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The traffic volume on the trunk road fewer than 7,000 passenger car units a day in the late 1990s, which had increased to 12,000 passenger car units a day in 2010. A six-lane flyover is planned between Tallah Bridge and Dunlop to decongest the BT Road. [5] [6] Barrackpore Trunk Road at Dunlop More. Dunlop More is a T-shaped major intersection ...
Kolkata is home to the second largest road network in India, only after New Delhi.As of 2022, total road network in the city's metropolitan area is 4018 km [1] while the city proper has road network of 1850 km. [2] The following is a list of major roads, streets and avenues in the Kolkata ().
Kolkata was the first city in South Asia to have an underground railway system that started operating in 1984. Kolkata Metro is the only metro system in India owned by the Indian Railways. It is operated by 2 subsidiaries of Indian Railways, the Metro Railway, Kolkata and Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation.
A section of the Golden Quadrilateral highway from Chennai–Mumbai phase NH46: Bengaluru–Chennai section of India's 4-lane Golden Quadrilateral highway NH 16 another section of Golden Quadrilateral highway in Visakhapatnam on the Kolkata–Chennai section Kolkata–Durgapur section of India's GQ highway NH4: Chennai–Mumbai section of the GQ highway near Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu
Line 5 (Pink Line) is a planned rapid transit metro line of the Kolkata Metro in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The line will run from Baranagar to Barrackpore, with a length of 12.50 km (7.77 mi). It was sanctioned in 2009, at a cost of Rs.2070 crore, [3] to enable a quicker commuter service from the northern suburbs to Kolkata.
Those days Cuttack was the capital of Orissa and Bhubaneswar was a village, a tehsil under Puri district. Since it was a tehsil a station was built. Later when Bhubaneswar became state capital in 1970, the previously existing station was improved. In 2001 it was electrified and platform no. 3 & 4 were opened.
The name Barrackpore may have originated from the English word barracks, as it was the site of the first cantonment of the British East India Company. Alternatively, the Ain-i-Akbari suggests that the name comes from "Barbakpur". [6] Manasa Vijay, written by Bipradas Pipilai, refers to Talpukur (a place in Barrackpore) as "Charnak".
Bansberia is a city and a municipality of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.It is about 45 km (28 mi) away from Kolkata, at the western end of the Iswar Gupta Setu (Kalyani-Bansberia) Bridge.