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CMRL to set up airport check-ins at its Central stn itself

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

Chennai metro rail seen by April 2014

The Chennai Metro Rail service may commence oper­ation 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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Metro and the city

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 tre­ated stan­da­lone and not as cogs in a mobi­lity wheel for a city. Cities are not able to integrate the transport ser­vices in the city because their is no single authority to manage all aspects of urban transport.

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