NCRTC completes first steel span of the RRTS corridor in Ghaziabad

New Delhi, December 10: The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) has now completed the installation of the first special steel span of Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor over mainline railway crossing near Vasundhara in Ghaziabad. This steel span is 73-metre long and weighs about 850 tonnes.

NCRTC is implementing the RRTS corridor, which connects Delhi with Ghaziabad, Murad Nagar, Modi Nagar and Meerut. Of this 82-km long corridor, total of 70 km is elevated, and 12 km is underground. With this - the successful installation of this special steel span, another milestone had been achieved in the construction of RRTS corridor between Delhi and Meerut, said the NCRTC.

This is the first special steel span of the 17-km priority section from Sahibabad to Duhai, which is targeted to be commissioned by 2023. Another special steel span of about 150 mt is under way just before Ghaziabad RRTS Ssation where under construction RRTS viaduct is crossing over a road flyover and Delhi Metro viaduct together.

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The NCRTC said, “More than 14,000 workers and 1,100 engineers are working tirelessly on the 82-km long RRTS corridor where more than 1100 piers of the elevated section have been erected.” According to the NCRTC, over 50 km of the foundation work, and approximately 14 km of viaduct have been completed, and most of it is located in priority section.