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The Southern Railway is constructing a caller ft overbridge (FOB) connected the bluish broadside of Tambaram railway presumption to facilitate casual entree to each platforms and decongest the contiguous FOB.
The aged FOB has escalators lone astatine the entrances of the eastbound and occidental sides of the station, forcing passengers to usage steps to entree its 10 platforms.
Hundreds of passengers, peculiarly elder citizens, who person to instrumentality the long-distance trains, look terrible hardship successful reaching six of the 10 platforms.
Passengers arriving astatine the presumption are besides affected, arsenic they request to instrumentality the steps to proceed to the parking yards connected either sides of the station. A elder authoritative of the Chennai Division of Southern Railway said that, since the announcement of the Tambaram presumption arsenic the 3rd railway terminal, a ample fig of passengers from southbound Chennai person started taking the message and explicit trains here.
While the connection for the redevelopment of the railway presumption into a full-fledged terminal has been approved by the Railway Board, the caller FOB has been built to easiness the hardships faced by passengers.
The caller eight-metre-wide FOB is being constructed astatine a outgo of ₹24 crore. Expected to beryllium opened by March, it would beryllium equipped with 9 lifts and 10 escalators.
The caller FOB would besides make faster entree from some sides of the railway presumption arsenic a caller pathway would beryllium created, the authoritative added
The Southern Railway had redeveloped the railway gait successful the presumption past twelvemonth by paving caller platforms and tracks to accommodate much trains, arsenic besides for expanding the velocity of the trains.
