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Villivakkam is yet acceptable to witnesser tunnelling operations for Chennai Metro Rail’s signifier II task adjacent week.
It volition get 3 stations — Villivakkam Metro, Bus Terminus Metro, and MTH Road Metro — nether the 118.9-km signifier II project, and signifier a portion of Corridor 5, which runs from Madhavaram to Sholinganallur.
This 47-km agelong is the longest corridor successful the signifier II project, with stations astatine galore locations, including Retteri, Kolathur, Villivakkam, Anna Nagar West, Thirumangalam, Koyambedu, Virugambakkam, Mugalivakkam, Ramapuram, Adambakkam, Madipakkam, Kovilambakkam, Medavakkam and Shollinganallur.
At present, travelling from Medavakkam oregon Madipakkam to Villivakkam volition instrumentality astatine slightest an hr by road. The question clip volition alteration importantly erstwhile the full corridor is completed.
Corridor 5 has lone a miniscule magnitude of underground web (5.8 km) compared to the different 2 corridors — Madhavaram to SIPCOT and Poonamallee to Light House.
According to officials of the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL), they program to motorboat the passageway boring instrumentality (TBM) ‘Marutham’ astatine Villivakkam Metro, from wherever it volition bore towards Villivakkam Bus Terminus adjacent week.
“The TBM ‘Marutham’ was lowered immoderate clip ago. It has mined the diaphragm wall, oregon the presumption box, for 100 mm and is acceptable for the launch. The 2nd TBM ‘Neithal’ volition statesman its thrust by the extremity of November,” an authoritative said.
These machines indispensable drill into the world for a region of 603 m to make duplicate tunnels linking the 2 locations. Officials said they estimation that some machines volition implicit their journeys by March and April adjacent year.
“Between Villivakkam Metro and Villivakkam Bus Terminus, the machines indispensable bore done hard clay and shale — a fine-grained sedimentary stone made of clay and silt — but we don’t expect overmuch of a problem,” helium added.
In future, residents volition find it convenient to power betwixt the autobus terminus, the suburban railway presumption and these 2 Metro stations. While Villivakkam Metro is located astatine a region of 60 m from the Villivakkam Railway Suburban Station — which volition aboriginal beryllium connected by a covered dedicated pathway — Villivakkam Bus Terminus Metro is situated wrong walking region from the autobus station.
