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Following the occurrence of the electrical autobus cognition successful the city, the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) is readying to instrumentality archetypal and past mile connectivity to the Metrorail stations.
MTC has called for a pre-tender gathering with the archetypal instrumentality manufacturers (OEMs) of electrical buses. The gathering is to be held connected November 3.
A elder authoritative of the MTC said the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) had been seeking to run tiny buses for archetypal and past mile connectivity successful respective localities successful the city. The MTC, based connected the petition from CMRL, has been operating tiny buses connected much than 25 routes to cater to the needs of the commuters.
However, the cognition of tiny buses has not been economically viable, officials said.
To fulfill the needs of the commuters successful the metropolis and pursuing the palmy implementation of electrical buses nether the gross outgo contract model, it has been projected to research the viability of operating aerial conditioned e-buses successful much than 200 routes, an MTC authoritative said.
The pre-consultation gathering to beryllium held with OEMs of e-buses is to measure the feasibility of operating 220 (five- and six-metre) AC e-buses for past mile connectivity to Metro stations.
The MTC authoritative said the CMRL has already identified 4 places for creating the electrical autobus infrastructure installation successful the city.
Soon tenders would beryllium floated for the mini e-buses, the MTC authoritative noted.
