Velachery residents want mini-buses to be operated on Station Service Road

The residents of eastbound Velachery person requested that mini-bus services beryllium operated connected the Station Service Road, being paved by the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC). The roadworthy belonging to the Southern Railway was handed implicit to GCC recently, and is being modernised astatine a outgo of ₹26 crore. 

The Station Service Road, moving parallel to the elevated railway tracks of the Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), connects the confederate limb of the Inner Ring Road hold adjacent the Velachery railway presumption and the Taramani Link Road astatine MGR Salai, which is linked to Rajiv Gandhi Salai. 

The MRTS attracts a ample fig of commuters moving successful the IT corridor, and they look difficulties successful accessing autobus facilities from the Thiruvanmiyur and Taramani railway stations. With respective IT companies functioning connected MGR Salai, the hundreds of commuters getting down astatine the Taramani railway presumption person to beryllium connected stock autorickshaws and backstage autos for reaching the IT corridor. 

Social activistic S. Kumararaja said Station Service Road was successful a mediocre condition, but has been fixed a caller makeover by the civic body. This could assistance commuters utilizing the MRTS work if the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) could run tiny autobus services from the Velachery autobus terminus to Sholinganallur via the Station Service Road and MGR Salai. Another autobus could beryllium operated from Velachery railway presumption to Thiruvanimyur autobus terminus via Station Service Road and LB Road. 

A elder authoritative of the MTC said that a fewer buses from the projected past mile connectivity project, nether which 300 mini-buses are planned to beryllium operated nether Gross Cost Contract (GCC), could beryllium operated connected the State Service Road successful the aboriginal to research gross viability. Already a mini-bus work has been planned for operating from Velachery autobus terminus to Sholinganallur via Kallukuttai lodging tenements and Perungudi, helium added.