Points: A novel project — Partial operation — Future extension.
The two most exciting things in Calcutta today arc the two new Rails—the Metro and the Circular. Both have started operating, but both are incomplete. Calcutta has several Circular Roads, such as the Upper and the Lower Circular Roads (now renamed as Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Road respectively), Ballygunge Circular Road and Tollygunge Circular Road. But the idea of encircling the entire city with a circular railway is a recent one, and it was partially translated into a reality only in 1984. The debate on ‘Metro Rail versus Circular Rail’ went on for years. It was a useless debate’ since Calcutta needed both.
The Circular Rail has been operating only in a small part of the city. But what has been most wonderful is that it has suddenly opened the river Ganga to the view of the city itself. Nobody knew before August 16, 1984 that Calcutta still had a long strand from Baghbazar to Prinsep Ghat. The Circular Rail carries hundreds of commuters1 daily along the bank and offers to the passengers a grand riverine view’.
A portion of the Circular Rail runs from Dum-Dum to Baghbazar via Belgachia and Tab Park. This part remains disrupted midway because of some squatters. Another extension of the Circular Rail is likely to join Dum-Dum with Majherhat via Kankurgachi and Park Circus bypassing the Sealdah Station. Let us wait and see.
Calcutta needs the fullest extension of the Circular Rail, The projected circle should be completed and the whole city engirdled East to East via North, West and South.
The two most exciting things in Calcutta today arc the two new Rails—the Metro and the Circular. Both have started operating, but both are incomplete. Calcutta has several Circular Roads, such as the Upper and the Lower Circular Roads (now renamed as Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Road respectively), Ballygunge Circular Road and Tollygunge Circular Road. But the idea of encircling the entire city with a circular railway is a recent one, and it was partially translated into a reality only in 1984. The debate on ‘Metro Rail versus Circular Rail’ went on for years. It was a useless debate’ since Calcutta needed both.
The Circular Rail has been operating only in a small part of the city. But what has been most wonderful is that it has suddenly opened the river Ganga to the view of the city itself. Nobody knew before August 16, 1984 that Calcutta still had a long strand from Baghbazar to Prinsep Ghat. The Circular Rail carries hundreds of commuters1 daily along the bank and offers to the passengers a grand riverine view’.
A portion of the Circular Rail runs from Dum-Dum to Baghbazar via Belgachia and Tab Park. This part remains disrupted midway because of some squatters. Another extension of the Circular Rail is likely to join Dum-Dum with Majherhat via Kankurgachi and Park Circus bypassing the Sealdah Station. Let us wait and see.
Calcutta needs the fullest extension of the Circular Rail, The projected circle should be completed and the whole city engirdled East to East via North, West and South.
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