Thackeray has directed MMRCL not to cut a single tree in Aarey Colony area – which was rejected as the original proposed site for a car-shed – and instead in Marol-Maroshi Road for conducting train trials. Build a ramp.
A day after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray gave the go ahead, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) on Friday said it plans to start trial runs for the Mumbai Metro 3 line by early 2022.
MMRCL managing director Ranjit Singh Deol said the state government has allowed MMRCL to build a temporary facility – a test track area for train delivery and technical testing of prototype 8-coach trains, which are to reach here by December .
He said that after a period of two weeks to collect the train coaches, by January 2022, trials for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz fully underground Mumbai Metro 3 corridor will begin.
The test will be conducted in an area vacated by the diversion of the road for an upcoming underpass from the mouth of a ramp to the west of the Marol-Maroshi Road in Andheri East.
The ramp connecting the underground part of the metro line to the surface – the one coming here is about 225 meters long.
Deol said that currently, two metro trains of 8-8 cars each are ready, a third is under construction and for the trial program of the prototype train, the parking will be at the temporary facility on Marol-Maroshi Road.
The development comes amid fears that a centre-state towing project for the car-shed depot may delay the project by two years while an alternative site is being acquired for the iconic Mumbai Metro Line 3.
Thackeray has directed MMRCL not to cut a single tree in Aarey Colony area – which was rejected as the original proposed site for a car-shed – and instead in Marol-Maroshi Road for conducting train trials. Build a ramp.
The manufacturer, Alstom, has already conducted technical trials of 8-car trains in SriCity, Andhra Pradesh, and now the trains are coming to Mumbai for a rigorous 10,000-km test before Mumbai Metro 3 operations begin with 31 trains.
Deol said that at present, 97 per cent of the tunnel work and about 70 per cent of the civil work for Line 3 is ready and the technical testing of the prototype train will be a major milestone.
Incidentally, through a NITI Aayog delegation that visited the state recently, Thackeray again appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and end the dispute over the Kanjurmarg site selected for the Mumbai Metro carshed, which is a Stuck in a legal dispute.
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