Good news for travelers as Delhi Metro Gold Line to connect Delhi Airport T1 and T3; new metro station to come up at…

Delhi Metro: The upcoming Delhi Metro Gold Line will provide direct connectivity between Terminal 1 and Terminal of the Delhi Airport, providing a major relief to travelers at India’s busiest airport. According to Videh Kumar Jaipuriar, the CEO of Delhi Airport operator DIAL, a new integrated metro station is being planned to provide connectivity between Aerocity and T1.

“The Golden Line was earlier supposed to come up to the Aerocity. We have convinced the DMRC (Delhi Metro Rail Corporation) to extend it up to T1. So, that will actually act as one of the metro lines which will connect from T1 to Aerocity and from Aerocity, we have got the airport line,” the DIAL CEO told news agency PTI in an interview.

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, the country’s busiest airport, has three terminals, and while Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 are located close by, Terminal 1 is a few kilometres away.

Notably, at present, the Delhi Metro Orange Line or the Airport Metro Express Line, provides connectivity to T3, while Magenta Line connects T1. However, there is no direct connectivity between T1 and T3.

New metro station to come up on Gold Line

Jaipuriar said efforts are underway to build an integrated station at Aerocity, as there is already airport metro line connectivity, and the new metro station will come up on the Golden Line, aka the Tughlakabad-Aerocity corridor, which is part of Phase-IV of Delhi Metro currently under construction.

“RRTS (Regional Railway Transport Service) is coming to the Aerocity, and even one of the APM (Automated People Mover) stations is supposed to be located there as per the current layout. So, it will be an integrated station… a multi-modal connectivity,” he said.

DIAL to introduce ‘air train’

According to DIAL, it also plans to introduce an ‘air train’ to provide seamless connectivity between T1 and the other two terminals, T2 and T3, which is proposed be an elevated cum at-grade Automated People Mover (APM) System at the airport on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer model basis.

Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), a GMR Group-led consortium, is operating the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in the national capital. The airport, which has three terminals and four runways, currently can handle more than 100 million passengers annually.

(With PTI inputs)

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