Meerut: Final RRTS stretch to undergo trial runs in May

The final 17km stretch—from Shatabdi Nagar to Modipuram in Meerut—of the 82km Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor will undergo trial runs in early May, officials said.

- Peeyush Khandelwal

GHAZIABAD: The final 17km stretch—from Shatabdi Nagar to Modipuram in Meerut—of the 82km Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor will undergo trial runs in early May, officials said.

Officials said that they expect to open the stretch, and the Delhi stretch from New Ashok Nagar to Sarai Kale Khan, by the June deadline.

"The trial runs on the remaining 17km stretch from Shatabdi Nagar to Modipuram in Meerut are likely to start in early May, and this is the final stretch of the 82km project. The tracks have been laid and we are installing overhead equipment and signalling," said Puneet Vats, public relations officer of National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), the agency executing the RRTS project.