MTC to operate special buses from Egmore station during redevelopment work

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MTC plans to run  further  buses successful  effect   to rider  demand. (File photo)

MTC plans to run further buses successful effect to rider demand. (File photo) | Photo Credit: Akhila Easwaran

The Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) would beryllium operating further buses connecting Chengalpattu and Tambaram owed to the redevelopment enactment successful Egmore railway station. The Southern Railway volition beryllium reducing the fig of suburban bid services connected the Beach-Tambaram conception for a play of 45 days starting from February 20, successful bid to facilitate civilian enactment successful the station. 

According to a property release, the MTC would run 44 buses, including 16 buses from the impermanent autobus basal astatine Royapuram, to Guduvanchery via Tambaram and Kilambakkam (route no. R18), and 28 buses from Royapuram to Kilambakkam (route 18A) from February 20 to April 5. 

Also, 15 peculiar buses from Pallavaram to Chengalpattu via Tambaram would beryllium operated. 

The MTC plans to run further buses successful effect to rider demand, for which officers volition beryllium deputed astatine large autobus stations.

Published - February 19, 2026 12:13 americium IST

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