{"id":20460,"date":"2014-09-10T15:33:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=20460"},"modified":"2014-09-10T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:03:53","slug":"light-metro-trivandrum-and-kozhikode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/light-metro-trivandrum-and-kozhikode\/","title":{"rendered":"Works for Light Metro at Trivandrum and Kozhikode may begin in 4 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Month, <a title=\"Light Metro to replace Trivandrum and Kozhikode Monorail Projects\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/light-metro-trivandrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">the State government has scrapped the much-hyped monorail project in Trivandrum and Kozhikode due to its high project cost. <\/a>Instead, Kerala Monorail Corporation Limited (KMCL) has decided to look into alternative proposals such as the Light Metro.<\/p>\n<p>Now in the latest development of the project, the civil work for the elevated light metro could begin in four months if the government completes the formalities soon. DMRC, the consultant for the project in Trivandrum and Kozhikode is finalising a detailed project report (DPR) to be submitted to the government by October 15.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf the government gives the green signal, we can call for civil tenders and start actual construction within four months as is happening in Lucknow and Jaipur,\u201d sources told The Hindu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the country is familiar with the Metro rail technology, there was no need to obtain a single contractor to do civil works, signalling and electrification, and the rolling stock. However, the light metro is a new technology to the country and separate tenders are needed. This will also help to save project cost and time.<\/p>\n<p>The light metro system will be a regular metro with small coaches and low axle load of 12-13 tonnes capable of negotiating very sharp curves and steep gradients. The system can carry up to 25,000 people per hour per direction traffic (PHPDT) compared to the medium capacity metro such as in Kochi that could carry up to 45,000 PHPDT.<\/p>\n<p>The elevated light metro system would cost about Rs.160 to 180 crore per kilometre. For comparison, the medium capacity normal metro would cost Rs 250 crore per kilometre. Light metros can meet the requirements of Trivandrum and Kozhikode in a more dependable manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Month, the State government has scrapped the much-hyped monorail project in Trivandrum and Kozhikode due to its high project cost. Instead, Kerala Monorail Corporation Limited (KMCL) has decided to look into alternative proposals such as the Light Metro. Now in the latest development of the project, the civil work for the elevated light metro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-20460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-light-metro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}