The low floor buses will start running in Kochi from today onwards. At the first phase seven buses are introduced. The inauguration will be conducted in the evening at Vytilla Junction by Union Minister K.V Thomas. At the first phase 7 buses are introduced. Initially these buses will run in 2 fixed routes. They are Fort Kochi-Kakkanad and Aroor- Angamaly. The buses are manufactured by Volvo and are specially designed to suit with the public transportation needs. Twenty drivers and twenty conductors are specially trained by Volvo in its training centre at Bangalore. They are also provided with a recent refresher course here at Kochi. One single bus cost around 80 lakh rupees. The minimum ticket charge is fixed as Rs 10. The buses are under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission scheme. More number of buses will be allotted on the basis of the feedback on this first set. The low floor buses can provide a new experience to the passengers. This is a great milestone in the history of Cochin.

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Cochin Metro Rail will come soon

As per the latest reports the Cochin Metro Rail will be ready for use shortly. The state government Kerala has decided to call for a meeting to discuss the same next month says the Chief Minister V. S. Achyuthanandan. The Kerala CM has given orders to the higher officials of it to do the requirements with the central government of India. It will make the Metro Rail Cochin come into existence soon. He has discussed the project with the DMRC chairman Mr. E. Sreedharan for the permission to be granted to have the metro rail over the National highway. If the permission is granted, the long awaited Cochin metro rail will be a fact in a couple of months.

The Cochin metro rail will be the most beautiful one among all the metro rails of the world. The travel in the Cochin metro train will offer us the attractive beauty of city life and village together one after other. The launch of Cochin metro rail will be a great gift to the city life of Cochin. The main advantage of the Cochin metro rail is that it will reduce the road traffic in and around Cochin and will save us a lot of time and money. It will also give more options new of businesses. So, let’s hope any malpractice is not done with it and let come into true as soon as possible.

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It is a well known fact that some of the politicians and old minded people of India in past restricted the advent of computers to India. We also know the result and merits of computers today. The very fact that you are now reading this article written from some other corner of the world will prove the advantage of the discovery of computer. The advent of metro rail in Cochin, Kerala, India repeats the history. Though there were many obstacles the Metro Kochi rail had to face it is now going to be the main attraction of Cochin. The Metro rail will make the city of Cochin faster and sophisticated.

The advent of Metro rail in Cochin will make the Cochin business faster. And the faster business will bring us more profit faster. The over populated city people of Cochin can move faster from place to place to reach their work station and home. It will attract more business openings to Cochin.

The Kochi Metro is a mass transit system for the South Indian city of Cochin to be launched very soon. By soon I mean 2011. It happens due to the poor politics and governance of the state Kerala. The metro rail will be operated by Kochi Metro Rail Corporation and there is a proposal to extend the metro rail Cochin to the international airport of Cochin, Nedumbassery. The Rs 3,048-crore Kochi Metro rail project will be change the face of the city of Cochin. But it is a sad thing that the Dubai metro rail which started much later than the Kochi metro rail launches in a very short duration before the project metro Cochin rail.

The undertaking of the state government of Kerala Kochi metro rail project is to facilitate transportation in the industrial city of Cochin, Kerala. The starting point of Metro rail in Cochin is in Alwaye and the proposed ending point is the place called Pettah. The project Cochin metro rail is 25 kms long.

The economic significance of Kochi has a lot to do with the advent of Metro rail Cochin. The backwater tourism and the traditional tourist spots will have a better time with the Metro rail. The following are the proposed stops of the metro rail in Cochin. Aluva, Pulinchode, Companypady, Ambattukavu, Muttom, Apollo Tyres, St.Mary’s Church, Kalamassery, Pathady palam, Edappally Toll Junction, Edappally, Palarivattom, International stadium, Kaloor, Lissie Junction, Madhava Pharmacy, Maharaja’s Ground, Ernakulam South junction, GCDA Junction, Fathima Church, Elumkulam, Vyttilla, Thykoodam, Poonithura and Pettah. It means that the metro in Cochin will touch all the major parts of the city of Cochin. Thus it will be helpful for all kinds of business and tourism. It will also be helpful to the daily passengers of Cochin.

Since it has almost 24 stops between the 25 kms the metro it can acquire only 35kms/hour which is the speed of the city bus services. This project will help the commercial Cochin, industrial Cochin, economic Cochin, tourism Cochin, sports Cochin, entertainment Cochin, educational Cochin and business Cochin. Cochin thus joins the group of metro rail cities. It will thus reduce the road traffic jam in Cochin. With the launch of the metro train in Cochin, the road traffic will be faster. The traffic jams will be removed in no time. Obviously the problem of long traffic jams will be out of question. It make the workers/students start late from home and reach in time to the work stations.

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