*Adyar River near Kotturpuram / Boat Club*
Boats in Chennai Rivers are a rare sight & those birds flocking the trees makes it even better.
If one portion of the river can be like this , one can hope that the whole stretch can be revived and given life.
😍🤞
⛱️Blue Flag Beach Kovalam, ECR is by far the best beach in Chennai after the crowd favourites Marina & Bessy
🏖 Blue Flag certification signifies it to be one of the cleanest beaches in the country.
🌊 Also popular for surfing
🏖 Multiple rest & chillout spots
#ChennaiRains
Good to see Adyar River back to life and flowing with water.
Compared to Cooum , Adyar has higher chances of getting restored and coming back to life permanently if restoration is taken up seriously.
Shot near Manapakkam
One of the very few residential buildings in Chennai which stands out from the rest and looks unique.
Has a lot of green spaces and terraces within the structure
16 floor residential tower
One Crest by Kalpataru, Numgambakkam
A 5Bhk apartment here costs more than 15 crore
Port-Maduravoyal Expressway🤩
▫️A cable stayed viaduct will soar over the existing maduravoyal cloverleaf & entry/exit ramps from the elevated road wud merge with the existing flyover level
▫️With such a complex structure interchange would undergo massive change in coming yrs
🚇Porur Bypass Metro Station Will be Chennai's 1st metro station with a lake view
👉It will also be the first metro stn to be completed in Ph-2
👉 Other Stns with a lake view will be ELCOT, Sholinganallur Lake,
Retteri
Compared to ph1 stns, ph2 stns will be smaller in size
Work on Indira Nagar Jn. U TURN flyover is now fully complete. It is one of the two u turn flyovers on OMR to reduce traffic congestion @ Thiruvanmiyur & Indira Nagar Jn.
Interior pictures of Upcoming Bus Terminus at Kilambakkam
Inauguration date is yet to be announced for this much awaited terminus.
Source :
@News18TamilNadu
Vande Bharat express being manufactured at ICF chennai..
400 trains plans over the next 3 years.. out of which 75 are planned for the I-Day 22...
Wondering how many routes will be allocated to Chennai/TN/ Southern Railway
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
Thats fast🤩🤩💥 !
The 1st pair of Ugirders of CMRL ph2 are now in place near Ramachandra hospital.
🚇8 months since full fledged construction began and
@KEC_Intl
have been unstoppable!
@cmrlofficial
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
Wonder y the gap inbetween
Maybe another girder?🤔
🚇First look at the interiors of Vande Bharat Express 2.0 manufactured at ICF Chennai.
🔸️The Train is most likely to be flagged of from chennai on AUG 15 by PM MODI
🔸️Among a host of upgrades & features, the train will have aircraft style seating made by TATA
@UpdatesChennai
🚇Chennai Metro Phase 2 & MRTS double decker stretch gets goin.
▫️The 500m stretch from St.Thomas Mt station - IRR is 1 of its kind in the country.💥
▫️The taller piers will have metro and the piers below will have MRTS trains running
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
@marinebharat
🌉 List of cable stayed bridges coming up in
#chennai
as part of 20.5 km PORT-MADURAVOYAL elevated road
1. Maduravoyal clover leaf interchange
A suspension bridge with cloverleaf entry&exits above the existing one @ maduravoyal interchange making it a double level cloverleaf.
⭕ Skywalk/FOB at GST road connecting Tambaram Bus stand & Tambaram Railway station is now fully open
🔹️Commuters can now directly get down @ Railway platforms
🔹️A ticket counter is also built in the FOB
🔹️ East Tambaram Residents will also benefit immensely
@DrmChennai
🏗️Upcoming Elevated Corridors in Chennai
On National Highways
🔸Port-Maduravoyal 2 tier Rd-20.5km-4+4 lane
🔸Maduravoyal-Sriperumbudur Elevated Rd-23.2km-6 lane(BLR Expway Link)
🔸Tambaram-Chengalpet Elevated Rd-25.2km-6 lane
🔸Madhavaram-Nallur Elevated Rd-10.4km-6 lane
1/2
🏗️🚇MRTS- Metro Double Decker stretch viewed from St.Thomas Mt. Metro
The sheer size of those Pillars🤩🔥
The stretch has a common alignment with Metro Line5 & the much-delayed MRTS extension missing link.
Metro on top level & MRTS on bottom level
@TheMetroRailGuy
🚉Two tier metro viaduct taking shape on arcot rd
🔹Line-4 on level 1 & Line-5 on level 2 for 4km & will have 4 2ble deck stations
🔹The stations will have island platforms in b2wn tracks like underground stns & interchange wil b easier than alandur
@UpdatesChennai
@TheVenks
🚇Chennai Metro - Arcot Road Progress
👉Work has picked up pace in most parts & considerable Progress is visible
👉Double decker stretch still has a lot of work left
👉Roads have been relaid for monsoon along the stretch
👉This stretch might solidly take another 2 yrs to complete
♦️CMRL line-5 update
🔹️Eechangadu Jn - Kovilambakkam - Velakkal stretch progressing well
🔹️Construction by HCC-KEC.
🔹️All packages done by Hcc-kec are miles ahead in progress compared to L&T
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
@TheVenks
🏗️Design of Clover Leaf like Interchange
coming up near Sriperumbudur as part of
Chennai Peripheral Ring Road
🔹Connecting Chennai- Bengaluru Highway with Peripheral Ring Road towards Thiruvallur &
Singa Perumal Koil
🚇LINE5 update
🏗️Massive pillars slowly rising @ Kathipara Jn
♦️The piers will soar above kathipara flyover, metro line1 & line2 @ max height of 40m
♦️Building Demolition & barricading done towards Alandur stn
♦️Kathipara Jn & Alandur stn will become a metro hub
@UpdatesChennai
🚇CMRL Line-4
🏗️Construction of shaft work is underway @ Lighthouse metro station
🏗️TBM'S will be assembled & lowered here
🏗️Tunnelling is expected to commence in June & is to be completed by 2025
🏗️Another TBM will be lowered in Panagal Park in Oct in this line.
⚡🌁By 2026-27, Chennai will have 4 types of Double deck/2 tier flyovers
🔹️3.15 km Metro cumHighway fly
🔹️12 km-2 tier elevated road ( 1 fr port based & 1 for city based vehicles)
🔹️500m - Metro cum MRTS
🔹️4km - Metro cum Metro(2 lines)
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
@TheVenks
🚇Chennai Metro Corridor 5
👉 New Koyambedu Metro Station coming up right next to the existing phase 1 station with Interchange facilities.
👉Future extension from Koyambedu to Avadi is on cards, so will have to see if there is provisions for that in the upcoming station.
Olympia cyberspace IT park as seen from newly inaugurated Kalaignar Centenary Hospital.
1.16 mn sqft commercial space
B+4S+10F
@UpdatesChennai
@TheVenks
🚇Airport-Kilambakkm metro
🔹️Land acquisition & utility shifting may begin soon for 15.3km extension
🔹️CMRL has requested 800 crs funding from gvt to start process
🔹️CUMTA had given in-principle approval earlier
@UpdatesChennai
@cmrlofficial
@TawdeVinod
🚍 Kilambakkam Bus Terminus Update
Construction of Terminal Building is in progress
70% of the structural work seems to b complete.
Top floor and front facade needs to be completed
Practically speaking wud be happy to see it complete b4 year end.
🚇CMRL PH-2
Madhavaram Metro Depot - Construction Status
👉Depot area : 68 acres
👉Contractor : URC
👉*73 acres* is also earmarked for future property development.
❗️Thread on Upcoming Metro Lines planned by Chennai Metro Rail & their status
🚇Airport-Kilambakkam- 15.3km
( DPR sent to CG for approval )
🚇Koyambedu - Avadi/Pattabiram - 16-18km ( tenders called for DPR )
🚇Poonamalee - Parandur Airport -
44km( tenders called for DPR)
1/2..
⭕️A glimpse of upcoming 2 lane uni-directional flyover @ Madhya kailash jn. which will also include a foot over bridge to completely eliminate the signal at the junction
⭕️This 650m flyover will allow vehicles from guindy towards OMR
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
@updates_tn
@TheVenks
Master-Plan of House of Hiranandani , OMR .
One of the largest residential townships in chennai
spread over 130 acres approximately , only 40% of the whole area has been developed so far with 14 towers
45 floor tower - Anchorage is currently under construction.
🚍Kilambakkam Bus terminus status
Looks massive in terms of size but
Still a lot of work seems to be pending in the terminal building
Diwali opening seems out of reach
Pongal'23 can be a more realistic target
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
@TheVenks
Source:
@NewsTamilTV24x7
🏢International Tech Park Chennai - Radial Road
🔹Developer: CapitaLand
🔹It is being developed in 2 phases.
🔹Phase 1 has 2 Blocks (3B+G+10F) of 1.3 million sq ft each
🔹Phase 2 has 2 Blocks & is expected to be ready for operations by Q2 2024
@UpdatesChennai
@TheVenks
@VinTN
♦️Line 5 update
Retteri Jn.-Shastri nagar stretch
U girders,piers,pier caps work taking place simultaneously
♦️The only stretch wer L&T is proactive
♦️Madhavaram Depot-Retteri Jn elevated section is top priority & to be opened by 2026 as per CMRL
@UpdatesChennai
@TheVenks
@VinTN
🤩Great News for Tambaram Residents!
🛩️Tambaram Air Force station to open for public
Facilities include:
🔸Aero park with fighter planes which are not in use will be displayed
🔸Recently developed Pond with walkways
🔸A Runway for flying enthusiasts
🔸Cricket & Hockey Ground
💫Chennai Fintech City Update
Construction of Basement for *Fintech Tower* underway in Nandambakkam near Chennai Trade Centre
Other Infrastructure works like roads , stormwater drains are also underway for Fintech City Phase 1
🚇Tambaram - Velachery metro to be extended up to Guindy/ Little Mount
🚇CMRL has signed an agreement with SYSTRA to conduct a traffic demand study in the route
🚇Interchange stns @
Tambaram - ph1 extn
Medavakkam- Ph2
Guindy/Little Mount- Ph 1
My Tentative Route/Alignment 👇
🛣
Maduravoyal - Sriperumbudur Road widening
🚧6 lane carriageway +( 2+2) lane service road on either side
🚧Work is happening @ brisk pace and is almost complete in Maduravoyal - Nazarathpet stretch
#chennai
U-Girders coming up at rapid pace at various places along porur - poonamalee stretch .
From the placement of U Girders it is evident that majority of stations in porur-poonamlee stretch would have island platforms
@UpdatesChennai
@TheMetroRailGuy
🚉CMRL line 4 update
The First set of U Girders have been placed on First tier of the Double deck metro viaductbetween Porur & Alapakkam Stations
Work has picked up pace in this stretch , but there is min 2 yrs of work left
@UpdatesChennai
@TheMetroRailGuy
@TheVenks
@VinTN
📢T Nagar skywalk is nearing completion
🔹️Length : 550m
🔹️Mambalam Station - T Nagar Bus Stand
🔹️Entry/exit on T Nagar bus stand side is almost done
🔹️Entry/exit towards T nagar flyover is still pending
🔹️Medians are planted & roads r relaid
@UpdatesChennai
Apollo Hospitals has bought a
7 acre mall property in Karapakkam for 170cr whose construction was stalled way back in 2012 . It will be redeveloped into 700-800 bed speciality hospital
@UpdatesChennai
@TheVenks
@VinTN
@updates_tn
📢CMRL Ph-2 Red line update
⚡L&T seems to be at their best in this stretch compared to othr stretches
Erection of piers and pier caps is underway in a 2.5km stretch from MMBT - Retteri ramp where it changes to UG
@UpdatesChennai
@TheMetroRailGuy
@cmrlofficial
💙 CMRL has opted * BLUE * to be the colour for Phase2 metro trains
💙 The decision has been taken to maintain uniformity , since the trains will be operated on inter corridor routes
💙 CMRL wants Chennai Metro to be identified with blue
@UpdatesChennai
Source :
@the_hindu
📷Renders of Upcoming Suburban Railway Station @ Kilambakkam & Skywalk connevting the Station with kilambakkam bus terminus.
◽️The foundation stone for the skywalk was laid yesterday by the CM !
🚇CMRL line 4 update
🔸️Pic1:Buildings demolished near Porur Jn
This is wer line 4 will take a turn & cross porur flyover
🔸️Pic 2 ,3:Chennai bypass crossing station box under construction.This will be the first lakeview station in chennai
@TheVenks
@VinTN
@UpdatesChennai
🚇1st Look of Chennai Metro Ph-2 driverless trains by ALSTOM for
Line 4
🚇36 trains of 3 coaches with max capacity of 1000
🚇New Features compared to ph-1 trains
◽️Driver view
◽️Charging points
◽️Digital route maps
◽️Perch seats
◽️Dedicated spaces for wheel chair
TVS Sundaram iconic property on Anna Salai is up for sale.
This property measures about 89 grnds/3.14 lakhs sq.ft
Prestige seems to b the frontrunner among othr players like brigade,purvankara,embassy and has closed a deal of 550cr.
EXPECTIN A COMMERCIAL HIGH RISE FROM PRESTGE
⚡️Exciting News ⚡️
CHENNAI-TRICHY greenfield expressway with spur to Tanjavur to be developed under Bharatmala Phase2
⭕️Length : 310kms
⭕️DPR is under preparation for more than a year .
Pillayarpatti - Thuthukudi greenfield highway will also be developed ( not exp.) (1/n)
Scenes today afternoon on Tambaram flyover
Group of people had to cut down the hanging wire&then lift the pole to place it aside to make sure traffic can pass thru
Extremely lucky that there wer no mishaps. it could have severely injured or even killed a commuter
@UpdatesChennai
🌆Prestige is set to launch "Pallava Gardens", a residential project on Radial Road,Pallavaram
🏢It is spread over 22 acres & will have Apartments with 2B+G+14 configuration
🏢Total Built up area - 2.47 Mn Sq.ft
🏢A total of 2,269 units spread across 33 blocks
@UpdatesChennai
Srinivasa setu , Tirupati
Phase1 (2km) of this elevated corridor is now open
This flyover will help hassle free movement of pilgrims to Tirumala temple foothills avoiding the city traffic
The paint job on this flyover looks cool 💥
@manachittooru
@UpdatesChennai
⚡Maduravoyal-Sriperumbudur road widening progress
▫️6 lane carriageway+2 lane+2 lane service road
▫️Once widening is complete 21km elelvated corridor will be built linking Chennai Bengaluru expressway from irungatukotai & Maduravoyal Port elevated road
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
📢CMRL LINE 5
▫️Visible progress as Pillars r starting to take shape
▫️While the ones visible in pic 1 will carry only the metro,
pic2&3 with peirs u/c will have provisions for metro&flyover in single pillar
▫️Pic 4- piling underway in adyar river
@UpdatesChennai
@updates_tn
🚇Katupakkam Metro & Flyover
👉Originally a Rotary Flyover was planned at budget of 320crs @ Katupakam-Kumananchavadi-Kundrathur Road Jn
👉But from the pier design @ site it appears that a 2ble deck viaduct with flyover at level 1 is being built for 1.2km length
@UpdatesChennai
🚇CMRL phase 2 line 5
Work has begun at kathipara urban square
3 massive & super tall piers will be built along/within the cloverleaves of the flyover .
This line will zip past green line and blue line at a height of 34m.
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
@TheVenks
@RohanGigi
An elevated road from Teynampet - Saidapet will be built on Anna salai at a cost of Rs.485 crore to decongest major junctions along the arterial road- TN highways minister in assembly (1/2)
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
@updates_tn
🚉 CMRL LINE-5
Progress of 3.1 km Road cum Metro 2ble deck corridor on Mt. Poonamallee Rd
Pic 1-3 - 2ble deck metro /flyover
Pic 4 - U girders over adyar river
🚇Tambaram-Velachery metro update
Despite completing feasibility study for light rail, CMRL are planning to opt for a metro/mass transit instead in the route.
The DPR for a conventional metro is underway & is 50% complete
@UpdatesChennai
@TheMetroRailGuy
@updates_tn
@TheVenks
Status of U-turn shaped flyover near Indira nagar MRTS.. it is one of 2 flyovers to decongest thiruvanmiyur Junction
Work on approach ramps have started and 1 more span left .. expect it to be ready in 4 months
@UpdatesChennai2
@VinTN
List of stadiums/ facilitiesl to be built in Mega sports City planned in chennai..
No exclusive stadiums for cricket & football (Understandable)
The proposed Sports city to come up in 500 acres out of 3000 acres
Land belonging to govt near thiruporur
Airport-Kilamabakkam MetroUpdate
🚇15.3km 12statn
🚇DPR sent to state govt for approval
🚇CMRL in search of funding agencies
🚇Fully elevated along middle/left of GSTroad
🚇CMRL willing to make few minor changes in
alignment
@UpdatesChennai
@updates_tn
@VinTN
@TheVenks
🏗 Chennai FinTech City Update
Excavation works underway for the construction of upcoming Fintech Tower inside Fintech city pHase 1 near Chennai Trade Centre , Nandambakkam
Other infrastructure works also underway
@UpdatesChennai
@TheVenks
@VinTN
🏙️⚡️BIg!
Fintech Tower Renders
➡️Fintech tower to built as part of Fintech city phase-1 on 56 acres in Nandambakam near Trade center
➡️Total built up area of Fintech Tower is around 5.6 lakhs sq.ft with 2 Basement +3 Podiums+9 Floors structure
➡️The tower will come upon 1.9acrs
⚡️Southern Railways invites EOI for redevelopment of EGMORE station .
⚡️Scope will include carrying out the detailed designing and construction of Departure concourse, Foot over bridges, Subway, unpaid connection, over bridge for parcel movements, Multi-level parking (1/n)
🚇Third Metro Depot to be built @ Siruseri SIPCOT in Phase-2
🔹It was part of original ph-2 DPR before it was dropped.
🔹It will serve Corridor-3 primarily & will help operations to begin in OMR stretch before UG connection
🔹In future will also cater to kilambakkam extension
Government estate metro station after the match yesterday.
Free entry for those with match tickets and metro being the only piblic transit option available ,
It was almost a stampede at government estate metro
@UpdatesChennai
🚧📍Perungalathur flyover update
▫️One arm of the elliptical flyover
( vandalur - tambaram side ) is in final stages of completion and is expected to be thrown open for use in a month or two .
▫️Approach ramp and painting work in progress
@UpdatesChennai
@VinTN
@TNupdates_
The same CMRL which got approval frm state/central govt and funding from Multinational bank for this stretch have decided to trim it.
Definitely some political/transport union backhand in this stupid decision.. which conveniently leaves out people's welfare
Elevate 21 is an upcoming 21 storeyed (B+S+21) residential building in OMR kottivakkam 600m from SRP tools jn.
This is also opposite the upcoming FORUM ONE OMR mall & hotel by prestige( 2B+3G+11)
The SRP tools region is seeing a lot of new projects with DLF downtown & metro soon
🚍 Colours of MTC buses & town buses r going to be changed soon
🚍 The new paint scheme is awaiting the CM's approval
🚍 Informed by TN Transport Minister
👇B elow are the pictures of the refurbished town buses clicked recently by
@tnstcbus
Can expect this to be the new colour
Tamil Nadu Govt has allocated an initial sum of 6 crs for TIDCO to do a feasibility study for High Speed Rail System (Guess Semi HSR) & Dedicated Freight Corridor in the state in partnership with Indian Railways & Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) 🙌🤩🚄
Work on Indira Nagar Jn. U TURN flyover is now fully complete. It is one of the two u turn flyovers on OMR to reduce traffic congestion @ Thiruvanmiyur & Indira Nagar Jn.
Madhavaram Depot
⭕️CMRL will take possession of 141 acres of
govt. land in Madhavaram for the depot .
⭕️The Depot will be massive built in 68 acres to accomodate 112 trains
⚡️Remaining 83 acres has been earmarked for Property Development😍
Contractor URC constructions (1/2)
🚉 Chennai Metro Line-4 Update
➡️Track laying work on the 9km stretch between Poonamalee Bypass - Porur Station will begin this October
➡️It was scheduled to begin in July , but gaps in between viaduct due to delay in station land Acquisition is the reason for delay.
➡️ NHAI has begun installing LED Illumination Poles along the entire Stretch of 31km Chennai Bypass.
➡️ Expecting the stretch to be completely illumimated in the coming months.
@UpdatesChennai
🚇CMRL Line5 update
🔹Construction activity begins for elevated line along boundary of Nanmangalam Forest near Medavakam koot Rd
🔹CMRL recently got environmental clearance for construction inside forest premises
🔹Medavakam koot rd station will b built here
@TheMetroRailGuy