Close on the heels of Calcutta and New Delhi, Chennai will also have its own Metro Rail. The project costing a mammoth Rs 9757 Crores was announced by the Central Government as a Diwali Gift for
Chennai. The Tamil Nadu and the Central Governement will chip in with the money.Money will also be borrowed from a Japanese Bank. The project will commence in the latter half of 2008 and finish in about four to five years. The Metro will be partly underground and be about 40 kilometers in length. it will run in two corridors. One corridor will connect Washermanpet to the Airport touching Egmore, Anna Salai, Teynampet, Saidapet and Guindy. The underground portion will be between Anna Salai and Saidapet.
The second corridor will run between Fort Station,and St Thomas Mount via Poonamallee High Road, Aminjakarai, Anna Nagar, Thirumanagalam, Koyambedu, Ashok Nagar and Alandur.The underground section will be between Poonamallee High Road and Thirumangalam.
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While we still can't find our major road edges in the great old city and the final profile of the upcomming elevated road (bridges), and still some projects even pile works are not completed (Koyambedu Junction) do we really need of another leap step to have rail over road? I could not understand for what they kicked off this activities, if the same continues, next twenty years Chennai will not be place to live in. Think and act Chennai!
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