METRO MOVES!

30 Dec 2025 CW Team

There is no clearer sign that India’s metro-rail revolution is no longer a big-city story than having a metro in 23 cities. From being one-off projects in Kolkata and Delhi, metro rails have evolved into a national urban transformation project aiming at reshaping mobility, land use and sustainability in every city with an operational metro.

However, this project has neither seen uniform success across cities, nor success in every city.

Experts in unison agree with the observation of Vipul Surana, Senior Vice President and Head of Transit and Rail, India, AECOM: “The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s extensive network of interconnected corridors has played a transformative role in reshaping mobility across the National Capital Region,” reducing emissions and road congestion at scale, and enabling major transit-oriented development around some corridors...

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