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Chennai is acceptable to get 2 caller routes of high-speed obstruction successful the future.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, successful the Union fund 2026, presented connected Sunday, announced 7 caller high-speed obstruction (HSR) corridors, including 2 corridors from Chennai. The 7 HSR corridors are: Mumbai to Pune, Pune to Hyderabad, Chennai to Bengaluru, Chennai to Hyderabad, Hyderabad to Bengaluru, Delhi to Varanasi, and Varanasi to Siliguri. The task would beryllium executed by National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL).
In the aftermath of the state acceptable to witnesser the cognition of slug trains from Mumbai to Ahmedabad successful a fewer years, the operation of the 2 HSR corridors from the metropolis to Bengaluru and Hyderabad would beryllium a large boost to the thousands of passengers.
A elder authoritative of the Southern Railway said the routes to Bengaluru and Hyderabad are successful precocious request arsenic galore message and explicit trains are operated from Chennai, including the double-decker train. More than 25 message and explicit trains are operated from and via Chennai to Bengaluru, the railway authoritative pointed out.
Last year, the Union Railway Minister had announced that a elaborate task study for the HSR corridor from Chennai to Hyderabad, with a halt astatine Tirupati was being prepared.
A elder railway authoritative said that trains successful the caller high-speed obstruction corridor would beryllium operated astatine a minimum velocity of much than 230 kilometres per hour, portion the slug trains would beryllium operated astatine a velocity of 370 kmph. For the HSR corridor, caller tracks to planetary standards, akin to those of slug trains, would beryllium constructed. The HSR corridors would beryllium operated betwixt cities wherever astir passengers undertake aerial travel. At present, the Chennai-Bengaluru question clip successful trains, including the Vande Bharat, is astir six hours and much than 12 hours to Hyderabad. However, the question clip to Hyderabad would beryllium little than 3 hours successful the HSR corridor.
However, residents successful the metropolis are disappointed, and said that an HSR to Coimbatore would person paved the mode for creating a concern and tourism corridor. Coimbatore has galore dense industries and besides remains the gateway for tourists visiting Ooty.
Transport activistic Dayanand Krishnan said it was precise disappointing to enactment that the High-Speed Rail (HSR) web planned for Tamil Nadu benefits lone Chennai city, which lies astatine the bluish portion of the State. “To genuinely payment a highly urbanised State similar Tamil Nadu, with a colonisation of astir 8 crore, the HSR alignment should screen large cities specified arsenic Coimbatore successful occidental Tamil Nadu and Madurai successful confederate Tamil Nadu, connecting them to the capital, Chennai. Extending the projected HSR connectivity further to Bengaluru and Hyderabad would beryllium a immense invited and a important vantage for the radical of Tamil Nadu,” he said.
