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• After Gurgaon, Faridabad is all set to become the next city in the state to boast of having a Metro rail network. On Wednesday the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) started piling (laying of foundation for piers/pillars on which viaduct will be put up) work on the Badarpur-YMCA Chowk corridor. With this, the civil construction for the 13.875-km-long Metro corridor actually commenced. The first piling work started near Sector 28, Faidabad, on the Mathura Road national highway.

• "The average height of the pillars on this corridor will be approximately 9 metres and over 500 piers (pillar) will be erected to make the viaduct for this corridor. On this corridor we will be using specially designed pre-cast U-shaped girders to complete the viaduct in about 20 months. This is for the first time in our history where a single span of approximately 27 metres in length and weighing about 160 tonnes will be used. These spans will be cast in advance at a casting yard near Sector 12 and once the piers are erected, they will be brought to the site on trailers mostly during night hours and installed in the fastest possible time to avoid any inconvenience to the traffic running along the alignment," said a spokesperson.This fully elevated corridor will have nine stations and is likely to be operational by 2014. This is an extension of the already operational 20.16-km-long Central Secretariat-Badarpur corridor of Line 6 which is further extended from Central Secretariat to Kashmere Gate covering 9.36km.

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