Amritsar BRTS

Amritsar Bus Rapid Transit

Overview
Locale	Amritsar
Transit type	Bus rapid transit
Number of lines	7
Number of stations	62
Chief executive	Public Works Department, Amritsar
Headquarters	Amritsar, Punjab, India
Operation
Began operation	Mid 2016[1][2]
Operator(s)	Punjab Bus Metro Society
Number of vehicles	93[3][4]
Technical
System length	31 km (19 mi)
Top speed	21 km/h (13 mph)

Amritsar Bus Rapid Transit System (Amritsar BRTS) is the bus rapid transit (BRT) system under construction in Amritsar, Punjab, India.^[5] BRTS had to start operation in December 2015.^[6] The project was commenced on 19 September 2013.^[7] Amritsar BRTS is based on Ahmedabad BRTS model.^[8] The BRTS will operate with 93 Air-conditioned buses.^[3] This project would allow easy travel to different places in city like the Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh, Guru Nanak Dev University and Khalsa College.^[9][10] Amritsar BRTS is constructed on the lines of Metrobus (Istanbul).^[11] Volvo Buses showed its interest in BRTS project at the holy city of Amritsar.^[12]

Key features

Some of the key features of Amritsar BRTS are:^[13]

• Automatic Doors of waiting rooms for passengers safety.
• Overheard bridges for pedestrians
• Two different lanes for movement of buses in both directions.
• Intersections will act as boarding place for the buses.
• Complete Air conditioned buses and stations.

Corridors

There will be 7 Corridors for Amritsar BRTS.^[14]

• Sham Singh Attari Wala gate and Bhandari Bridge^[15] to India Gate
• Bhandari Bridge to Daburji^[16]
• Daburji Byepass to Verka
• Verka to Celebration Mall^[17]
• Celebration Mall to Sant Singh Sukha Singh Chowk
• 4S Chowk to Kitchlu Chowk
• Kitchlu Chowk to Old Sadar Police Station

Construction

Varaha Infra Ltd a company based in Jodhpur (Rajasthan) is executing this project. Construction work started on 26 February 2015. As of September 2016 , 90% of work has been completed.^[18]

References

1. "The contractor has been asked to complete the work by mid 2016.".
2. "The work on the BRTS project was going on at full swing and the contractor had been asked to complete the work by mid 2016.".
3. "Holy city of Amritsar to get BRTS, cabinet clears proposal". Punjab News Express. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
4. "78 air-conditioned buses would be operational in Amritsar and would cover 31 km route.".
5. "As chaos rules the roads in the city due to the ongoing construction work of the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), Amritsar".
6. "Amritsar BRTS to get operational by December".
7. "The decision to introduce BRTS was taken by Punjab government at a meeting on September 19, 2013.".
8. "Amritsar to copy Ahmedabad BRTS model".
9. "Construction works lead to chaos on railway station-GNDU stretch".
10. "http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/BRTS-in-Amritsar-to-be-operational-by-Nov/articleshow/46523745.cms". External link in |title= (help)
11. "the project, mooted on the lines of BRTS in Istanbul, Turkey".
12. TNN (8 August 2015). "Volvo keen on BRTS". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
13. "Amritsar BRTS project starts moving".
14. "The officials of project accompanying him informed that out of 7 corridors 5 would be completed till March".
15. "An elevated road leads to the shrine now, the congested Bhandari Bridge".
16. "Commuters feel unbearable heat as BRTS enters Bhandari Bridge".
17. "Apart from running on the elevated road, the buses will also have a 3-km additional elevated passage from local Celebration mall to Verka Chowk.".
18. Service, Tribune News (29 December 2015). "State govt departments unlikely to complete BRTS by March 31 deadline". http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/cities/amritsar/state-govt-departments-unlikely-to-complete-brts-by-march-31-deadline/174327.html. Retrieved 30 December 2015. External link in |website= (help)

External links

• Bus Rapid Transit System For Amritsar