Allahabad Monorail

Allahabad Monorail

Overview
Locale	Allahabad, U.P.
Transit type	Monorail
Number of lines	2 (planned and likely to be extend to villages)
Number of stations	23 (planned)
Technical
System length	70.4 km (43.7 mi)

Allahabad Monorail is a planned monorail for serving the city of Allahabad. All the villages to be connected according to state government. Allahabad has somewhere around 70,000 villages and very soon all will be connected to cities. Now a farmer can have metro card in his dhoti. A farmer boy can come to city coaching institute and safely return to home in evening. A survey was carried out by the officials of Allahabad Development Authority for identifying 70-kilometre stretch of land for the project. The plan came into existence after receiving directives from the state government.^[1]

Network

There are 2 lines proposed at cost of ₹11,100 crore. The per-kilometre cost of the Allahabad monorail will be around ₹150 crore. The first route covers a distance of 30.2 kilometre from east to west. The second route stretches 40.2 kilometre from north to south.^[1]

Route 1
#	Station Name
1	Manauri
2	Bamrauli
3	Sulem Sarai
4	Chauphatka
5	Allahabad High Court
6	Allahahad Junction
7	Civil Lines Bus Terminal
8	P.D. Tandon Park
9	KP College
10	Tularambagh
11	Sangam
12	Jhusi
13	Chak Hariharvan

Route 2
#	Station Name
1	Allahabad Bypass Expressway Crossing
2	Teliyargang
3	Govindpur
4	IERT
5	Georgetown
6	C.M.P. Degree College
7	Kydganj
8	Naini
9	ITI
10	Behura Crossing

References

1. "After Mumbai, Allahabad likely to get monorail". Hindustan Times (Lucknow/ALLAHABAD METRO). February 9, 2014.