Chennai Metro Rail Limited
With the Centre’s requisite approval to the Phase-I extension of the Chennai Metro Rail expected in the near future, the land acquisition process for the Metro extension project will likely be commenced by the Chennai Metro Rail Limited in the coming months. The Phase-I extension of Chennai Metro Rail involves a 9-km stretch between Washermanpet [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has planned to create multi-level parking lots at a few stations. This came to the wake of the parking worries of the commuters. The good part of the multi-level parking lots is that they do not consume extra ground space and since the levels are stacked one above the other, [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- The Chennai metro rail project has completed its first tunnel (1.3 km) between two stations- Washermenpet and Mannadi. The tunneling work between this stretch was initiated on October 1, 2012 and got completed in five and a half months. As per the plan initiated by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC), the phase I of [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai – The underground tunnels of Chennai metro rail project will cross atleast 1,500 buildings in different locations covering a distance of 23 km. The tunnels would run beneath several commercial and residential areas on Washermanpet- Mannadi-High Court, May Day Park-Central, Shenoy Nagar-Pachaiyappa’s and Shenoy Nagar-Anna Nagar stretches. As per plan initiated by Delhi Metro [...] Continue Reading »
Pune metro rail project has finally got a budget of Rs 10 crore in the Union Budget which was announced recently. The long delayed project had proposals from Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corporations in association with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. Pune metro, for the first time has got listed in this year’s list of projects of the urban [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai – The construction of Chennai metro rail is slowly blocking the Ripon Buildings in the city. The metro authorities have not taken proper permission from government or Corporation Council in this regard. The Ripon Buildings is the seat of the Chennai corporation and is positioned near the Chennai central railway station. In 2010, State [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- The first set (four coaches) of the first metro train will be launched soon in 2013. According to the officials of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL), the work has started in October 2012. The manufacturing is carried out by a factory named Alstom Transport, a French company at Sri City near Tada in Andhra Pradesh. [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- The Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) will soon set up lifts and escalators in the completed metro stations in February 2013. Work has been completed at CMBT and Koyembedu metro stations. Johnson Lifts Pvt. Ltd and China-based SJEC Corporation will provide 125 lifts and 300 escalators respectively. The cost of installing lifts and escalators for 32 metro stations [...] Continue Reading »
