New Delhi, Sept 17:
More than two months after the Airport Metro Express line was shut down by the concessionaire citing safety concerns, the Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath on Monday said repair work on the premier line was expected to end in October.
He was responding to reporters who asked him about the status of the Airport Metro, the country’s first public-private partnership Metro project, which suspended its services on July 8 after structural faults were detected.
“We are expecting the repair work on the Airport Metro Express Line to be completed by the end of October,” he said.
The Minister was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a FICCI conference on “Urban Infrastructure -PPP for Better Public Service”.
Nath also said, “Monorail is 40 per cent cheaper than Metro and it can do much sharper curves. It can go up and down, which the Metro cannot. The monorail corridor would provide intra-city transport service in congested localities, where the Metro and even buses may find plying difficult,” he said.
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