Laldighi in Kolkata to lose its trams and make way for East-West Metro

Sight of trams in Dalhousie Square or Lsldighi, the business district of Kolkata, would soon be a thing of the past because the work on East-West Metro's Mahakaran station in Dalhousie is expected to start in March. As a result, the Calcutta Tramways Company will stop allowing trams to make a switch-over at Laldighi to head for south or north Calcutta. This decision has been taken at a meeting held between officials of the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation, CTC, the transport department and officers of Calcutta police.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 5 December 2015.
At present there are 25 existing tram routes and, out of these, at least 15, including Rajabazar-Dalhouise-Esplanade-Rajabazar, and Kidderpore-Dalhousie-Galiff Street, use the Laldighi loop.

A number of tram routes would be affected and the RITES representatives, present at the meeting, were asked to work out an alternative route near Lalbazar police headquarters. That way, the tram routes in the area and College Street can be left operational. A suggestion is to design a route such that trams running along Rabindra Sarani and taking a right turn towards Dalhousie can turn left towards Bowbazar and remain operational.
KMRC would take possession of the block of land opposite currency building and north of the Writers' Buildings in March 2016 and, the existing tram tracks would be removed by then.
It would take around three years to build the Mahakaran station.

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