Chennai Metro Rail authorities are in the process of making the stretch between Tirumangalam and Nehru Park, Egmore, operational by October.
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Design consultant for Central Square soon
The Chennai Metro Rail will soon appoint a design consultant specially for developing the largest underground station in Chennai, the Central Square.
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Two Metro corridors to be ready only by 2017-end
Union Minister of State for Urban Development Babul Supriyo said 78 per cent of the work has been completed on the two corridors of the Chennai Metro Rail.
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Alstom to despatch train for metro rail by June 2013
Alstom said it would despatch the first train for the Chennai Metro Rail (CMRL), manufactured in Sao Paulo, Brazil by June 2013. A team from the Chennai Metro Rail led by L Narsim Prasad, Director (RS, S&T and Electrical) and Umesh Rai inspected the
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CMRL to set up airport check-ins at its Central stn itself
The Chennai Metro Rail (CMRL) proposes to introduce airport check-in facility at its Chennai Central station. An official with CMRL said that flyers who wish to take the Metro to reach the airport can opt to complete check-in procedures and collect the boarding pass at Chennai Central metro station itself.
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Chennai metro rail seen by April 2014
The Chennai Metro Rail service may commence operÂation between the Koyambedu-St Thomas Mount stretch by March-end or early April 2014. By the end of November 2013, Chennai Metro Rail (CMRL) plans to test run a full-length four-car metro train with a functional signal system. By late August or early September, CMRL plans to put on trial the front car comprising the engine on the elevated corridor.
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Chennai Metro project
Tunnelling work on the Chennai Metro Rail project began using two tunnel boring machines, according to an official press release.
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Metro and the city
How will upcoming metro rail systems respond to how an integrated system to ensure the city’s traffic and architecture is preserved or enhanced?Metro systems at present are being treÂated stanÂdaÂlone and not as cogs in a mobiÂlity wheel for a city. Cities are not able to integrate the transport serÂvices in the city because their is no single authority to manage all aspects of urban transport.
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Siemens bags Metro contract
Chennai Metro Rail (CMRL) has awarded a Rs 305 crore contract for power supply and overhead equipment (OHE) to Siemens AG, Germany, and its Indian arm Seimens India Consortium.
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TN evokes special powers to acquire land for metro
The Tamil Nadu government has evoked special powers conferred by the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, to deny affected property owners the opportunity to raise objections towards land acquisition for Chennai Metro Rail (CMRL).
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