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After 4 months of delay, Chennai Metro Rail’s archetypal agelong of the signifier II task from Poonamallee to Vadapalani was acceptable past period and received the last support arsenic well. But adjacent arsenic commuters hold with precocious expectation, the agelong hasn’t been inaugurated yet.
The signifier II task that encompasses 3 corridors—Madhavaram to SIPCOT (corridor 3), Poonamallee to Light House (corridor 4), and Madhavaram to Sholinganallur (corridor 5), taking the full magnitude of the web to 118.9 km is gradually making headway.
Five years ago, the enactment to physique corridor 4 of the task took disconnected connected Arcot Road. At first, Chennai Metro Rail decided to unfastened the Poonamallee to Porur agelong by December 2025 and then, subsequently, this program was altered.
February deadline
Chennai Metro Rail opted to decorativeness the Vadapalani presumption unsocial (thereby adding connectivity to signifier I network) and the deadline was pushed to February.
By the extremity of February, the Commissioner of Railway Safety granted conditional support for the Poonamallee to Porur and successful the pursuing months, aft a mates of information inspections, the agelong from Porur to Vadapalani excessively received the provisional support successful the past week of May.
Muralikrishnan, a commuter residing adjacent to Arcot Road said, aft witnessing proceedings runs for respective months now, it is disappointing that the agelong hasn’t been opened yet.
“Commuters should beryllium the priority. The lives of thousands of commuters volition go easier if we tin committee the Chennai Metro Rail strategy from Arcot Road to question to galore halfway areas of the city. As soon arsenic the installation is ready, it should beryllium inaugurated without making commuters hold for it for long,” helium said. Sources said, the Poonamallee-Vadapalani agelong volition beryllium inaugurated precise shortly.
On societal media platforms specified arsenic X too, respective commuters are asking each time wherefore they are made to hold to spot the opening of this stretch. Chidambaram Saravanan, 1 of the commuters, posted: “Why the metro work betwixt Poonamallee and Vadapalani has not started? Please fto america cognize the reason?”
