Commonwealth Games venues, a metro ride away!

When the Commonwealth Games 2010 kick off in the Indian capital sportspersons as well as spectators will find the going easy with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation DMRC which is racing ahead with its new lines said Sunday that 10 of the 11 Games venues will have easy metro connectivityPhase II of Delhi Metro will provide easy access to most of the sports venues the Commonwealth Games Village Indira Gandhi Sports Complex and Yamuna Sports Complex all in east Delhi Delhi University Ground north Delhi Talkotora Indoor Stadium west Delhi Thyagaraj Complex RK Tennis Complex and Siri Fort Sports Complex all in south Delhi and the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and National Stadium central DelhiThe PhaseII construction of the Delhi Metro which is progressing at a fast pace will provide easy metro connectivity to 10 out of 11 venues of the Commonwealth Games 2010 DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal said in a statement SundayDMRC has completed 25 percent to 57 percent work on all the metro lines passing near the Games venues and they will be opened by September 2010 a month before the Commonwealth Games are scheduled Dayal addedFive lines on the stretch are scheduled to open in 2009 including the VishwavidyalayaJahangirpuri 636 km line in the north by January endThe other corridors due to be completed this year are IndraprasthaNew Ashok Nagar 807 km New Ashok NagarNoida 7 km and Yamuna BankAnand Vihar ISBT 617 km all in east Delhi and the InderlokMundka 1846 km stretch in west DelhiThe Games Village where most athletes will reside is adjacent to the Akshardham Metro station on the IndraprasthaNew Ashok Nagar line that is already 57 percent complete and scheduled to be opened by June 2009 Dayal saidThe Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium where the opening and closing ceremonies are to be held can be accessed directly from the JLN Stadium Metro station or from the Jangpura station in southcentral Delhi located half a kilometre away Both these stations are part of the Central SecretariatBadarpur corridor on which 25 percent of the work has already been completed This stretch is scheduled to open in September 2010 The Delhi University Ground which will host rugby events has its own metro station Vishwavidyalaya Another venue the Thyagaraj complex will be one km from the underground INA Metro station The station is part of the Central SecretariatQutub Minar stretch that is 30 percent complete and will be opened June 2010 The tennis venue RK Tennis Complex is 2 km away from the AIIMS Metro station which is also on the Central SecretariatQutub Minar lineThe Hauz Khas metro station is a kilometre away from the Siri Fort Sports Complex also on the same lineThe Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium the hockey venue and the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex that will host cycling archery wrestling and gymnastics events will be 15 km from the operational Pragati Maidan Metro station and Indraprastha Metro station respectively The National Stadium can also be accessed from the already functioning Central Secretariat Metro stationThe aquatics venue Talkotora Indoor Stadium can be accessed from the operational Jhandewalan metro station situated about 4 km west of Connaught Place The Yamuna Sports Complex a multigames venue will be 2 km from the Anand Vihar metro station of the Yamuna BankAnand Vihar ISBT line that is already 53 percent complete and set to be opened by December 2009 The Doctor Karni Singh Shooting stadium is the only venue outside the 2 km periphery of any metro station Situated near the DelhiHaryana border in the southwest this venue will be 7 km from the Tughlaqabad metro station on the underconstruction Central SecretariatBadarpur line DMRC has proposed feeder bus services to bridge the relatively longer distances between stations and venuesDMRC is planning to start feeder bus services to all Games venues that are not adjacent to Metro stations Dayal saidu00a0