Uttarakhand Metro Rail, DEHRADUN

Corporation (UKMRC) will build cutting-edge facilities.Within the next four years, Dehradun, Haridwar, and Rishikesh will have state-of-the-art fast transit systems.
to relieve traffic congestion,

MD (UKMRC) Jitendra Tyagi

The first Neo Metro line in the country would run along two corridors in Dehradun. In addition, Haridwar will be home to the country’s first Pod taxi’, he added, adding that the move will help the state’s environmentally friendly and cost-effective public transportation.

Neo Metro is a rubber-tired mass transit system powered by an overhead electric conductor. It travels on an elevated track. Pod taxis are driverless electric cars that travel on a specially built track.

Ropeways and Pod taxis will be constructed under PPP, while the Neo Metro project would be shared equally by the Centre and the state, according to the official. According to UKMRC MD Tyagi, the two Neo Metro routes from ISBT to Gandhi Bagh and FRI to Raipur will encompass the city’s breadth and length (22.42 km).

The Neo Metro train would have a top speed of 70 kilometres per hour and an average speed of 25 kilometres per hour. “The project is in the process of getting approval from the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, which has already been approved by the state government,” Tyagi explained.

He described the Pod taxis as covering a distance of 20.74 kilometres with 21 stops in Haridwar. The main stretch of the Pod taxi will be 14.55 kilometres long, connecting Sitapur (Jwalapur) to Bharat Mata Mandir via three tributary stretches: City Hospital to Daksh Mandir, Valmiki Chowk to Laltaro Bridge, and Ganeshpuram to DAV School.

The 2-kilometer-long ropeway will transport pilgrims in 9 minutes from Har Ki Pauri to Chadi Devi. Tyagi stated that they planned to construct Asia’s longest ropeway, measuring approximately 6.5 kilometres, in Rishikesh.

Information Source : TOI