Purple Line (Pune Metro)

Purple Line of the Pune Metro is the first line of the city's under-construction mass transit network. It will run from PCMC building in Pimpri to Swargate. The 16.59-km line will be elevated till Range Hills with 9 stations and will further go underground up to Swargate with 5 stations.

Route
Pune Metro (Purple line & Aqua line)
PCMC Bhavan
Sant Tukaram Nagar
Nashik Phata
Kasarwadi
Ramwadi
Phugewadi
Kalyani Nagar
Dapodi
Yerwada
Bopodi
Bund Garden
Khadki
Ruby Hall Clinic
Range Hills
Pune Junction
Shivaji Nagar
Mangalwar Peth
 Civil Court
PMC Bhavan
Budhwar Peth
Chhatrapati Sambhaji Udyan
Mahatma Phule Mandai
Deccan Gymkhana
Swargate
Garware College
Nal Stop
Ideal Colony
Anand Nagar
Vanaz
Bhusari Colony
Chandani Chowk

The line will go via Kasarwadi (Nashik Phata), Khadki and Shivajinagar.[1][2] The maintenance depot for the Purple Line will be located near the Range Hills station on the land acquired from the College of Agriculture.[3][4]

Construction

Soil testing and topographical surveys of the concerned areas started in late December 2016. Excavation work for erection of pillars started in early June, 2017. The construction of the first pillar was completed by October 2017 and construction work of up to ten pillars was underway. The first viaduct was completely erected by January 2018.[5] The first batch of tracks were laid between PCMC and Sant Tukaramnagar in the second week of July 2019.[6]

List of Stations

Following is a list of stations on this route-

Purple Line
# Station Name Connections Opening Alignment
English Marathi
1 PCMC पिंपरी-चिंचवड None Under Construction Elevated
2 Sant Tukaram Nagar संत तुकाराम नगर None Under Construction Elevated
3 Bhosari (Nashik Phata) भोसरी (नाशिक फाटा) None Under Construction Elevated
4 Kasarwadi कासारवाडी None Under Construction Elevated
5 Phugewadi फुगेवाडी None Under Construction Elevated
6 Dapodi दापोडी None Under Construction Elevated
7 Bopodi बोपोडी None Under Construction Elevated
8 Khadki खडकी None Under Construction Elevated
9 Range Hills रेंज हिल्स None Under Construction Elevated
10 Shivaji Nagar शिवाजी नगर Line 3 (planned) Under Construction Underground
11 Civil Court सिव्हिल कोर्ट      Aqua Line & Line 3 Under Construction Underground
12 Budhwar Peth बुधवार पेठ None Under Construction Underground
13 Mahatma Phule Mandai महात्मा फुले मंडई None Under Construction Underground
14 Swargate स्वारगेट None Under Construction Underground

References
  1. pune-metro-full-presentation. Slideshare.net (29 April 2010).
  2. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation to revise metro rail project report The Times Of India (27 September 2012).
  3. "College of Agriculture campus, a green lung, loses 119 acres to govt projects in three decades". The Indian Express. 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  4. "Pune Metro work hits top gear". Hindustan Times. 2017-12-23. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  5. "MahaMetro Project Update". punemetrorail.org. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  6. "MahaMetro lays tracks between PCMC and Sant Tukaramnagar". The Times of India. July 13, 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
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