lucknow frequent travellers between lucknow and kanpur can look forward to a highspeed train in the near future the state government is mulling a dedicated corridor of highspeed train called rapid rail transit system rrts which will reduce travel time between the two cities lucknow metro rail corporation is already at an advanced stage of kanpur metros dpr finalisation the government has directed it to do a technofeasibility study of the rrts between lucknow and kanpur a metro trains scheduled speed is roughly 3235 km hour whereas the rapid rail transit system runs at a speed of 7580 km hr kanpur development authority the nodal agency for executing kanpur metro project has suggested to lmrc to make a build a separate corridor for passengers the move will benefit hundreds of passengers who travel daily between the two cities an official said the best thing about the rrts is that they also stop at major stations in between unlike metro which stops roughly after every 1 km distance an rrts stops after every 10 km distance rrts was first proposed by the national capital region planning board ncrpb for the ncr region around delhi to improve connectivity between the urban commercial and industrial centres the objective was to reduce dependence on road transport infrastructure the board had then suggested eight rrts corridors within ncr to improve the connectivity