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| Metro rail project on fast track |
| File photo of the Delhi metro rail, on which the Chennai project is likely to be modelled.
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| INDIA
, 3-February-2007
3:35:51 AM |
| The proposed metro railway project for the city is on the fast track with the State Government moving the Centre for clearances. Project consultant Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is expected to submit a draft report by the month-end.
Work on the partly elevated and partly underground metro railway line along Anna Salai and Poonamallee High Road is expected to cost Rs. 7,129 crore as per a brief project profile submitted by DMRC in December 2006. Based on the report, the State Government has started working on getting clearances from the Planning Commission, the Cabinet and various departments.
The metro rail will decongest the crowded road corridors in the inner city and offer a more environment-friendly mass transportation alternative for the burgeoning metropolis. Government sources say the first railway corridor from Toll Gate to Kamaraj Airport will cover 27.3 km. There will be 22 stations. The second corridor from Fort Station to Guindy will consist of 18 stations along the 21.8 km stretch.
Once the Government finalises the DPR, work is expected to start from January 2008 and get over within five-and-a-half years.
The elevated track will be mostly along Anna Salai, which is wide enough to have a railway line along the median. In places such as Broadway, where there is not enough road width, it will be an underground line.
According to the DPR, corridor one will start from Toll Gate on Tiruvotriyur High road. It will go past the railway cross near Washermanpet station as an underground line. It will cover Broadway and High Court, go past the MUC Grounds and the Central Station (opposite the Moore Market Complex). The underground track will cross Poonamallee High Road and the Cooum to enter Anna Salai near Tarapore Towers. The track will be elevated from the point it enters Anna Salai till where it terminates at a station before the airport building.
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