Ahmedabad

City’s Jalaram Mandir Railway Crossing connecting Paldi and Law garden will be closed for traffic soon to make a way for construction of under bridge. Once the under bridge is built, the railway crossing will be permanently closed.

Construction of this under bridge will take place as part of the Metro rail project by MEGA company. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation(AMC) will coordinate with MEGA in this regard.

Jalaram Crossing will have one of the Metro stations on Jivraj flyover to Akhbarnagar stretch of Metro rail.

MEGA had proposed AMC to permit the construction of under bridge which has been granted in today’s standing committee meeting.

Presented in the photographs above is proposed ‘Paldi’ metro rail station in Ahmedabad. Though the name is ‘Paldi’, the station will not be exactly on Paldi cross roads, but in Paldi area, at railway crossing next to Jalaram Mandir/Jay Siyaram Pendawala/Old Shardamandir school. It will be an elevated station. It will come up in railway’s land. Existing railway line connecting Botad and Gandhidham railway station will continue to host common trains, while proposed elevated corridor will carry metro trains. There are some over bridges on this route(Shreyas crossing, Jivraj crossing), but the elevated route for Metro will be even above them.

– DeshGujarat