The Bengaluru Metro Rail Company Restricted (BMRCL) began trial runs from Whitefield Metro station to Pattandur Agrahara within the Whitefield part of the Bengaluru Metro’s under-construction Purple Line on Friday.
“BMRCL began its practice trials from Whitefield Metro station to Pattandur Agrahara,” a BMRCL spokesperson stated Friday. The Pattandur Agrahara station is within the Worldwide Expertise Park area of Whitefield the place a number of IT corporations are situated.
The three.5km Whitefield-Pattandur Agrahara stretch is a part of the R1B stretch of the Bengaluru Metro’s 15 km Baiyappanahalli to Whitefield Purple Line.
The Purple Line from Baiyappanahalli to Whitefield may have stops at Benniganahalli, Okay R Puram, Mahadevapura, Garudacharpalya, Hoodi Junction, Seetharama Palya, Kundalahalli, Nallurhalli, Sri Sathya Sai Hospital, Pattandur Agrahara (ITPL), Kadugodi, and Channasandra.
The BMRCL is predicted to run trials subsequent week between Baiyapanahalli to Okay R Puram on the R1A stretch of the Purple Line with one cease at Benniganahalli.
The primary practice on Trial run began from Whitefield to ITPL..
As soon as full line operational it’ll join #whitefield and #kengeri by way of coronary heart of metropolis @IndianExpress pic.twitter.com/Dw3nRZkZIm— Kiran Parashar (@KiranParashar21) October 21, 2022
The much-awaited Purple Line is predicted to be opened in February-March 2023.
The BMRCL is making an attempt to start trial runs on the much-awaited Purple Line extension from Baiyappanahalli to Whitefield on October 25, senior BMRCL officers stated earlier this month.
The trials of the Purple Line between Baiyapanahalli and Okay R Puram had been initially slated to start in September however BMRCL missed the deadline attributable to delays reportedly brought on by the heavy rainfall in Bengaluru on the time.
BMRCL Managing Director Anjum Parvez stated that they had been “making an attempt to start trials on October 25’”. The BMRCL was earlier concentrating on a December 2022 completion of the extension to Whitefield if the trials had been to start in September.
Final month, the BMRCL MD said that efforts had been being made to conduct the trials in the midst of October. “The trial run scheduled earlier was delayed attributable to rainfall. It’s now postponed to mid-week of October. Nevertheless, we now have already began the guide trolly trials, that are often executed earlier than experimenting with the trains. The trial runs with the practice will go on for no less than two months until December,” the BMRCL MD stated in September.
The Baiyapanahalli to Whitefield stretch of the Purple Line runs over 15 km and may have two reaches – R1A, an 8.67 km stretch from Baiyappanahalli to Seetharama Palya, and R1B, a 7.14 km stretch from Seetharama Palya to Whitefield.
The Baiyapanahalli-Whitefield Bengaluru Metro line is predicted to profit round 3 lakh passengers. It is going to come as a welcome aid to hundreds of commuters who’re compelled to endure over two hours in visitors daily to get to Whitefield or journey to town from Whitefield.
“The opening of the road earlier than the New 12 months is unlikely. Though main building work is already accomplished, we’re establishing a 65-meter single girder at Baiyappanahalli depot, simply forward of the railway crossing. There’s different depot work remaining the place we now have to arrange a ramp to deliver the practice to the depot at Baiyappanahalli. The general public can use the road in February 2023 if all issues go properly,” Parvez stated in September.