KOCHI (Metro Rail News): On April 25, Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate Kochi Water Metro, the nation’s first Water Metro service.
At a ceremony in Thiruvananthapuram, the eagerly awaited project will be unveiled with other construction initiatives.
The Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) is anticipated to formally reveal the specifics of the Water Metro services, including a detailed schedule. The preparations for the service launch have been finished by KMRL, the organisation in charge of carrying out the project. This includes building the terminals and testing the boats.
A number of trial runs for nine hybrid boats built by the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) for the project’s first phase’s launch on the High Court-Bolgatty-Vypeen route and the Vyttila-Kakkanad route was completed months ago.
According to the sources, KMRL learnt on Wednesday that the Water Metro will be formally launched. The official announcements regarding the service’s specifics and timing would follow later.
The Water Metro project consists of 15 routes that have been established, linking 38 terminals located in ten island communities and boatyards. The routes are around 76 kilometres long in total.
KMRL had previously chosen to limit the service’s initial rollout to travellers travelling on the HC-Bolgatty-Vypeen route. But as of now, they have chosen to run the service on the Vyttila-Kakkanad line as well in the initial stages.
