Kolkata Metro: Connect East2West Project

Finally Work has started on the East2West Metro. This is an ambitious project which entails connecting Howrah to Salt Lake. The proposed line is interesting as it will have underground and elevated sections.

I think the biggest challenge will the the section that will be a tunnel under the River Hooghly connecting Howrah Station to the Metropolis of Kolkata. Once completed thought, I think it will take the much needed load of off the Historic Howrah Bridge.

Lets see how long this project takes. The original Metro, India's first, took 22 years and is now being extended beyond Tollygunge on the south till Garia and beyond Dum Dum to Barrackpore, I hear.

This is the section on the E.M. Bypass in front of Mani Square Mall.