PM Modi opens Blue Line extension

Noida: The 6.6-km Noida City Centre-Noida Electronic City section, an extension of the Delhi Metro’s Blue Line in the satellite city was on Saturday thrown open to the public, hours after it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The extension will benefit the people of Noida and bring the Blue Line close to the recently-opened Aqua Line — run by Noida Metro, which connects Noida and Greater Noida. But both the lines have different travel cards at the moment, unlike the Rapid Metro in Gurgaon, wherein DMRC metro cards are valid for travel.

The Sector-52 station of the DMRC’s Blue Line is very close to the Sector-51 station on the Aqua Line, operated by the Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) and its commuters are awaiting last-mile connectivity between the two lines.

There is a distance of around 300 metre between the Sector-51 metro station, the terminus of the Aqua Line in Noida and the upcoming Sector-52 metro station of the Blue Line.

The services of the new section began at 4 pm and frequency of trains on this section during peak hours would be 5 minutes and 26 seconds.

Services also began on Saturday morning on the 9.63-km-long Dilshad Garden-Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda) section, an extension of the Delhi Metro’s Red Line to Ghaziabad, a day after Mr Modi flagged off the section, making the DMRC foray into the interiors of Ghaziabad for the first time.

This entirely-elevated section with eight stations, is an extension of the 25.09-km Rithala-Dilshad Garden corridor of Red Line, which has 21 stations. After opening of this section, the entire Red Line will become 34.72 km with 29 stations.