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The Railway Board has yet issued the in-principle support to Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) for the signalling strategy to run the Poonamallee-Porur agelong of the Phase II project.
According to CMRL officials, they expect a velocity certificate to beryllium issued by the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) and the Railway Board, Ministry of Railways, successful a fewer days. An extended inspection was carried retired by the RDSO successful August, and CMRL has been waiting for immoderate of the important approvals, including for the signalling strategy and velocity certificate.
Since it was taking time, CMRL had escalated the contented with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the Project Monitoring Group of the Union authorities successful November. In the archetypal week of December, the Tamil Nadu authorities wrote to the Centre seeking its involution successful this respect to expedite the approval.
In a related development, CMRL is apt to supply connectivity from Poonamallee to Vadapalani connected the Phase II web by the extremity of February. After starting bid operations connected the agelong betwixt Poonamallee and Porur (a portion of corridor 4 successful the 118.9-km Phase II network) successful January, establishing connectivity till Vadapalani astatine the earliest is important arsenic this is 1 of the locations wherever the Phase I and Phase II web meet, the officials said.
As each the stations betwixt Porur to Vadapalani whitethorn not beryllium acceptable by February, the thought is to expedite the enactment archetypal astatine the Phase II Vadapalani presumption and run trains till this location, skipping those being built successful between.
“From Poonamallee to Porur, the trains volition halt astatine each the stations. By February-end, we privation to springiness commuters immoderate signifier of connectivity till Vadapalani, truthful that they tin power betwixt the Phase I and Phase II networks. Hence, trains volition question past Porur each the mode to Vadapalani, but they won’t marque stops astatine the stations betwixt Porur and Vadapalani,” an authoritative said.
CMRL has been readying to commence bid services connected the agelong (in the corridor 4 of the signifier II network) from Porur to Power House successful Kodambakkam by June. “The stations betwixt Porur to Kodambakkam are apt to beryllium acceptable by June, and we volition beryllium acceptable to statesman operations connected this agelong then,” helium added.
Skywalk being built
CMRL has begun gathering a 130-metre skywalk to nexus the upcoming Phase II Vadapalani Metro Station with the Phase I station.
“We program to implicit this span earlier the extremity of January. So, erstwhile the 2nd agelong is opened, commuters tin rapidly locomotion from the ticketing level of 1 presumption to the other,” different authoritative said.
