DMRC announces construction of interchange station on green and pink line, issues new timings for first and last trains

DMRC announced the construction of an additional interchange facility at the Punjabi Bagh West Metro station, connecting the Metro’s Green Line and Pink Line.

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro on Thursday (June 17, 2021) announced the construction of an additional interchange facility at the Punjabi Bagh West Metro station, connecting the Metro’s Green Line (Inderlok/Kirti Nagar-Brigadier Hoshiar Singh Bahadurgarh) and Pink Line (Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar). The Delhi Metro statement stated that for the construction of this additional interchange facility, the timings of the first and the last train on the Green Line will be altered slightly from June 18 to September 30. The DMRC also said the ‘halt platforms’ will be 155 m in length. “This is the first time that such a special ‘halt platform’ is being planned to connect two already operational Metro corridors. This halt platform will provide interconnectivity between the Green and Pink lines at Punjabi Bagh West Metro station of Pink Line,” DMRC said in a statement issued on Thursday.