67% of work completed on CMRL’s phase II stretch from Koyambedu to Chennai Trade Centre

Nearly 67 % of the enactment has been completed successful Chennai Metro Rail’s signifier II agelong betwixt Koyambedu and Chennai Trade Centre, which is scheduled for opening successful June this year.

When bid services statesman successful this stretch, Metro Rail connectivity volition grow further, arsenic a 2nd transit constituent betwixt signifier I and signifier II networks volition beryllium disposable astatine Koyambedu.

In the 118.9-km signifier II project, 3 corridors are shaping signifier — Madhavaram to SIPCOT (corridor 3), Poonamallee to Light House (corridor 4), and Madhavaram to Sholinganallur (corridor 5). Initially, a section of corridor 4 from Poonamallee to Vadapalani volition unfastened wrong 2 weeks, providing the archetypal constituent of interchange betwixt signifier I and signifier II networks astatine Vadapalani.

This volition beryllium followed by a conception of corridor 5 from Koyambedu to Chennai Trade Centre. Along with this stretch, stations successful corridor 4 betwixt Alapakkam and Saligramam (a portion of Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch) volition beryllium opened successful June arsenic their operation volition beryllium completed lone aft 4 months.

According to officials of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL), the viaduct enactment betwixt Koyambedu and Chennai Trade Centre volition beryllium completed earlier the extremity of March.

“We started the way enactment simultaneously successful locations wherever the viaduct was finished. So far, retired of 12 km of way to beryllium laid betwixt Koyambedu and Chennai Trade Centre, we person completed astir 2 km, successful locations including Mugalivakkam, Ramapuram, Chennai Trade Centre, and parts of the double-decker corridor,” an authoritative said.

Double-decker corridor

The double-decker corridor betwixt Alapakkam and Alwarthirunagar, erstwhile afloat acceptable successful 4 months, volition let commuters to interchange trains astatine 4 stations — Alapakkam, Karambakkam, Valasaravakkam, and Alwarthirunagar — betwixt corridor 4 and corridor 5.

A fewer months ago, CMRL officials said they wanted to supply connectivity a small beyond Chennai Trade Centre till Alandur successful June this year.

This volition connection 1 much bid interchange constituent betwixt the signifier I and signifier II networks astatine Alandur.

But determination is simply a large hitch successful establishing this connectivity, sources said.

“Beyond Chennai Trade Centre, 2 stations — Butt Road and Alandur — person to beryllium built. While operation of the Alandur presumption is nether way, determination are a batch of challenges successful completing the Butt Road presumption earlier the June deadline. All these months, we couldn’t get postulation support successful a full-fledged mode to transportation retired operation on Paul Wells Road. As a result, adjacent heap enactment hasn’t begun astatine a fewer points successful Paul Wells Road. It volition beryllium precise hard to decorativeness the viaduct and the presumption astatine Paul Wells Road,” a root said.

CMRL officials said specified problems are getting resolved present and they volition expedite the work.