Metro

Ahmedabad: Metro’s first trial run held:

AHMEDABAD: The official first trial run of an 

metro

 train in the city was conducted on 1km on the track between Vastral Gam and Apparel Park in Khokhra on Thursday.

For this trial, speed was restricted to 35km per hour, authorities say it will be pushed up to 90kmph over the next 10 days. The trial run, was conducted in the presence of senior 

Gujarat

 Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) officials. It will soon make longer trial runs on the 6.5km stretch between Apparel Park and Vastral Gam.

Officials said the GMRC informed the railway ministry’s Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) about the trial run and its officials are expected to arrive in the state by February 18. They said the stage is set for commercial runs by the second week of March, when it will likely be flagged off by PM Narendra Modi, if Lok Sabha elections have not been announced by then.

A senior metro official said, “We have written to the government that the metro train will be ready for commercial runs by the first week of March. If the LS polls are not announced by then, PM Modi is likely to inaugurate it.”