Gurgaon: GMRL board will on Wednesday take a final decision on how to connect the city’s railway station with upcoming Millennium City Centre–Cyber City metro corridor.Three alternatives have been proposed for the 1.8km metro spur linking Sector 5 with the railway station as the authority weighs operational and funding issues tied to the main metro project.The proposal is under review amid World Bank scrutiny of funding for the main corridor. Earlier, World Bank had advised that the railway station spur be processed separately because it was not part of the original sanctioned plan. It also noted that including the spur in the current project could delay funding approval for Millennium City Centre–Cyber City corridor. Statutory requirements, including environmental and social studies, are still pending for the additional line.One option before the board is to integrate the spur with upcoming Millennium City Centre–Cyber City Metro Corridor, allowing the railway station to get metro access from the start of operations. While this would improve connectivity for rail passengers, officials said the corridor is designed to run trains at a high frequency of about every 2 minutes. They cautioned that adding a spur to such a busy line could create operational challenges and affect service efficiency once the metro becomes fully functional.A second option is to build the spur along with the main corridor but keep it operationally separate for now. Under this plan, the infrastructure would be constructed in the current phase to avoid future disruption, but train services on the spur would be integrated with Millennium City Centre–Cyber City corridor only when the proposed railway station–Bhondsi corridor is developed. This would support future expansion without disturbing main-line operations, though it would require investment in infrastructure that may remain unused for some time.The third option is to leave the spur out of Millennium City Centre–Cyber City corridor and develop the railway station connection later as part of the proposed railway station–Bhondsi metro line. This would simplify execution of the main corridor but delay direct metro access to the railway station until the future line is taken up.“The matter will be put up before the board to take the final decision,” an GMRL official said.The 28.5km metro corridor between Millennium City Centre and Cyber City, approved in June 2023, did not originally include a railway station link. Connectivity was instead planned through a skywalk.
