Metro Rail project is one of the many promises made to the new Andhra Pradesh during the state bifurcation. With Venkaiah Naidu at the helm of affairs in NDA government, things are moving at a faster pace. It is said that Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Guntur, Tenali are being considered for the metro rail project.Union Urban Development Ministry Secretary Sudhir Krishna and his team visited Vijayawada, Guntur and Tenali to study the feasibility of the project in those places.
Mobility in these areas are said to be more than 15000 per hour The idea of the project is to ensure mass transport system in the cities to ease the ever-growing traffic. The metro rail would stop at every 1-km. A corridor from Hanuman Junction to Kanchikacherla via Gannavaram, Vijayawada and Ibrahimpatnam could be developed.A corridor from Pamarru to Vijayawada covering a distance of 40 km, another corridor between Vijayawada and Edlapadu via Guntur covering a distance of 68 km and a 100-km circular corridor connecting Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali need to be developed.
