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The Delhi Aerocity metro presumption connected the Airport Express Line is acceptable to look arsenic a large interchange hub of the city’s metro web pursuing its planned integration with the Tughlakabad-Aerocity Golden Line corridor nether Phase 4, the DMRC said connected Saturday (January 31, 2026).
An support has precocious been granted for extending the Golden Line corridor from Aerocity to the Terminal 1 of Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport station, covering a agelong of astir 2.26 km, said a elder DMRC official. The determination aims to amended airdrome connectivity for commuters from southbound Delhi, according to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
The authoritative added that the Aerocity presumption has besides been planned arsenic a aboriginal triple interchange, arsenic the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) is proposing interchange facilities determination for its upcoming corridor to Alwar.
“The caller Aerocity interchange volition diagnostic platform-to-platform connectivity connected 1 broadside and concourse-to-concourse paid country connectivity betwixt the Airport Express Line and the Golden Line, with the platforms expected to beryllium located astatine a extent of astir 22 metres,” said the official.
The Golden Line presumption astatine Aerocity volition beryllium importantly longer — astir 290 metres — to accommodate interchange requirements, compared to the accustomed interchange presumption magnitude of astir 260 metres.
The authoritative added that arsenic per the planned alignment, the Golden Line and the projected NCRTC corridor volition transverse each different diagonally, and indispensable structural provisions volition beryllium incorporated successful the presumption plan to let aboriginal integration of the NCRTC platform.
Highlighting the interaction connected commuters, the DMRC authoritative said the caller interchange installation volition supply a large connectivity boost to respective areas successful southbound Delhi, including Tughlakabad, Ambedkar Nagar and Khanpur, offering quicker entree to each terminals of the IGI Airport.
With the support of the Golden Line hold connected the Magenta Line, it said passengers from galore parts of southbound Delhi volition get nonstop entree to Terminal 1 of IGI Airport, portion travellers from Terminal 1D volition besides beryllium capable to scope the Airport Express Line astatine Aerocity utilizing the Golden Line.
