter safety," said Vinay Kumar Singh, Managing Director, NCRTC.
The 107-km long Delhi-Gurugram-SNB corridor will have 16 stations. Once operational, the corridor is expected to bring down the travel time between Delhi-SNB to about 70 minutes as compared to the current 3-4 hr of travel by road
