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Chennai Metro Rail services connected the Green Line betwixt Chennai Central and the Airport via Koyambedu were affected connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) greeting owed to a method glitch. As a result, thousands of commuters were forced to instrumentality an interchange bid astatine Alandur station, causing delays and inconvenience.
A elder authoritative of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) said that definite awesome issues on the Green Line resulted successful services being stopped temporarily. They were halted during the greeting highest hours astatine 9.30 a.m., and the contented was expected to beryllium resolved by noon arsenic attraction unit were engaged successful rectifying it, the authoritative added.
The CMRL authoritative said that announcements were being made to passengers travelling to the Airport connected the Green Line (via Anna Nagar and Koyambedu) to interchange astatine Alandur Metro presumption and proceed their travel connected the Blue Line to the Airport.
While inter-corridor services connected the Green Line bound for the Airport person been stopped, services from Chennai Central to St. Thomas Mount and Blue Line services from Wimco Nagar to the Airport are operating usually arsenic per the weekday schedule, CMRL said successful a station connected X.
T. Sundaresan, a Metro Rail commuter from Thirumangalam, said the stoppage of services towards the Airport resulted successful a dense unreserved connected the Blue Line corridor astatine the interchange section, with respective commuters remaining confused astir the disruption.
