Chennai Metro Rail Work already started....

Elections over, Chennai Metro Rail Limted (CMRL) is all set to go ahead with the construction of the mass rapid transit system in the city.
The Hyderabad-based Soma Enterprises has already started preliminary works to build elevated viaducts from Koyaembedu to Ashok Nagar. Chennai Metro Rail will soon float more tenders to identify companies to construct the rest of the elevated portions including the stretch from Ashok Nagar to St Thomas Mount which comes under Corridor II between Chennai Central and St Thomas Mount.
The corridor starts from Chennai Central and passes through EVR Periyar Salai, Vepery, Kilpauk Medical College, Aminjikarai, Shenoy Nagar, Anna Nagar East, Anna Nagar Tirumangalam, Koyambedu, CMBT, Inner Ring Road, Vadapalani, Ashok Nagar, SIDCO and Alandur and ends at St Thomas Mount.
“Initial discussions are on to float the tenders. We need to float two or three tenders because a single tender will not be enough to handle the works,” an official said. Soma Enterprises has started works on the Koyambedu-Vadapalani-Ashok Nagar stretch, where the rail will run along the median of 100 feet road. The Rs 199.2 crore work was awarded to the company in February. “Soil tests have already started,” the official said.
CMRL wants to complete the tender process for elevated portions of corridor II so that companies who win the bids will be able to start works simultaneously from different points. Metro Rail has set up a five- member consortium led by Egis Rail SA, France as general consultants, who will assist in design, supervision, quality control, safety and contract management. “Design and alignment of underground portions of the two corridors will be finalised and tenders will be awarded only after the general consultants submit their report,” the official added.
“The services will have the potential to take 16 buses and 300 cars and 600 motorcycles off the roads. The two routes together will take off 30 lakh commuters off the road,” Metro Rail managing director T V Somanathan said.
Metro Rail will have interconnecting stations at Fort, Central, Egmore, Guindy, Alandur, St Thomas Mount and Koyambedu bus terminus. Metro Rail’s elevated corridor will pass over the Kathipara flyover and proceed as an elevated stretch till the airport. “We are planning to take it as an elevated stretch so that it will be on level with the first floor departure section of the passenger terminals at the airport,” Somanathan added.

-source from PROPERTYNICE.COM