Back in February the Robbins crew and contractor Afcons Infrastructure Ltd (Mumbai)/ Sam India Builtwell Pvt Ltd (Delhi) celebrated the site acceptance test for the first of two 6.65 m diameter and 95 m long EPB TBMs at Agra Metro. The machine began boring a 1.3 km long tunnel in soft soils, for Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (UPMRC). With the first TBM well into tunnelling, a second 6.65 m Robbins EPB underwent site acceptance on April 13, 2023 to bore a parallel 1.3 km long tunnel in soft soils.
On April 26, 2023 work on the Agra Metro reached an important milestone! The first machine named Yamuna made an intermediate breakthrough into the Agra Fort station, completing the Jama Masjid to Agra Fort stretch of the metro. The machine, launched in February from the launch pit at Ramleela Maidan, bored a total of 345 m in sand and clay in just 77 days. The machine will now continue to the Taj Mahal station. The civil work for all underground stations has already been completed, while the TBMs are driven the tunnels.
UPMRC is striving to commence metro operations in March 2024, 6 months ahead of schedule.
The Joint Venture Italferr (Itay)/TYPSA (Spain) was awarded the General Consultant Engineering Services project for the Kanpur and Agra Metro rail lines in the state of Uttar Pradesh in 2020 for a total duration of 5 years.
The Integrated Mobility Plan has therefore envisaged the development of an Agra mass transit system along two priority corridors: Corridor-1 from Sikandra to Taj East Gate (14 km): 6.35 km elevated, 7.65 km underground, 13 stations; Corridor-2 from Agra Cantt to Kalindi Vihar (16.2 km): 15.4 km elevated, 0.8 km at grade, 14 stations.
Agra is the third most populated city in Uttar Pradesh. In recent decades it has experienced unprecedented expansion with a more than tenfold increase in urban area and an exponential growth in population that have greatly impacted the city's transportation system.
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