Namma Metro s Mysuru Road-Kengeri Line launch postponed
In light of the pandemic and the resultant labour shortage, the launch of the second line of Metro Phase-II between Mysuru Road and Kengeri has been postponed by a month to July.
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Bengaluru Metro Managing Director Rakesh Singh takes the metro to inspect the Mysuru Road-Kengeri Line on Thursday | Express By Express News Service
BENGALURU: In light of the pandemic and the resultant labour shortage, the launch of the second line of Metro Phase-II between Mysuru Road and Kengeri has been postponed by a month to July. This marks a series of postponements for the Line, originally set for Rajyotsava Day last year with July 20 being the latest deadline. After inspecting the Kengeri station on this line on Thursday morning,
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In the lead-up to the 2014 state election, then-opposition leader Daniel Andrews promised the Metro Tunnel would be built with one-third of funding provided by the state, one-third from the private sector and one-third from the Commonwealth.
One federal government cabinet minister told
The Age the Andrews government had pushed the Commonwealth for cash for the Metro Tunnel in the lead-up to Tuesday’s budget.
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The rail tunnel, which will connect South Kensington to South Yarra through five underground stations, was initially costed at $11 billion, but has blown out by $2.7 billion.
In October the state government reached a deal with the consortium building the Metro Tunnel project, Cross Yarra Partnership, which agreed to pay an extra $1.37 billion on the project. The remaining $1.37 billion will be picked up by Victorian taxpayers and is expected to be included in the state budget when it’s handed down later this month.
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