Lucknow: The smartness of Lucknow has increased after the launch of metro services here and it has become a Smart City”, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath opened Lucknow Metro this afternoon, The 8.5 km stretch will be open for public from Wednesday, In his address, the Chief Minister said the state is exploring the chance of opening metro services in at least eight other cities, including Varanasi, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, “I devote this metro service to Vajpayeeji,” he said, referring to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who had represented Lucknow in the Lok Sabha,
The Lucknow Metro connects the Charbagh railway station to Transport Nagar, It would eventually stretch to the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, which would be two stations away, The 8.5-km stretch, with eight elevated stations, has been call the “Priority Corridor”, Part of the Phase 1 of the Lucknow Metro project, took around three years to increase the line to complete, the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation has called it a record, The metro services will be open to the people from 6 am to 10 pm every day, The highest fare, between the two terminal stations, is Rs. 30,The Chief Minister said work on the other phases of the Luck now Metro project will be completed soon, The state has also proposed an umbrella body which would explore the launch of metro services in several other cities, including Varanasi, Kanpur, Agra, Moradabad, Allahabad, Meerut, Gorakhpur and Jhansi.
