{"id":451435,"date":"2021-11-23T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=451435"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:29:01","slug":"by-2029-30-there-could-be-a-bullet-train-connecting-delhi-to-agra-every-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/by-2029-30-there-could-be-a-bullet-train-connecting-delhi-to-agra-every-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"By 2029-30, there could be a bullet train connecting Delhi to Agra every hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If all goes according to plan, there could be a Bullet Train between Delhi and Agra running at top speed of 300 km\/hour every hour by 2029-30.<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi-Varanasi high speed rail project will be 958 km long having a 123 km long spur connecting Lucknow and Ayodhya, according to a Times of India report.<\/p>\n<p>The route will comprise a mix of elevated stretches and tunnels considering the security requirements of the route. An underground station will also come up at the upcoming Jewar airport in Noida.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a total of 12 stations covering major pilgrimages in UP. The total project cost is estimated to be around Rs 2.3 lakh crore.<\/p>\n<p>The travel time between Delhi and Varanasi, currently at 11-12 hours, will be reduced to just three hours, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The move will give a boost to tourism to Eastern Uttar Pradesh. There will be 63 trips between Delhi and Agra in a day, 43 trips between Delhi and Lucknow, 18 trips between Delhi and Varanasi and 11 trips between Delhi and Ayodhya on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If all goes according to plan, there could be a Bullet Train between Delhi and Agra running at top speed of 300 km\/hour every hour by 2029-30. The Delhi-Varanasi high speed rail project will be 958 km long having a 123 km long spur connecting Lucknow and Ayodhya, according to a Times of India report. The route will comprise a mix of elevated stretches and tunnels considering the security requirements of the route. An underground station will also come up at the upcoming Jewar airport in Noida. There will be a total of 12 stations covering major pilgrimages in UP. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-railways"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}