Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) is giving finishing touches to the Thripunithura terminal station to extend metro services in the 1.20-km S.N. Junction-Thripunithura extension, even as Commissioner for Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) Anant M. Chowdhary concluded his two-day inspection of the corridor on Tuesday.
“He inspected passenger amenities, signalling and other systems, and the track. We hope the CMRS will issue permission to extend metro trains in the corridor, following which passengers will be able to commute the entire 28-km phase-I stretch from Aluva to Thripunithura. The extension has as a prime attraction a 60-metre-long open-web girder bridge across the road near S.N. Junction,” metro sources said.
Once commissioned, it will mark the culmination of the first phase of the metro corridor, which has a total of 25 stations. The Thripunithura terminal station has three platforms and three tracks, keeping in mind the metro’s future extensions, including linking it with the metro’s phase-II Kakkanad extension that will end at Infopark.
