Chennai Flyover Projects [Archive] - Page 9

Bless

December 29th, 2009, 11:33 AM

:bash::bash:
Hello , 2hrs is ok for travelling to bangalore airport,because it is located outskirts of bangalore.Imagine here iam travelling daily from CMBT to Siruseri,every day it is taking 2.5hrs:bash::ohno: to reach sirueri(bus),with stupid dust all the way.Iam vary sorry for the two wheelers with lot of dust all along the way from velachery to siruseri..!! really horrible roads in velachery(DUST,DUST all the roads are full of dust)
:bash::bash:

Do you go by company bus? if so and if its possible to en route via, bypass road, Vandalur and kelambakkam, how long it would take, (as per google maps I agree its 1.5 times the city route), but since its 55 kms, i sure you would cover this distance in 1:30 mins. hope route would be green and traffic free. or you can drive once to check the traffic.

If its prove to be really helpful, talk to your HR saying the productivity would improve etc...

FYI
Route from CMBT to TCS (TCS is just for reference)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Jawaharlal+Nehru+Rd&daddr=Kanchipuram,+Tamil+Nadu,+India+(TCS+siruseri)&hl=en&geocode=FdBrxwAdRdnHBA%3BFUfBwwAdkATIBCH8phZcA7op6g&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=15&sll=13.070658,80.199938&sspn=0.037163,0.051885&ie=UTF8&ll=13.053016,80.213799&spn=0.037166,0.051885&z=15

check alternate route.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Jawaharlal+Nehru+Rd&daddr=13.061419,80.162001+to:Kanchipuram,+Tamil+Nadu,+India+(TCS+siruseri)&hl=en&geocode=FdBrxwAdRdnHBA%3B%3BFUfBwwAdkATIBCH8phZcA7op6g&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=14&via=1&sll=13.041686,80.182171&sspn=0.074335,0.103769&ie=UTF8&ll=13.032321,80.165606&spn=0.074338,0.103769&z=14

Shan_Sara

December 29th, 2009, 12:30 PM

Mad 4 Madras

December 29th, 2009, 12:44 PM

Puffffff....too many hammers for MyCity123, please give him a break. Chennai may be after 5years down, will be having same problem...(don't kill me, I said may be)

darkprinz

December 29th, 2009, 01:02 PM

^^ Dude chill , WEAR A HELMET :nuts::nuts::banana:

think_different

December 29th, 2009, 03:09 PM

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4144/15252230.jpg

v4Chennai

December 30th, 2009, 03:27 AM

Wallajah Rd, Sivananda Salai bridges to be widened to reduce congestion
Julie Mariappan | TNN

Chennai: Keeping pace with the works on the new secretariat complex at the Omandurar government estate, the Chennai Corporation is racing to widen bridges on Wallajah Road and Sivananda Salai in Chepauk. The two bridges, over the Buckingham Canal, are slated for completion in June 2010.
“The traffic density is expected to increase once the new secretariat becomes functional and narrow bridges will not be able to cater to the needs of the huge vehicular populace, hence the widening programme,” a government official said. The corporation’s elected council is expected to give its nod for the project at the monthly meet slated for this week.
The civic body finalised the tenders recently after several futile attempts earlier. “Even now the cost quoted by the identified bidder is 36% higher than the estimated price in both the projects. As soon as the elected council gives its nod, the project will be kicked off at once,” a government official told TOI. The bidder has quoted a sum of Rs 2.8 crore for the two projects.
As per the plan, the bridge at Sivananda Salai will be widened by 7.5 metres at the southern end. This includes six metres of carriageway and another 1.5 metres for footpath, which is expected to go down well with the widening of the entire stretch. The bus route roads department has already engaged contractors to widen the road by 19 metres. The works are expected to be completed by the end of January, within days of Metrowater shifting its pipelines.
Far away, the forked bridge on Wallajah Road will be widened by 25 metres and the “gaping hole” between the branching spans cemented. In both cases, sources said, the length would be maintained at 19 metres. The tender committee, comprising senior officials, has agreed upon the high-cost quotation by the lowest bidder, citing recentlycompleted highways’ projects at similar prices.
“There is a need to finalise these tenders as the projects have to be completed in six months. Construction can be taken up only at night due to heavy vehicular movement,” the official added.
julie.mariappan@timesgroup.com

TIME FOR A MAKEOVER: The forked bridge above the Buckingham canal on Wallajah Road is all set for expansion

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=TOICH/2009/12/30/5/Img/Pc0051000.jpg
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ChennaiIndian

December 31st, 2009, 12:14 AM

Sometime back they said that it will done by Mar 2010 but its delayed now :(

http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/31/stories/2009123158900300.htm

http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/31/images/2009123158900301.jpg

CHENNAI: The long wait for motorists at the Koyambedu junction for traffic to clear may soon be a thing of the past with the grade separator under construction there set to be completed by May next year.

According to officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the implementing agency of the project, nearly 50 per cent of the work has been completed. This would be the third such facility on Inner Ring Road — after the grade separators at Kathipara and Padi junctions — to decongest traffic.

The piling work, the difficult portion of the project, is over. Construction of the superstructure is under way. Of the total 67 spans to be built, 32 have been completed, an official said.

The design of the Koyambedu grade separator would be similar to that of the clover-shaped one at Kathipara junction. However, the upcoming facility would have only three loops, except on the stretch leading to Maduravoyal, the official said. The project is being implemented at a cost of Rs.100 crore.

Traffic density at the junction, which is also used by heavy vehicles, is estimated to be one lakh passenger car units daily. Many motorists look forward to the opening of the grade separator, as it would smoothen the traffic flow at the junction connecting Inner Ring Road and Poonamallee High Road.

On the delay in implementing the project — the Koyambedu grade separator was bound to be completed two years ago — an official said the process of land acquisition had pushed the deadline to 2010. :bash:

“We still have to demolish about 20 buildings on the stretch of Poonamallee High Road towards Maduravoyal to acquire space of five to six m for the project,” the official said. :ohno:

Once Chennai Metrowater completes its work of laying pipeline to transmit water from Chembarambakkam treatment plant to its network in Koyambedu, the construction would be expedited, the official added.

Mad 4 Madras

December 31st, 2009, 06:32 AM

“We still have to demolish about 20 buildings on the stretch of Poonamallee High Road towards Maduravoyal to acquire space of five to six m for the project,” the official said. :ohno:

Then sure May 2010 is not possible, and from the picture we can see it is not nearly 50% complete. Another Eye-Wash.
It will sure take another year for this monster. May be, May 2011

Universal_Peace

December 31st, 2009, 06:53 AM

NHAI website shows Koyambedu flyover will be completed only by Dec 2010

ceeznic pirate

December 31st, 2009, 07:06 AM

http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/31/images/2009123158900301.jpg

see the traffic in the left side of the flyover :ohno::ohno:

krishnancv

December 31st, 2009, 07:42 AM

Here is the initial rendering of the flyover.

http://i9.tinypic.com/3z69nrl.jpg

According to it, instead of the 4th loop(as in the case of a normal cloverleaf flyover) there is supposed to be an underpass for taking a right turn from the parrys side at the junction. So that the intersection becomes completely signal free. But here in the above news it states that there are 3 loops but there is no mention of the under pass. Can anybody clarify

ChennaiLeader

December 31st, 2009, 08:09 AM

:ohno:Chennai may not be the city of fly over, agreed, but why is that most of you are comparing Chennai with Delhi and Mumbai. It is crystal clear fact that these are the most pampered cities in India (Delhi being the capital & Mumbai - Economic capital) and always on the top of the list for any new projects announced, atmost attention is given on every aspect. Presently added to this is Bangalore – IT capital. Chennai is the least city to get any kind of project sanctions or help from CG. Best example is the Airport project, we are last to get the nod for the expansion project, not even a new one. So is our fate. TN government with its limited resources and with the minimal support (mostly no support) of CG is doing some good things for the people. You people here just go on criticize irrespective of whether it is good or bad. Please realize we are not capital, economic capital or IT capital of India. ….

You gotta be kidding:lol:
Check this out:
I believe this one is from the 14th Lok Sabha

With 13 ministers, Tamil Nadu tops with central projects
August 21st, 2008 - 10:58 am ICT by IANS Tell a Friend -

New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) With 13 ministers in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government, Tamil Nadu has been allocated 62 major central projects valued at almost Rs.409 billion (Rs.40,900 crore) in the past four and a half years.It tops all states in investments allocated.

The next in line is Maharashtra with 76 major central projects, an estimated investment of Rs.289.59 billion.

Bihar, home state of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, comes third with 51 projects valued at over Rs.289.23 billion, while 79 major projects with an estimated cost of over Rs.201.35 billion are being implemented in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state.

Andhra Pradesh has got 69 major projects with an estimated investment of over Rs.286.91 billion, Madhya Pradesh 41 projects at Rs.112.13 billion and Rajasthan has 33 major projects worth Rs.131.86 billion.

“As of April 1, 2008, Tamil Nadu tops the list with 62 central sector projects with an estimated cost of over Rs.40,895.46 crore,” said a senior official in the ministry of statistics and programme implementation.

“The total number of central sector projects stand at 868 with an estimated cost of Rs.403,755.85 crore (over Rs.4 trillion),” the official told IANS.

The central projects are mainly related to capacity building in areas like atomic energy, civil aviation, power, railways, road transport, shipping, ports and telecommunications.

Out of a total 62 central projects under implementation in Tamil Nadu, 33 are related to road, shipping and highway.

Of these, 30 projects with an estimated value of Rs.108.6 billion are for building or improving roads, while three, valued at over Rs.25.62 billion, are in shipping and ports sectors.

Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Minister T.R. Baalu is from the DMK, an important ally of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

Other prominent members of the Manmohan Singh government from Tamil Nadu are Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister G.K. Vasan, both from the Congress, Communications and Information Technology Minister A. Raja (DMK), and Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK).

Source: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/with-13-ministers-tamil-nadu-tops-with-central-projects_10086735.html)

...and in the 15th Lok Sabha TN is still in first place in the number of ministers (It now just shares that place with Maharashtra)
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/politics/loksabhafinal/clistState.php

So to say "Chennai is the least city to get any kind of project sanctions or help from CG." and "TN government with its limited resources and with the minimal support (mostly no support) of CG is doing some good things for the people." just doesn't seem right to me.:ohno:

venkatm

December 31st, 2009, 09:41 AM

The DMK, PMK and communist parties were responsible for Chennai airport not getting privatized though Praful Patel tried his best. Chennai and Kolkata were retained under AAI. To criticize central govt when Baalu, Raja and Maran were looting the coffers is unfair, to say the least

Shan_Sara

December 31st, 2009, 10:31 AM

You gotta be kidding:lol:
Check this out:
I believe this one is from the 14th Lok Sabha

With 13 ministers, Tamil Nadu tops with central projects
August 21st, 2008 - 10:58 am ICT by IANS Tell a Friend -

New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) With 13 ministers in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government, Tamil Nadu has been allocated 62 major central projects valued at almost Rs.409 billion (Rs.40,900 crore) in the past four and a half years.It tops all states in investments allocated.

The next in line is Maharashtra with 76 major central projects, an estimated investment of Rs.289.59 billion.

Bihar, home state of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, comes third with 51 projects valued at over Rs.289.23 billion, while 79 major projects with an estimated cost of over Rs.201.35 billion are being implemented in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state.

Andhra Pradesh has got 69 major projects with an estimated investment of over Rs.286.91 billion, Madhya Pradesh 41 projects at Rs.112.13 billion and Rajasthan has 33 major projects worth Rs.131.86 billion.

“As of April 1, 2008, Tamil Nadu tops the list with 62 central sector projects with an estimated cost of over Rs.40,895.46 crore,” said a senior official in the ministry of statistics and programme implementation.

“The total number of central sector projects stand at 868 with an estimated cost of Rs.403,755.85 crore (over Rs.4 trillion),” the official told IANS.

The central projects are mainly related to capacity building in areas like atomic energy, civil aviation, power, railways, road transport, shipping, ports and telecommunications.

Out of a total 62 central projects under implementation in Tamil Nadu, 33 are related to road, shipping and highway.

Of these, 30 projects with an estimated value of Rs.108.6 billion are for building or improving roads, while three, valued at over Rs.25.62 billion, are in shipping and ports sectors.

Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Minister T.R. Baalu is from the DMK, an important ally of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

Other prominent members of the Manmohan Singh government from Tamil Nadu are Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister G.K. Vasan, both from the Congress, Communications and Information Technology Minister A. Raja (DMK), and Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK).

Source: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/with-13-ministers-tamil-nadu-tops-with-central-projects_10086735.html)

...and in the 15th Lok Sabha TN is still in first place in the number of ministers (It now just shares that place with Maharashtra)
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/politics/loksabhafinal/clistState.php

So to say "Chennai is the least city to get any kind of project sanctions or help from CG." and "TN government with its limited resources and with the minimal support (mostly no support) of CG is doing some good things for the people." just doesn't seem right to me.:ohno:

I think Raji has got fair amount of explantation from the above Post....:nuts::nuts:

Mad 4 Madras

December 31st, 2009, 10:56 AM

^^ I cannot fully agree to this. TN is getting projects cleared by CG what the other states got long back. Chennai was the last to get nod for Metro, SR projects, ORR-IRR by NHAI (same for HYD, BNG are almost complete), Sea Port and Airport Expansions, etc...etc...

Raji's point must be taken to the time and year of clearance for TN where it comes last (in most cases CG have no other choice other than execute) and not the project's money value. Also you can see the number of projects are less compared to Maharashtra or even UP. Assume Chennai's Metro been cleared in year 2004 or 2005, the whole project cost would be way less than today's cost.

Another thing that is very clear from ChennaiLeader's post is that TN gets projects only when they have more ministers in central. If no ministers no clearance. What else you need to prove that TN gets everything last?

Bless

December 31st, 2009, 11:06 AM

I think Raji has got fair amount of explantation from the above Post....:nuts::nuts:

I hope no,
#1) Raji,was talking about cities and this report is about state. (there is a slight difference between two)

#2) I'm slightly skeptical about the report. 62 major project for TN but worth 408 b. where us 76 & 79 major projects worth aprox 289 b and again 69 major projects takes 286b. Even though I agree that, individual project cost varies. I feel this Rupees alloted to TN looks like inflated. (if any one else proves i'm wrong, i'll be more than happy).

#3) Again if you look by number of projects, TN is not on the top three of the list.

#4) I'll be happy again if we have the list of 30 projects allotted for TN road project, its current status, comparison of road project with other states.
Please refer http://www.nhai.org to find road projects distributed by state (Not to go only with individual NHDP phase)

PS. Please refrain from politics, even though there were few posts already stared. excuse them.

Bless

December 31st, 2009, 11:31 AM

I hope no,
#1) Raji,was talking about cities and this report is about state. (there is a slight difference between two)

#2) I'm slightly skeptical about the report. 62 major project for TN but worth 408 b. where us 76 & 79 major projects worth aprox 289 b and again 69 major projects takes 286b. Even though I agree that, individual project cost varies. I feel this Rupees alloted to TN looks like inflated. (if any one else proves i'm wrong, i'll be more than happy).

#3) Again if you look by number of projects, TN is not on the top three of the list.

#4) I'll be happy again if we have the list of 30 projects allotted for TN road project, its current status, comparison of road project with other states.
Please refer http://www.nhai.org to find road projects distributed by state (Not to go only with individual NHDP phase)

PS. Please refrain from politics, even though there were few posts already stared. excuse them.

To Add more:
The report didn't mention about the duration about which the stats are taken. & to prove the counter argument

Please refer
http://planningcommission.gov.in/plans/mapbody.html
http://planningcommission.gov.in/plans/sdrbody.html

Of course the above two talks only about 10th five year plan. ie during 2002 & 2007.

Mad 4 Madras

December 31st, 2009, 11:45 AM

Unlike other states mostly TN get projects cleared in " Now or Never" situations. CG approve and start, take decades to finish with poor quality.
MRTS is a best classical planned diaster.

nandan_ks

December 31st, 2009, 12:08 PM

Guess, Its a case of Grass is Greener on the other side. Karnataka has always elected 2 different political parties at the Center and the State. It took more than 10 years to get the Airport project approved :ohno:

ChicagoThalapathi

December 31st, 2009, 07:01 PM

Koyambedu grade separator by May :yes: :yes:

CHENNAI: The long wait for motorists at the Koyambedu junction for traffic to clear may soon be a thing of the past with the grade separator under construction there set to be completed by May next year.

According to officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the implementing agency of the project, nearly 50 per cent of the work has been completed. This would be the third such facility on Inner Ring Road — after the grade separators at Kathipara and Padi junctions — to decongest traffic.

The piling work, the difficult portion of the project, is over. Construction of the superstructure is under way. Of the total 67 spans to be built, 32 have been completed, an official said.

The design of the Koyambedu grade separator would be similar to that of the clover-shaped one at Kathipara junction. However, the upcoming facility would have only three loops, except on the stretch leading to Maduravoyal, the official said. The project is being implemented at a cost of Rs.100 crore.

Traffic density at the junction, which is also used by heavy vehicles, is estimated to be one lakh passenger car units daily. Many motorists look forward to the opening of the grade separator, as it would smoothen the traffic flow at the junction connecting Inner Ring Road and Poonamallee High Road.

On the delay in implementing the project — the Koyambedu grade separator was bound to be completed two years ago — an official said the process of land acquisition had pushed the deadline to 2010.

“We still have to demolish about 20 buildings on the stretch of Poonamallee High Road towards Maduravoyal to acquire space of five to six m for the project,” the official said.

Once Chennai Metrowater completes its work of laying pipeline to transmit water from Chembarambakkam treatment plant to its network in Koyambedu, the construction would be expedited, the official added.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/31/stories/2009123158900300.htm

MyNation

January 1st, 2010, 04:07 AM

Chennai: Poonamallee High Road, one of the most congested arterial roads in the city, is likely to see more flyovers or an elevated highway soon. The state government is considering various plans to decongest the road, mainly a stretch from Chennai Central to Pulla Reddy Avenue in Aminjikarai.
As the 6-km stretch has as many as 15 traffic junctions in quick succession, the government is considering whether it can build more flyovers connecting two or three signal points or go in for one or two long elevated highways to cover the entire stretch. According to bureaucrats in the secretariat, the highways department is now preparing the ‘terms of reference’ detailing the options available to decongest the road.
Official sources said the government wants to take a decision as early as possible in the matter so that foundation works for flyovers or elevated highways can be completed by March 2011 so as not to disturb the Metro Rail stations which will be coming from Chennai Central to Pulla Reddy Avenue near Aminjikarai along Poonamallee High Road. “The road sees movement of one lakh cars a day and the average speed of vehicles is just 15 km per hour during peak hours now. The government wants to do something to reduce congestion on Poonamallee High Road,’’ a senior transport official told The Times of India.
Construction works for the 19-km long Port-Maduravoyal elevated highway along Poonamallee High Road (from Koyambedu to Maduravoyal) began last month. Poonamallee High Road is almost equal to Anna Salai in terms of vehicle movement. Plans to build two elevated highways on Anna Salai is already under the government’s consideration.
A traffic study conducted by the Highways Research Station last year found that Poonamallee High Road sees an an average of 1.2 lakh to 1.3 lakh vehicle movements every day. The road stands second in the list of 17 most congested stretches in the city. City traffic police have identified 23 most accident-prone stretches in the city and found that a 2 km distance of Poonamallee High Road, from Ega theatre to Anna Arch was the top killer stretch where 17 people lost their lives this year.

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOICH/2010/01/01&PageLabel=5&EntityId=Ar00502&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T

MyNation

January 1st, 2010, 04:12 AM

MyNation

January 1st, 2010, 04:15 AM

Chennai: The Road Under Bridge (RUB), official parlance for a subway, at a railway level crossing in Meenambakkam will finally be thrown open to the public on January 6, almost a decade after it was envisaged. It will be inaugurated by state highways minister V Swaminathan. Labour minister and local MLA T M Anbarasan are also expected to participate in the function.
In the past three months, the opening of the subway was put off at least five times. On November 30, highways minister Swaminathan inspected it and announced that the inauguration would be on December 20. It wasn’t to be. “The subway, a long-standing demand of thousands of residents in Alandur municipality, will also help students of A M Jain College reach the institution safely; earlier they had to cross the railway tracks,” Alandur municipal chairman A Duraivelu told TOI on Thursday.
The Rs 10.02 crore subway, part of the gauge-conversion works between Tambaram and Chennai Beach, was jointly executed by Southern Railway and the state highways department. “Our part of the project cost an estimated Rs 7.21 crore,” officials of the state highways department told TOI.
The two-lane subway is 860 metres long, 7.5 metres wide and four metres tall – enough for an MTC bus. Each of the two service lanes is 4.5 metres wide – enough for a car. Illuminated by 33 street lights, it has neatly-laid ramps, a water collection pit to store surplus rainwater. A stormwater drain along the service lanes will direct the excess rainwater into the storage pit. Concrete staircases, on all four sides, have been built to help commuters reach the Meenambakkam railway station easily. Each staircase has 29 steps.
Once it is inaugurated, the subway is certain to bring cheer to thousands of residents in several residential colonies of Alandur municipality. It is expected to reduce the distance to the GST Road by two km compared to the existing route where residents had to go via the subway in Pazhavanthangal. The subway in Meenambakkam will also make it easy for buses of the Nanganallur bus depot to reach Keelkattalai faster along Medavakkam Main Road instead of through the existing route through the Pazhalavanthangal subway. “Southern Railway had completed its part of the project at a cost of Rs 3 crore five years ago. But acquiring 9,300 sq m of defence ministry land on either side of the railline delayed the project. Two years ago, residents of Bhaktavatsalam (BV) Nagar in Alandur threatened to launch a series of protests, including blockades on GST Road, if the subway was not completed soon,” said Alandur 25th ward councillor E Ulaganathan.

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Arul Murugan

January 1st, 2010, 07:37 AM

Man, how long they keep proposing or preparing a DPR.... traffic is increaing evryday and its high time they start all the proposed flyovers... atleast in an yr's time.. Here goes the top priorities :
1.Vadapalani junction
2.Madhya kalaish
3.Thiruvanmiyur-L.B.Rd
4.Porur flyover
5.CMBT junction(DPR under way right??)
6. chetpet - harrington rd junction
7. Luz junction(guess it was proposed in 2008)
8.Thirumangalam - Mogappair Junction

then the elevated rds in mount rd and poonamale high rd..

Adding to above list the flyovers at Nandhanam is also important on Anna Salai

PH road is getting under ground metro from Central to Koyameduand Port expressway almost going to run parallel from Koyamedu to War memorial, so why do we need more concrete elevated road structures on PH road?

Leo_r

January 1st, 2010, 08:37 AM

^^
Facilities for a Signal free junctions are welcome. Simple mini flyovers don't ease traffic all around. E,g GN Road fly over-Traffic pile up at Nair Road junction and at Kannadasan statue junction remain as they were. Quick fix solutions are a waste.

RajBang

January 1st, 2010, 10:14 AM

Today in TOI they have told that the work on Port-madhuravoyal has started last month. is it true.. is there any work going on in PH road.???:nuts:

ceeznic pirate

January 1st, 2010, 11:55 AM

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Arul Murugan

January 5th, 2010, 02:35 PM

Perambur flyover to be opened by next month

http://epaper.mmnews.in/512010/epaperimages/512010/512010-md-hr-3/11331921_1.jpg

Malaimalar

Bless

January 6th, 2010, 06:55 AM

Perambur flyover to be opened by next month

http://epaper.mmnews.in/512010/epaperimages/512010/512010-md-hr-3/11331921_1.jpg

Malaimalar

I didn't get the intention of the second paragraph

"தி. மு. க ஆட்சி காலத்தில் பெரம்பூர் மேம்பலதிற்கு அடிக்கல் நாட்டப்பட்டு பணிகள் தொடங்கப்பட்டது (*பட்டன*?) அடுத்து வந்த அ. தி. மு. க இந்த பணியை தொடர்ந்து மேற்கொள்ளவில்லை."

It is politically correct statement; but is intention of this kind of "selected wording" is to confuse/mislead people.

Sorry for picking politics; I had posted details earlier about the reason for abandoning perempur flyover.

Arul Murugan

January 6th, 2010, 08:16 AM

^^

Agree bless. We cannot expect a very good analysis on projects from media, Atleast we can be happy that they are updating us through some pictures.

Just see today in one of the paper wrote Namakkal-Chennai express will be introduced soon. Actually there is no station and no tracks laid so far in Namakkal, but that media is just a mouth piece. Many media acts like that. So to fill up the pages they need some masala news.

Bless

January 6th, 2010, 10:08 AM

Bless

January 6th, 2010, 10:14 AM

I'll continue this in TN Chai bar. I feel to continue it, not for argue with you but to give better picture to every one.

TN Chai Bar closed?? I just wanted to discuss about the media & its responsibility. I hope I cannot talk about it now. This is just an update.

Arul Murugan

January 6th, 2010, 11:19 AM

^^

Already informed mods. Hope it will be back by tomo.

Abhishek901

January 6th, 2010, 11:54 AM

:lol::lol::lol::lol:Nice joke.

Just visit Delhi flyover forums. That is a real city of flyovers. Just because there is a sudden sprout of two laned flyovers here and there in the city doesn't mean that it has so much flyovers. Delhi's ITO flyover, ISBT interchange, Dhaula Kuan interchange, AIIMS interchange are much traffic friendly and older than the flyovers in Chennai. AFAIK there are more than 30 flyovers and interchanges in Delhi and all are 4laned not like the ones in Chennai. Clover leaf interchanges came to 6 or 7 places around the country before they came to Chennai. So please browse through other city forums before you make the comment.

Delhi has about 100 flyovers and about 25 more in suburbs. Most of them are 6 lane and some are 8 lane. 4 lane flyovers are very few in number. I had counted the number of interchanges in Delhi just a few days back in this (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=49319611&postcount=1409) post. Delhi has about 20 interchanges. Apart from that there are many other flyovers with additional loops and some 3 level junctions (flyover + underpass).

30 is a small number for a large city. I hope that Chennai will have more than 30 flyovers. For example, Mumbai and suburbs have around 60 flyovers, Kolkata has 25 and Bangalore has about 50. You can see the lists in my signature. From this you can judge that Chennai will also have decent count.

What would be the approximate number of flyovers here BTW? I am planning to make a map of Chennai's flyovers using google earth as I did for 4 other cities but that's a very time consuming process and I might not have enough time for next 1 month. So, I will do this after a month or so. Then we can have a database of flyovers and we can have exact count. And I will need help of the local forumers for this job as I don't know anything about the city :)

I don't know which is the first clover leaf flyover in India but there is a clover leaf like interchange at Kashmere Gate in Delhi, which was built before Asian games 1982. So that's quite earlier than Hebbal. That was the first interchange of Delhi, but not sure whether it is the first one in India or not.

MyCity123

January 6th, 2010, 02:11 PM

Shan_Sara

January 6th, 2010, 02:39 PM

Arul Murugan

January 6th, 2010, 02:49 PM

^^

Bridges+Flyover+Subway put-together Chennai will overcome Bangalore because of railway infra and great "nathis" flowing city.

Shan_Sara

January 6th, 2010, 03:03 PM

^^

Bridges+Flyover+Subway put-together Chennai will overcome Bangalore because of railway infra and great "nathis" flowing city.

^^
Parametres doesn't matter .Flyovers,Bridges,Subways on the whole .Banglore doesnt have a internal railway network ,since the subrban railways are developed only for the metors decades ago, and hence the number of bridges ,subways can be only of road intersecrtions.. Can anyone list the 50 flyovers of Banglore...

ceeznic pirate

January 6th, 2010, 03:35 PM

^^ Can anyone list the 50 flyovers of Banglore...

The link is already there in the Abhishek post's signature

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=49004419&postcount=50

In the list,

out of 50, 15 are under construction and of the remaining 35, 11 are underpases.

Shan_Sara

January 6th, 2010, 03:40 PM

The link is already there in the Abhishek post's signature

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=49004419&postcount=50

In the list,

out of 50, 15 are under construction and of the remaining 35, 11 are underpases.

Thanks dude

dis.agree

January 6th, 2010, 05:13 PM

Delhi has about 100 flyovers and about 25 more in suburbs. Most of them are 6 lane and some are 8 lane. 4 lane flyovers are very few in number. I had counted the number of interchanges in Delhi just a few days back in this (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=49319611&postcount=1409) post. Delhi has about 20 interchanges. Apart from that there are many other flyovers with additional loops and some 3 level junctions (flyover + underpass).

30 is a small number for a large city. I hope that Chennai will have more than 30 flyovers. For example, Mumbai and suburbs have around 60 flyovers, Kolkata has 25 and Bangalore has about 50. You can see the lists in my signature. From this you can judge that Chennai will also have decent count.

What would be the approximate number of flyovers here BTW? I am planning to make a map of Chennai's flyovers using google earth as I did for 4 other cities but that's a very time consuming process and I might not have enough time for next 1 month. So, I will do this after a month or so. Then we can have a database of flyovers and we can have exact count. And I will need help of the local forumers for this job as I don't know anything about the city :)

present city limits of chennai is only 170 sq.km. so that does not make it a large city. and it is within this city limit that chennai has about 30 flyovers, built/planned. to that extent chennai i think has more flyovers than any other core city, certainly more than bangalore and i think even mumbai. mumbai has many bridges within city limits but most of them are rob's. don't know about delhi.

most bangalore flyovers are along orr. chennai's bypass is not really comparable to bangalore orr since it does not carry city traffic as much but in terms of distance from city centre it would be comparable. this alone probably has 10 flyovers under construction with service roads being built all along this expressway that connect to roads to many small western suburbs. currently it is a super long elevated road with just one entry & exit for nearly 30 km and another 15 km is nearing completion. since you have included nice road as well in bangalore, then we should include ponamallee in west, tambaram in south west & sholing in south. this is likely new chennai city limits as per reports and even that may only be about 430 sq.km smaller than present city limits of bangalore and area enclosed by nice road. if we include all this region of chennai that would be within orr under construction in chennai, i am sure there would be well in excess of 100 flyovers operational or under construction.

one more thing: you have included 2 flyovers each for dairy circle & bannerghatta circle. does it mean a full clover flyover would be the equivalent of 4 flyovers?

you did an amazing job making bangalore map. i am sure you would find chennai forumers far more knowledgeable about their city developments and more enthusiastic with responses.

Abhishek901

January 6th, 2010, 06:07 PM

Great Work Abhishek :bow::bow:

Thanks :)

Do Banglore have 50 flyover ,that is more than Chennai and Kolkatta:nuts::nuts: . If so can u list them with map???

You can see that in the links of all maps in my signature.

^^

Bridges+Flyover+Subway put-together Chennai will overcome Bangalore because of railway infra and great "nathis" flowing city.

^^
Parametres doesn't matter .Flyovers,Bridges,Subways on the whole .Banglore doesnt have a internal railway network ,since the subrban railways are developed only for the metors decades ago, and hence the number of bridges ,subways can be only of road intersecrtions.. Can anyone list the 50 flyovers of Banglore...

I have not included Rail Over/Under Bridges (ROBs/RUBs) in any of the maps. These maps are strictly for grade separators (i.e, flyovers and underpasses). The logic of not including ROBs is that they are meant to overcome a physical barrier (that is, a railway line), and do not help in easing traffic at road crossings. Flyovers/underpasses are the symbol of a city's or a country's road infrastructure. You can find ROBs in small towns as well but you will find flyovers/underpasses in larger cities only.

present city limits of chennai is only 170 sq.km. so that does not make it a large city. and it is within this city limit that chennai has about 30 flyovers, built/planned. to that extent chennai i think has more flyovers than any other core city, certainly more than bangalore and i think even mumbai. mumbai has many bridges within city limits but most of them are rob's. don't know about delhi.

As I said, I haven't included ROBs. The figure of 100 for Delhi is for the core city but the core city itself is very large at 1483 sq km. So, you may be right in saying that Chennai has a higher "flyover density" than other cities.

most bangalore flyovers are along orr. chennai's bypass is not really comparable to bangalore orr since it does not carry city traffic as much but in terms of distance from city centre it would be comparable.

If the roads you mentioned like the bypass are in the Chennai metropolitan area, then I will surely include them. The map is not restricted to the core city, I'll included all suburbs, as I have done with other cases.

It would be a fair game :)

one more thing: you have included 2 flyovers each for dairy circle & bannerghatta circle. does it mean a full clover flyover would be the equivalent of 4 flyovers?

I have counted them as 2 different entities because they are separate entities (a flyover and an underpass) built independently of each other and also they function independently. But a clover flyover or a similar flyover is an interlinked interchange. Whole of the structure is a single and interlinked super structure. That's why it is counted as one, but I always mention interchange word along with its name so as to clarify all doubts.

you did an amazing job making bangalore map. i am sure you would find chennai forumers far more knowledgeable about their city developments and more enthusiastic with responses.

Thanks :). I also think it will be easier to make Chennai map. I knew only Delhi, being its resident but for other cities I had to rely heavily on google earth and local forumers' knowledge. There were not many local forumers there and it was difficult to ensure that all flyovers have been covered. I had to update Bangalore's map 4 times in 2-3 weeks as I slowly gained more inputs. Since Chennai sub-forum has many forumers, I believe it will be easier task this time.

And I am relying specifically on you. You had provided great inputs for Bangalore map :cheers:.

ChennaiIndian

January 7th, 2010, 01:17 AM

^^ We must include all structures within Chennai's CMDA area and not just those within the corporation limit. This is how the flyover maps of other cities are.

Arul Murugan

January 7th, 2010, 02:05 AM

Meenambakkam subway opened for public

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/01/07/20100107a_002101003.jpg

Dinakaran

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=TOICH/2010/01/07/2/Img/Pc0020700.jpg

TOI

Arul Murugan

January 7th, 2010, 02:19 AM

Thanks :)

I have not included Rail Over/Under Bridges (ROBs/RUBs) in any of the maps. These maps are strictly for grade separators (i.e, flyovers and underpasses). The logic of not including ROBs is that they are meant to overcome a physical barrier (that is, a railway line), and do not help in easing traffic at road crossings. Flyovers/underpasses are the symbol of a city's or a country's road infrastructure. You can find ROBs in small towns as well but you will find flyovers/underpasses in larger cities only.

Your claim for smaller cities are perfect. They help in just crossing the railway line. But many of flyovers/subways in Chennai city or suburban are below model. The main arterial road traffic flow is maintained and the service road or other roads are separated from main flow traffic. So it should be also called as grade separator. As it separates the traffic.

http://i46.tinypic.com/2ch3ipz.jpg

robertashok

January 7th, 2010, 03:59 AM

Meenambakkam subway opened for public

atleast does this have faciltity for outflow of water then there is rain, if not why the hell are the so called engineers there constructing it getting tons of Rs.

die4chennai

January 7th, 2010, 05:28 AM

I have not included Rail Over/Under Bridges (ROBs/RUBs) in any of the maps. These maps are strictly for grade separators (i.e, flyovers and underpasses). The logic of not including ROBs is that they are meant to overcome a physical barrier (that is, a railway line), and do not help in easing traffic at road crossings. Flyovers/underpasses are the symbol of a city's or a country's road infrastructure. You can find ROBs in small towns as well but you will find flyovers/underpasses in larger cities only.

The ROBs that u find in smaller towns are different from what exists here in chennai. ROBs/RUBs here facilitates "Local Suburban lines"(not just any physical thing like river) which carry a major chunk of the commuting population. Ultimately both flyovers and ROBs in Chennai achieves one common goal only.
We ve managed to get efficient and extensive suburban train service and hence the need to build so many RUB/ROBs. If this s not the case the GOVT cud have built so many flyovers with the funding they had got for ROBs. So if we count barring ROBs/RUBs,even if chennai leads, we might not get the actual picture of what the city has managed to achieve in terms of road infrastructure.

die4chennai

January 7th, 2010, 05:35 AM

Having said that i completely understand your intention of putting in only flyovers & underpasses and u hav done an excellent excellent job so far. I will contribute in all possible ways

Abhishek901

January 7th, 2010, 07:09 AM

^^ We must include all structures within Chennai's CMDA area and not just those within the corporation limit. This is how the flyover maps of other cities are.

Yeah.

Your claim for smaller cities are perfect. They help in just crossing the railway line. But many of flyovers/subways in Chennai city or suburban are below model. The main arterial road traffic flow is maintained and the service road or other roads are separated from main flow traffic. So it should be also called as grade separator. As it separates the traffic.

http://i46.tinypic.com/2ch3ipz.jpg

I got your first diagram but I am not clear with the second one.

Ok I explain it with a practical example. Below are 2 cases of ROBs. Both are from Delhi.

Case 1

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/894/43131586.png

If you see this google earth image, you can see that the ROB also passes over a road on the south side and also there is a U-turn north of the railway tracks. You can see yourself that the road is actually very small (in fact it is a street) and authorities will never build a flyover for crossing such a street, otherwise there would be 1000s of flyovers in every city. Here it is clear that the purpose of ROB was to navigate railway tracks only. Hence it should be counted as an ROB and not a flyover.

Case 2

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6928/41051068.png

Here you can see that the ROB passes over a road (north) as well a rail line (south) like in Case 1. Here also, the road is not that big one but you can see that the ROB has been made longer than required to accommodate this road as well. The ROB could have also been made after crossing the road as there is a fair gap between the road and the rail line but authorities chose to build much longer ROB to accommodate this road. Hence this qualifies for flyover as well as ROB.

The ROBs that u find in smaller towns are different from what exists here in chennai. ROBs/RUBs here facilitates "Local Suburban lines"(not just any physical thing like river) which carry a major chunk of the commuting population. Ultimately both flyovers and ROBs in Chennai achieves one common goal only.

For a road vehicle, a railway line is not different from a river. Both are obstacles. If you are building an ROB over a railway line, then what is the gain for the road commuter. Had the rail line not been there, then also he would have zipped passed through the road. However, a road crossing (traffic light) is not an obstacle as it only has intersection of roads which the vehicles can use. If you build something here, you are giving an extra grade for vehicles to navigate the crossing, hence it is a flyover. In case of ROB grade remains only 1 as you give the commuters an elevated grade but rob them of the surface grade (and give that to railway). I hope I am able to clear the confusion.

We ve managed to get efficient and extensive suburban train service and hence the need to build so many RUB/ROBs. If this s not the case the GOVT cud have built so many flyovers with the funding they had got for ROBs. So if we count barring ROBs/RUBs,even if chennai leads, we might not get the actual picture of what the city has managed to achieve in terms of road infrastructure.

Govt builds ROBs and flyovers not to showcase them or to become city of flyovers or to breaks records, etc. Remember we are not in China :). If the govt has built ROBs instead of flyovers, then it would have given it some thought before doing this. Govt will not start building flyovers instead of ROBs just to showcase Chennai. And in that case, you might be zipping past a small street over a flyover but you would be waiting at manned railway crossing even on the busiest roads. Now imagine the situation :lol:.

Well, there are many other cities with more railway lines and ROBs than Chennai. For example, Delhi alone has about 200-250 km of railway lines in the core city itself. So, you can imagine the number of ROBs. And I haven't included them. Now you can feel that if I don't include ROBs here, I won't be doing injustice with Chennai as I have done same thing with every other city :).

ferrari_fan

January 7th, 2010, 07:29 AM

I'm a little jobless today so I'll help to kickstart Abhishek's flyover mapping exercise for Chennai with a list of all the flyovers I could think of..

Flyovers along the Grand Southern Trunk Road (NH45) - ordered from South to North..

1) Tambaram Chennai Bypass interchange

2) Tambaram flyover+underpass (flyover u/c, underpass complete)

3) Chromepet flyover

4) Pallavaram flyover (u/c)

5) Airport flyover

6) Kathipara interchange

Flyovers along the Chennai Bypass (NH45 to NH4 to NH205 to NH5) - ordered from South to North..

1) Tambaram Chennai Bypass interchange (listed earlier)

2) Entirely grade-separated and access-controlled from Tambaram to Maduravoyal, but no flyovers or interchanges along this stretch

3) Mauravoyal interchange (u/c)

4) 2 flyovers between Maduravoyal and Ambattur

5) Ambattur elevated road (complete but not opened)

6) 3 flyovers between Ambattur and NH5 (u/c)

7) Trumpet interchange on NH5 (u/c)

Flyovers along the Poonamallee High Road/NH4 - ordered from West to East..

1) Poonamallee flyover

2) 2 flyovers between Poonamallee and Maduravoyal

3) Maduravoyal interchange (u/c) (listed earlier)

4) Koyambedu interchange (u/c)

5) 4-5 flyovers OR 1-2 elevated roads proposed, to come up during the next 2 years before Metro construction can begin along PH Road..

Flyovers along the Inner Ring Road - ordered from South to North..

1) Kathipara interchange (listed earlier)

2) Koyambedu interchange (listed earlier)

3) Padi interchange

4) Moolakadai flyover

Flyovers along Anna Salai - ordered from South to North..

1) Anna flyover interchange

2) 5-6 flyover OR 2 elevated roads proposed, to come up during the next 2 years before Metro construction can begin along Anna Salai..

Flyovers along Sardar Patel Road - ordered from West to East..

1) IIT flyover

2) Interchange proposed at Madhya Kailash junction

3) Adyar Signal flyover

Flyovers in the T. Nagar area

1) Panagal Park flyover

2) North Usman Road-Mahalingapuram flyover

3) G.N. Chetty Road flyover

Flyovers in other core city areas

1) Cenotaph Road flyover

2) Alwarpet TTK Road-CP Ramaswamy Road flyover

3) RK Salai Music Academy flyover

4) RK Salai-Royapettah High Road flyover

5) 2 flyovers on Peters Road

6) Egmore Pantheon Road flyover

7) Rajaji Salai road+rail underpass

Other Flyovers in the suburbs...

1) Velachery road+rail flyover

2) Pallikaranai flyover

3) Perambur road+rail flyover

I dare say I've missed a few - please add on to the list..

Cheers..

:)

ferrari_fan

January 7th, 2010, 07:35 AM

@ Abhishek,

This is the kind of flyover that Arul is referring to:

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/8052/18674496.jpg

We have several similar flyovers in Chennai since some of out arterial roads run parallel to our suburban rail lines, necessitating such crossings in a few places in the city..

However, they are not simply ROBs - their basic purpose is to enable signal-free traffic from the main road to the side road - it just so happens that a railway crossing also happens in the process..

While it is possible that we would not have had such interchanges at all if not for the railway crossing, the fact is that these flyovers do achieve more than just crossing the tracks..

:)

Abhishek901

January 7th, 2010, 07:42 AM

Thanks Ferrari for simplifying the job :cheers:

This design is quite unique ! It should be considered a flyover as the traffic can cross the arterial road as well along with the tracks.

Arul Murugan

January 7th, 2010, 08:08 AM

Yeah.

I got your first diagram but I am not clear with the second one.

Here is the example for two types

Harrington Subway and Chrompet rotary flyover in Chennai

http://i49.tinypic.com/1rclt0.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/vqgokz.jpg

Bless

January 7th, 2010, 08:12 AM

robertashok

January 7th, 2010, 08:20 AM

Hi Ferrari fan,
You might not be that jobless now, but can you update how many of the listed are in Chennai city limit? I could count only 15 out of 35 are in city limit.

As of now even Padi, kathipara flyovers are not with in the city limit.

I guess he has taken pincode into consideration.

:):)

ferrari_fan

January 7th, 2010, 08:26 AM

I'm not even clear exactly what the "city limits" are!! I just listed flyovers that I felt could be classified as being part of Chennai..

:)

dis.agree

January 7th, 2010, 08:43 AM

^^
few more:
built:
1. doveton - vepery flyover (purasaiwalkam road)
2. irr - nh5 junction at red hills (moolakadai is not along irr - it is along nh5 within city limits & madhavaram road).

proposed/under construction:
1. irr - tirumangalam jn (anna nagar west)
2. irr - koyambedu bus stand
3. irr - arcot road jn (vadapalani)
4. madhya kailash jn
5. thiruvanmiyur: lb road jn
6. velacheri: vijaya nagar jn (?)
7. orr (5-10 flyovers?)
8. oragadam jn
9. elevated coastal corridor: beach - adyar (?)
10. elevated roads along adyar river (?)
11. maduravoyal - koyambedu (along nh4)
12. koyambedu - chennai port elevated corridor (along cooum)
13. it corridor - srp tools junction (http://www.elcot.in/paperads.php?page=38)
14. it corridor - lifeline hospital
15. it corridor - karapakkam
16. it corridor - sholinganallur
17. it corridor - thiruvanmiyur (tidel park)

Abhishek901

January 7th, 2010, 08:43 AM

Here is the example for two types

Harrington Subway and Chrompet rotary flyover in Chennai

http://i49.tinypic.com/1rclt0.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/vqgokz.jpg

I agree with the second one but the first one cannot be called an underpass. It is an RUB only. You can imagine that govt would not have built an underpass there only for those 2 U-turns if there was no railway line.

Quoting a similar example from Delhi. You can see that this ROB is exactly similar to the RUB you posted (only difference being elevated vs underground). This ROB cannot be termed as a flyover because the very purpose of this is to cross railway tracks. The 2 U-turns are freebies at best :lol:.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1240/84069972.png

Hi Ferrari fan,
You might not be that jobless now, but can you update how many of the listed are in Chennai city limit? I could count only 15 out of 35 are in city limit.

As of now even Padi, kathipara flyovers are not with in the city limit.

Even if these flyovers are not in the city limits, their very existence is because of Chennai and its traffic. If Chennai wasn't there, these suburbs alone would not have generated enough traffic to require a flyover. The suburbs are there only because of Chennai's extensions outside its limits. And God knows when authorities decide to extend Chennai's limits to engulf these areas. That's how Greater Mumbai and Greater Bangalore were formed.

dis.agree

January 7th, 2010, 08:51 AM

few more proposed
1. poonamalle road - nelson manikam road
2. poonamalle road - aminjikarai (possibly a longer elevated road)
& a few more along poonamalle road once metro alignment is finalized.
3. porur junction

dis.agree

January 7th, 2010, 09:07 AM

chennai bypass:
shouldn't we call it a flyover above arcot road & many other roads intersecting it? service lane has been built/is under construction parallel to bypass using which bypass can be accessed/exited at many of these places. in anycase, it technically separates two roads even if some roads are not directly accessible.

north - south
1. arcot road
2. gerugambakkam (sh113)
3. pammal road
4. tiruneermalai road
5. darkas road
6. sh110

Bless

January 7th, 2010, 09:26 AM

Even if these flyovers are not in the city limits, their very existence is because of Chennai and its traffic. If Chennai wasn't there, these suburbs alone would not have generated enough traffic to require a flyover. The suburbs are there only because of Chennai's extensions outside its limits. And God knows when authorities decide to extend Chennai's limits to engulf these areas. That's how Greater Mumbai and Greater Bangalore were formed.

I better preferred you are consistent with your previous posts.

Delhi has about 100 flyovers and about 25 more in suburbs. Most of them are 6 lane and some are 8 lane. 4 lane flyovers are very few in number. I had counted the number of interchanges in Delhi just a few days back in this (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=49319611&postcount=1409) post. Delhi has about 20 interchanges. Apart from that there are many other flyovers with additional loops and some 3 level junctions (flyover + underpass).

30 is a small number for a large city. I hope that Chennai will have more than 30 flyovers. For example, Mumbai and suburbs have around 60 flyovers, Kolkata has 25 and Bangalore has about 50. You can see the lists in my signature. From this you can judge that Chennai will also have decent count.

The figure of 100 for Delhi is for the core city but the core city itself is very large at 1483 sq km. So, you may be right in saying that Chennai has a higher "flyover density" than other cities.

Abhishek901

January 7th, 2010, 09:32 AM

I better preferred you are consistent with your previous posts.

Sorry, I couldn't get it :)

Bless

January 7th, 2010, 09:37 AM

Sorry, I couldn't get it :)

Sorry to ask this, does it mean you don't understand your post? :)

Sorry I thought I understand you were talking about the numbers (let it be flyover or area of city or "flyover density")

ceeznic pirate

January 7th, 2010, 09:39 AM

Hi Ferrari fan,
You might not be that jobless now, but can you update how many of the listed are in Chennai city limit? I could count only 15 out of 35 are in city limit.

As of now even Padi, kathipara flyovers are not with in the city limit.

All flyovers in the CMDA area and the suburbs should be included. After all they are built because of Chennai.

Kewl Batty

January 7th, 2010, 09:41 AM

Well, I don't think the Flyovers proposed along IT corridor is gonna happen anytime sooner! (I wish I'm wrong :|) So, no point in considering them in the list.

Velachery is a ROB for MRTS. :)... We have lotta bridges, ROBs and RUBs than flyovers in general. These don't come under the banner "Flyover".

^^
few more:
built:
1. doveton - vepery flyover (purasaiwalkam road)
2. irr - nh5 junction at red hills (moolakadai is not along irr - it is along nh5 within city limits & madhavaram road).

proposed/under construction:
1. irr - tirumangalam jn (anna nagar west)
2. irr - koyambedu bus stand
3. irr - arcot road jn (vadapalani)
4. madhya kailash jn
5. thiruvanmiyur: lb road jn
6. velacheri: vijaya nagar jn (?)
7. orr (5-10 flyovers?)
8. oragadam jn
9. elevated coastal corridor: beach - adyar (?)
10. elevated roads along adyar river (?)
11. maduravoyal - koyambedu (along nh4)
12. koyambedu - chennai port elevated corridor (along cooum)
13. it corridor - srp tools junction (http://www.elcot.in/paperads.php?page=38)
14. it corridor - lifeline hospital
15. it corridor - karapakkam
16. it corridor - sholinganallur
17. it corridor - thiruvanmiyur (tidel park)

Bless

January 7th, 2010, 09:44 AM

All flyovers in the CMDA area and the suburbs should be included. After all they are built because of Chennai.

^^ Agreed, now the question is not that,

Comparing two real numbers (I mean a number not like a + ib) make sense only when its defined well.
If one don't define "area" then "flyover density" doesn't make sense to compare.

ceeznic pirate

January 7th, 2010, 09:56 AM

^^
^^ Agreed, now the question is not that,

Comparing two real numbers (I mean a number not like a + ib) make sense only when its defined well.
If one don't define "area" then "flyover density" doesn't make sense to compare.

Consider CMDA area as Chennai's "core city" area and then compare it with other cities.

Abhishek's idea is to develop a map of Chennai's flyovers and it will be good if we stick to the point and help him get us the map fast by adding more to ferrari_fan's list.

PlaneMad

January 7th, 2010, 10:05 AM

I'm not even clear exactly what the "city limits" are!! I just listed flyovers that I felt could be classified as being part of Chennai..

:)
if youre really interested, you can see the corporation limits on osm (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=13.10186&mlon=80.19441&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF)(updated with cmda data). padi is just within the boundary

die4chennai

January 7th, 2010, 10:09 AM

I dont understand the proposed thing here... Porur flyover for which tender has been floated can be called proposed; do Flyovers along PH road where nothing has been told sustantially yet come under proposed flyovers list?
In that case can we call would-be flyovers supposed to come at burkit rd junction, Chetpet signal(McNicholas rd-Spurtank rd jn), anna nagar roundtana as proposed?

ferrari_fan

January 7th, 2010, 10:09 AM

Kewl Batty

January 7th, 2010, 10:20 AM

IRR Southern arm doesn't cross the bridge. Right? It juzz starts right under the bridge. :D

The velachery thingy was built considering the MRTS extension as well as Inner Ring Road extension. Its quite ambiguous. Can't say whether it is truly ROB or flyover.

^^ Actually, with the development of the IRR southern arm I think it is a flyover over the road, isn't it?

Mad 4 Madras

January 7th, 2010, 10:20 AM

Need not worry, I can see from Delhi-NCRs Flyover lists that Abishek has added all categories including which are planned. So we can add flyover/underpass which is u/c or planned.

Red = Flyover (completed or u/c)
Blue = Underpass (completed or u/c)
Black = Planned flyover/underpass

Shan_Sara

January 7th, 2010, 10:55 AM

Hi Ferrari fan,
You might not be that jobless now, but can you update how many of the listed are in Chennai city limit? I could count only 15 out of 35 are in city limit.

As of now even Padi, kathipara flyovers are not with in the city limit.

Yes..all the flyover listed above are in City limits since the City limit has been revamped and extended as of late which will be come into exiztence shortly.

Bless

January 7th, 2010, 11:18 AM

Yes..all the flyover listed above are in City limits since the City limit has been revamped and extended as of late which will be come into exiztence shortly.

come into exiztence shortly?
I'm talking about now.

Shan_Sara

January 7th, 2010, 11:20 AM

come into exiztence shortly?
I'm talking about now.

am also talking about now...NOW the decision is made and all set to reshuffle the administration and forming new bodies and administration.

Bless

January 7th, 2010, 11:20 AM

^^

Consider CMDA area as Chennai's "core city" area and then compare it with other cities.

Ok, but follow the same scale for others too.

Bless

January 7th, 2010, 11:26 AM

What inconsistency are you talking about? I didn't find anything wrong in the posts you quoted...

Can any one define what is core?
if any one goes by argument because of "chennai traffic" suburbs gets flyover then use the same scale to say 100 flyovers for delhi and not to say 30 flyovers in "core delhi."

Bless

January 7th, 2010, 11:26 AM

am also talking about now...NOW the decision is made and all set to reshuffle the administration and forming new bodies and administration.

2011 not 2010.

Abhishek901

January 7th, 2010, 11:58 AM

Sorry to ask this, does it mean you don't understand your post? :)

Sorry I thought I understand you were talking about the numbers (let it be flyover or area of city or "flyover density")

It seems that you haven't followed the discussion carefully :).

I am only talking about numbers. The flyover density remark was in reply to some other thing. Obviously I won't be calculating flyover densities

Ok, but follow the same scale for others too.

That's what I am doing. If you had seen the maps, you would have realised that I have included suburbs as well in all the cities. See my Delhi flyovers map. I have included Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad apart from Delhi itself. In Mumbai, I have included Navi Mumbai and Thane, and similarly for Kolkata and Bangalore.

Can any one define what is core?
if any one goes by argument because of "chennai traffic" suburbs gets flyover then use the same scale to say 100 flyovers for delhi and not to say 30 flyovers in "core delhi."

I am still not able to understand what you want to say. I said that Delhi's core area has 100 flyovers and suburbs have about 25, and I have listed each of them under proper headings - Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad. Now what is that you are still not able to grasp ?

calculus_ask

January 7th, 2010, 12:51 PM

I am bit more jobless than Ferrai_Fan,

Please keep in mind i dont care about city limits and size of the bridge or ROB or Subway or anything.. here is the extensive list...

Please edit the names if i am wrong or add to it.. i havent included the underconstruction or proposal (even GOD doesnt know completion date)

S.NO Flyovers
1 kathipara
2 gemini
3 padi
4 RK Salai
5 mylapore
6 near sathyam theatre
7 residency hotel
8 panagal park
9 kodampakam
10 adayar signal
11 iit-anna university
12 cenotaph road
13 alwarpet
14 airport
15 velachery
16 velachery radical ring
17 Egmore
18 Tambaram (Bye Pass)

Road over bridge
19 Egmore
20 Ega theatre (Chetpet)
21 Park town
22 parry's
23 Royapuram Port
24 port - parry's 1
25 mint junction
26 guindy
27 chrompet
28 kodampakam
29 Madhuvankarai Guindy
30 Kathivakkam
31 Basin Bridge
32 Ambatur railway station
33 bharath nagar
34 Ennore

Subways
35 RBI
36 Egmore
37 T-nagar
38 Araganathan
39 Duraisamy
40 jones
41 saidapet
42 loyola college
43 adampakam
44 Meenambakam
45 Kodg
46 Ganeshpuram
47 perambur
48 Intergral coach
49 IRR (After Villivakam)
50 St thomas mount RS
51 alandur subway
52 palavanthangal
53 darga road (pallavaram)
54 korukupet intersection

Adayar
55 guindy
56 saidapet
57 Kotturpuram Bridge
58 Adayar (Thiru. Vi. Ka)
59 Nadambakam
60 Jafferkhanpet (Ashok Nagar)

Coovum
61 Napier
62 Island Grounds
63 mount road
64 Egmore
65 chindaripet
66 puthupet
67 taj-spencers
68 orchid chemicals
69 choolaimedu
70 poonamalle road
71 anna nagar
72 naduvankalai
73 IRR - koyambedu
74 cholayil nagar
75 golden nagar
76 unknown 1

Buckinghum
77 near university
78 triplicane - presidency
79 behind university hostel
80 towards vivekanda illam
81 behind queen marys college
82 DIG
83 behind chennai citi centre
84 near luz
85 near mylapore station
86 after mylopore station
87 mandaveli
88 raja anamalaipuram
89 greenways road station
90 kasturibhai nagar
91 thiruvanmaiyur station
92 old lattice bridge
93 perunigkudi
94 thoraipakam
95 pillikaranai marsh bridge
96 sholinganalur junction

Otteri Nulla
97 Lotus Colony
98 Anna Nagar
99 Anna Nagar
100 Near kilpak sub station
101 Kilpak water works
102 Kipak vidhaya vidhalaya
103 Kilpak Windsor Palace
104 Corporation Dumping Yard
105 Old Valai Ma Nagar
106 Binny Mill Compond
107 Binny Mill Compond 1
108 Kannigapuram
109 Basin Bridge

:cheers:

Bless

January 7th, 2010, 12:53 PM

It seems that you haven't followed the discussion carefully :).

I am only talking about numbers. The flyover density remark was in reply to some other thing. Obviously I won't be calculating flyover densities

sorry about that, I got confused by number 30 came from other post to which you were replying. :)

Arul Murugan

January 7th, 2010, 01:15 PM

robertashok

January 7th, 2010, 01:29 PM

one subway near Pallavaram bus-stand [one good example how poorly we can maintain] and one ROB in Pallavaram it is in the same stage for the past 3 years.

win-win

January 8th, 2010, 03:12 AM

^^^^

Funny is your signature - Isn't internet a media and you shared your views through it? ;0) Or it is a medium ;0(

akhaura

January 8th, 2010, 07:26 AM

Hi,

I have been a close follower of the forum for the past couple of months. But this is the first time I am replying.

The list of flyover does not include the ones near Royapettah hospital and the one in Doveton.

calculus_ask

January 8th, 2010, 09:56 AM

:applause::applause:

ithukku peru infrastructure database servicenu sollikalam.

ஆருல் அன்னே, இப்படி சொல்லிடிஞ்க..
ஏதோ நம்ம நால்ல முடுஜ நல்ல காரியம்

used this website to transalate to tamil.. is there any good ones..
http://english-to-tamil-keyboard.appspot.com/

calculus_ask

January 8th, 2010, 10:27 AM

சென்னை மாநகராட்சி சார்பில் பெரம்பூர் மேம்பாலம் கட்டும் பணி வேகமாக நடந்து வருகிறது. மேம்பாலம் கட்டும் பணியின் ஒரு பகுதியாக, ரயில்வே பகுதியில் மேல்தளம் அமைக்கும் பணி நடந்து வருகிறது.
இதுதவிர, வாகன போக்குவரத்து சீராக அமைய டாங்பன்ட் சாலையும், பெரம்பூர் நெடுஞ்சாலையும் இணைத்து ஒரு புதிய இணைப்புச் சாலையும், பாலத்தின் தெற்கு பகுதியான ஜமாலியா பகுதியில் ஒரு புதிய சாலை அமைக்கும் பணி, அணுகுச் சாலைகளை சீரமைக்கும் பணி ஆகியவையும் நடந்து வருகிறது. மேலும், மேம்பாலத்தின் தெற்கு பகுதியில் ரூ.69 லட்சத்தில் பூங்கா அமைக்கும் பணி மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டு வருகிறது. பூங்காவை சுற்றிலும் சுற்றுச்சுவர் அமைக்கும் பணி ரூ.52 லட்சத்திலும், மழைநீர் வடிகால்வாய் கட்டும் பணி ரூ.42 லட்சத்திலும் நடக்கிறது.
ரூ.87 லட்சம் செலவில் மேம்பாலத்தில் மின் விளக்குகள் அமைக்கப்படுகிறது. ஒட்டுமொத்தமாக ரூ.53 கோடியே 70 லட்சம் செலவில் கட்டப்பட்டு வரும் மேம்பால பணிகளை, தமிழக அரசின் தலைமைச் செயலாளர் கே.எஸ்.ஸ்ரீபதி நேற்று நேரில் சென்று ஆய்வு செய்தார்.
அப்போது, மாநகராட்சி ஆணையர் ராஜேஷ்லக்கானி, தற்போது நடக்கும் பணிகள் குறித்து தலைமைச் செயலாளரிடம் விளக்கினார்.

Source:http://www.dinakaran.com/chennaidetail.aspx?id=3547

Arul Murugan

January 8th, 2010, 12:42 PM

ஆருல் அன்னே, இப்படி சொல்லிடிஞ்க..
ஏதோ நம்ம நால்ல முடுஜ நல்ல காரியம்

used this website to transalate to tamil.. is there any good ones..
http://english-to-tamil-keyboard.appspot.com/

தமிழில் பதிவு செய்ய இதை யுஸ் பண்ணுங்க

http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic/Tamil

அருள், ஆருல் ஆயிடிச்சு. :lol:

calculus_ask

January 8th, 2010, 12:54 PM

தமிழில் பதிவு செய்ய இதை யுஸ் பண்ணுங்க

http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic/Tamil

அருள், ஆருல் ஆயிடிச்சு. :lol:

அருள், :lol:

தமிழ் எழுத கொஞ்சம் தெரியும்.. படிக்கும் போதே தமிழ்ல் பைல்..

இப்போ அருள் கரெக்டா.. இன்னிமே ஸ்பெல்லிங் மிச்டகே இல்லம்மே போஸ்ட் பண்ண ட்ரை பண்றேன்

Arul Murugan

January 8th, 2010, 01:44 PM

அருள், :lol:

தமிழ் எழுத கொஞ்சம் தெரியும்.. படிக்கும் போதே தமிழ்ல் பைல்..

இப்போ அருள் கரெக்டா.. இன்னிமே ஸ்பெல்லிங் மிச்டகே இல்லம்மே போஸ்ட் பண்ண ட்ரை பண்றேன்

நானும் உங்க கட்சி தான், தமிழ ஆறாம் வகுப்பு வரை பெயில் மார்க் தான் வாங்குவேன்! :lol::lol: இன்டர்நெட் தான் இப்போ தமிழ் பத்தி நிறைய தெரிஞ்சுக்க தூண்டுது.

Let us put the thread on track.

v4Chennai

January 9th, 2010, 03:21 AM

Killer stretch to get flyover, subway
Distance Between Anna Arch And Nelson Manickam Road-Poonamalee High Road To Be Made Signal-Free
Jeeva | TNN

Chennai: The three-km congested stretch from Ega theatre to Anna Arch on Poonamallee High Road, the top ‘killer stretch’ in the city (17 people died here in accidents last year) according to a recent survey conducted by the Chennai city traffic police, could see free-flowing traffic in the months ahead. The state highways department has decided to make the stretch between the Anna Arch and the Nelson Manickam Road-Poonamalee High Road intersection free of signals by constructing a flyover as well as a vehicular subway.
According to official sources, the four-lane flyover will be built as two independent two-lane Lshaped structures (see diagram). One structure will begin on Poonamallee High Road near Anna Arch and end on Nelson Manickam Road for vehicles moving towards NM Road from Anna Nagar III Avenue and from Koyambedu. The second structure will begin on Poonamallee High Road near NM Road and end in front of the Government Siddha Hospital in Anna Nagar III Avenue.
The Rs 80-crore project also includes a vehicular subway at Anna Arch for vehicles coming from Anna Nagar III Avenue and heading towards Koyambedu.
“Preparation of project reports has been completed and they are now being scrutinised. We hope the department will call for tenders next month,’’ a senior official at the secretariat told The Times Of India.
The proposed project envisages vehicles from NM Road moving towards Chennai Central not being allowed a right turn at the NM Road-Poonamallee High Road intersection. The vehicles will have to take a left turn at the intersection to reach Anna Nagar III Avenue, using the flyover and moving through a loop that would be laid opposite the Siddha Hospital; the vehicles will then join Poonamallee High Road and proceed straight beneath the flyover towards Chennai-Central.
Although the overall objective of the project is to make the area signal-free, the traffic signal at NSK Nagar on Poonamallee High Road, 200 metres from Anna Arch, will remain.
The project gains significance as Poonamallee High Road is next only to Anna Salai in terms of vehicular traffic density. Presently, about 1.30 lakh vehicles pass through Poonamallee High Road every day.
Already, the highways department is preparing the ‘terms of reference’ detailing the options available to reduce congestion on another six-km stretch on Poonamallee High Road - from Chennai Central to Pulla Reddy Avenue in Aminjikarai - that has 15 traffic junctions close to one another. The government is considering the option of building flyovers to connect two or three signal points or constructing one or two long, elevated highways covering the distance.
jeeva.pugazvendan@timesgroup.com
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=TOICH/2010/01/09/5/Img/Pc0051100.jpg

Source: http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOICH/2010/01/09&PageLabel=5&EntityId=Ar00500&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T

Let us hope this flyover becomes a relief and not a pain like the Koyembadu flyover which has beeeennnnnn built for years and years and years..........:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

Arul Murugan

January 9th, 2010, 04:53 AM

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=TOICH/2010/01/09/5/Img/Pc0051100.jpg

Good that they are going for 2 lanes(hope the standard 2lanes not the IT corridor lane standard). Seeing TOI picture, sharpe 90 deg bend was scary. But I hope it will be like below!

http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Flyover2.JPG

And this pillar design are really good. May be RMKV, Chennai Silks, Nalli etc., can to do this stuff in T.nagar Usman road flyover. :nuts:

http://www.cynthia.boxerman.co.uk/images/Pretty%20flyover%20supports.JPG

venkatm

January 9th, 2010, 07:59 AM

u are violating the fundamental right of "moolam" doctor, "PAN CARD", "Java C++", "earn 10000 rs/month working from home" from their right to stick posters if pillars are made as bove.

darkprinz

January 9th, 2010, 10:01 AM

^^ RoFTLOL:rofl:

ferrari_fan

January 9th, 2010, 01:20 PM

:lol: :lol:

robertashok

January 9th, 2010, 02:36 PM

http://www.cynthia.boxerman.co.uk/images/Pretty%20flyover%20supports.JPG

Where is this picture taken from, the site says uk but looks more like indianised

ezhilan81

January 9th, 2010, 04:14 PM

ChennaiIndian

January 10th, 2010, 04:18 PM

Killer stretch to get flyover, subway
Distance Between Anna Arch And Nelson Manickam Road-Poonamalee High Road To Be Made Signal-Free
Jeeva | TNN

...

This flyover is very complex with 4 separate structures forming one and to me it sounds like 4 times the construction time of a single structure (totally 4 x 4 = 16 years) :lol: based on our experience with other flyovers. Land acquisition is going to take a heavy toll on the construction time :ohno:

Arasu

January 10th, 2010, 06:06 PM

Its high time they first did the basics rt on this stretch...remove encroachments on PH rd from Tolgate bus stop to Aminjikarai Bridge...widen the narrow stretch near Tolgate till Aminjikarai Signal where only 1 and half lanes are usable, thanks to bus stop near the signal and poor traffic sense of public...make the Aminjikarai bridge into 6 lanes. No point building flyovers if these are not taken care of first

This is due to the narrow vision of our planners.

Even I was aghast, long time ago when I didn't have much knowledge, looking at how abruptly the road narrowed at Toll gate and also at Vadapalani bus depot which used to be the city limit years ago.

Beyond toll gate and towards Koyembedu was almost a single lane road! This is how our planners think. Today we are presented with these problems.

nandan_ks

January 11th, 2010, 05:53 AM

Where is this picture taken from, the site says uk but looks more like indianised

It has to be from somewhere in SouthEast Asia.

v4Chennai

January 11th, 2010, 07:11 AM

http://epaper.dinamalar.com/DM/DINAMALAR/2010/01/11/photographs/015/11_01_2010_015_002_001.jpg
:bash::bash::bash::bash::bash::bash::bash::bash:
Location : Crompet Mit bridge
Source : http://epaper.dinamalar.com/DM/DINAMALAR/2010/01/11/photographs/015/11_01_2010_015_002_001.jpg

Arul Murugan

January 11th, 2010, 07:14 AM

^^

They are migrants from IT corridor to Chrompet flyover. :lol::lol:

venkatm

January 11th, 2010, 07:41 AM

another cause of accidents is the steel barricades put up haphazardly by our esteemed police!!

robertashok

January 11th, 2010, 01:35 PM

another cause of accidents is the steel barricades put up haphazardly by our esteemed police!!

I have never heard of accidents due to this. it is reduce the speed

saurabh85

January 11th, 2010, 06:34 PM

I have never heard of accidents due to this. it is reduce the speed

Well it defintely reduces the speed because a number of drivers keep bumping into them.

nsantha2

January 11th, 2010, 06:59 PM

another cause of accidents is the steel barricades put up haphazardly by our esteemed police!!

I think they'd be more effective they were lit up or reflective, so that people know what's in front of them. Still, the possibility of running into a barricade should help in reducing speeds.

ferrari_fan

January 12th, 2010, 08:41 AM

I have never heard of accidents due to this. it is reduce the speed

I've seen a couple of very scary accidents happen because of these barricades..

On OMR in front of Tidel Park there was one on the fastest lane.. A car saw the barricade suddenly and swerved to the left.. A biker behind him didn't have enough time to react and ended up skidding, falling down and sliding along the road straight into the barricade..

Saw this happen right next to our car - luckily the bike didn't skid sideways or he would have come under our wheels..

The biker seemed ok after the accident, but it could have easily been so much worse..

madhan

January 13th, 2010, 08:47 AM

ramvaradan

January 13th, 2010, 01:58 PM

^^ similar thing happens on the road leading to Raj Bhavan from Anna salai.
Right in the middle of the road they have placed steel barricade perpendicular to the flow of the traffic. Bikers following big vehicles try to overtake them at that point and are suddenly confronted by the barricade. They tend to swerve and skid in there. With the volume and speed of the traffic on that road, the bikers have very little time to react.. the police definitely have to do something about this..

The steel barricades are too rudimentary that maybe OK for directing flow in some VIP events when the traffic is assured to be slow ahead. But our knuckleheads traffic-admin-police have no sense of appropriate use and have been using it as its a qucik-n-easy solution, from their perspective. I've seen a couple of my US colleagues scoff at this, after their visit to Chennai. Definitely earns city a bad name, apart from several other things ofcourse.

Fusionist

January 15th, 2010, 02:00 PM

It has to be from somewhere in SouthEast Asia.

looks good though :)

arshyam

January 17th, 2010, 09:21 PM

Those barricades are a serious traffic hazard and must go asap. In places like the Raj Bhavan one-way area, they suddenly pop-up from nowhere, and do not give enough time for a motorist driving at 40kmph to react. And that is the official speed limit :). On top of this, they have no reflectors, and have iron rods poking at random angles, and will lead to some deaths pretty soon.

Since they are movable easily, even regular commuters will be taken by surprise as they are moved to new locations (happened to me on Mount Road near Little Mount).

Plus, which moron came up with the idea of having a barricade that is perpendicular to the flow of traffic? :bash: I would like to knock some basic science/engineering ideas into his head - even I can recall flows and friction concepts, and I rarely attended college :). When water flows against a perpendicular barrier, water molecules collide with each other before going around the barrier. Traffic is also a flow and needs to regulated accordingly. When will our planners start using progressively narrowing barricades (the ones that use traffic cones to slowly divert the traffic from one lane to another)?

vs007

January 18th, 2010, 12:01 AM

One late night we were traveling on NH-7 to Hosur from Chennai and the driver was traveling at 100kmph on a practically empty road.

The next thing we know the driver slammed the brakes hard and all the passengers almost slid down from the seats and the Innova practically came to a screeching halt and barely touched the barricade.

The barricades were erected at the start of a poorly hit town, it had poor reflectors if at present and neither the driver nor me could notice it till few hundred feet away from it.

Its a stupid and Neanderthal solution for controlling speed.

dis.agree

January 18th, 2010, 10:17 AM

^^
such barricades are dangerous when traffic is light. and cause congestions when traffic is high.

i am sure our cops are not so dumb. it must be because of pure sadistic pleasures.

ChicagoThalapathi

January 19th, 2010, 08:49 PM

robertashok

January 20th, 2010, 01:32 AM

Hi Guys,
Can you throw some light on the progress on the Pallavaram, Tambaram & Vandalur ROBs.

If you have been through these construction sites, what's the current progress it reflects. Seems media does'nt cover up these projects.

Pallavaram ROB no progress it is in the same stage for the past 4 years. My house is just opposite to it, i had been to chennai in december no progression yet. i don't see happening in next 5 years too.

rsthesmart

January 20th, 2010, 08:29 AM

Could anyone post any updates on the Rangarajapuram Flyover(from Bazulla Rd over railway line). I'm awaiting it's completion eagerly because it would significantly affect ease of traffic flow in Duraiswamy subway and Kodambakkam flyover. When I came to India during the summer, work was going on at a decent pace.

arun82

January 20th, 2010, 02:47 PM

Hi Guys,
Can you throw some light on the progress on the Pallavaram, Tambaram & Vandalur ROBs.

If you have been through these construction sites, what's the current progress it reflects. Seems media does'nt cover up these projects.

60% work completed on Vandalur ROB..The level crossing has been closed to traffic but the construction over the tracks by railways is yet to be taken up

In tambaram ROB , BECC has almost completed the work...Since it also has to cross the GST road..the work over the GST road and east tambaram is pending. Since construction in east tambaram side would involve closing the traffic from east tbm to west tbm..it is still not taken up

Pallavaram ROB near pond's company was earlier construction by an small company. After the work being stopped it was given to EECC. They has completed all the work except for the portion over the GST road.

Construction of the chrompet subway near the railway station is underway and work has already started on the same

Additional info ...the road wideing project of GST road from tambaram to chrompet has started to convert the 4 lane road to six lane road

ChicagoThalapathi

January 20th, 2010, 11:32 PM

60% work completed on Vandalur ROB..The level crossing has been closed to traffic but the construction over the tracks by railways is yet to be taken up

In tambaram ROB , BECC has almost completed the work...Since it also has to cross the GST road..the work over the GST road and east tambaram is pending. Since construction in east tambaram side would involve closing the traffic from east tbm to west tbm..it is still not taken up

Pallavaram ROB near pond's company was earlier construction by an small company. After the work being stopped it was given to EECC. They has completed all the work except for the portion over the GST road.

Construction of the chrompet subway near the railway station is underway and work has already started on the same

Additional info ...the road wideing project of GST road from tambaram to chrompet has started to convert the 4 lane road to six lane road
Thanks for the update.....
Tambaram or Vandalur ROBs has to be winded up at the earliest - The authorities has to keep in mind about the density of traffic between Tambaram & Chegalepet.
Tambaram ROB which is in-progress is based on the design conceived before 10 years - Once completed in few years will not serve the purpose (Traffic would have doubled, tripled or increased 4 folds..)

The Vandalur ROB will serve as one of the main connection in Outer Ring Road Project. I heard about a link road planned/in-progres through Vandalur zoo entrance to connect the ROB and Vandalur-Kelambakkam Road.

Will watch out for more updates.....

ferrari_fan

January 21st, 2010, 04:44 AM

Pallavaram ROB near pond's company was earlier construction by an small company. After the work being stopped it was given to EECC. They has completed all the work except for the portion over the GST road.

Additional info ...the road wideing project of GST road from tambaram to chrompet has started to convert the 4 lane road to six lane road

In the Pallavaram ROB it is the segment across the GST that has been pending all along.. What additional work has been done now? Sounds like the same state it has been in for the past 5 years from your comment..

And GST from Tambaram to Chromepet was 6/8-laned long back - again not too sure what you're talking about..

Can you clarify please?

Sathisht77

January 21st, 2010, 02:54 PM

In the Pallavaram ROB it is the segment across the GST that has been pending all along.. What additional work has been done now? Sounds like the same state it has been in for the past 5 years from your comment..

And GST from Tambaram to Chromepet was 6/8-laned long back - again not too sure what you're talking about..

Can you clarify please?

Pallavaram ROB is so important to cut the travel time from IT corridor to Airport. Iam not sure why only such important project get delayed. Relatively low important flyovers within the city are getting done quickly..Whenever this shit railways is involved in some way the project is doomed. Iam sure there must be some clearance from Railways pending for this ROB to complete:bash:.

Into_salem

January 21st, 2010, 06:21 PM

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/3442/200120102243090746.jpg

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5642/200120102253156637.jpg

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8962/200120102263201550.jpg

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6016/200120102273241972.jpg

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/9418/200120102283306183.jpg

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/796/200120102293343065.jpg

Abhishek901

January 21st, 2010, 06:29 PM

^^ Nice pics :). Is it trumpet or clover leaf interchange ?

Leo_r

January 21st, 2010, 07:25 PM

^^
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ChennaiIndian

January 22nd, 2010, 03:23 AM

ferrari_fan

January 22nd, 2010, 04:32 AM

arun82

January 22nd, 2010, 10:01 AM

In the Pallavaram ROB it is the segment across the GST that has been pending all along.. What additional work has been done now? Sounds like the same state it has been in for the past 5 years from your comment..

And GST from Tambaram to Chromepet was 6/8-laned long back - again not too sure what you're talking about..

Can you clarify please

There are two ROB constructed in pallavaram...one near the pallavaram railway station and another near chrompet connecting GST road and pallavaram bypass. the railway's portion is pending for ROB near the railway station. currently the widening of the approach road from Areva signal. My comments were for the one near chrompet..

The GST road is 4 laned from MEPZ to tamabram busstand...which is widened now

arun82

January 22nd, 2010, 10:05 AM

Great pics Into_Salem! Thanks for the update.. Did you happen to pass through the Koyambedu to Maduravoyal stretch of NH4? Any progress on that stretch?

@ Abhishek: It's a full cloverleaf.. It's a pretty important junction, between the Chennai Bypass road and the NH4 leading out towards Bangalore..

:)

The road widening has been completed and Somdatt Simplex the contractor for the project has vacated the place. Since the Elevated Expressway runs inbetween the road. the central median is not constructed for this stretch. Really very difficult to drive in this road with Speeding vehicles behind you and people crossing the road everywhere.

Kewl Batty

January 22nd, 2010, 07:12 PM

Nice updates Into salem. :) Guess this will take another 3 months to get completed?

OrbitZen

January 22nd, 2010, 10:21 PM

^^ Even if its completed in 3 months time, its a road to nowhere till the Pattaravakkam ROB is completed. The 3km long elevated road from Athipet to pattaravakkam was completed, painted and even should've started to fade. :nuts:.
Considering the economic boost this road dev can do to the growth of Maduravoyal - Puzhal - Madhavaram it should be completed without haste.
News from last year was that we were waiting on nod from Southern railway. Do we have any update on the bridge?

Kewl Batty

January 23rd, 2010, 10:44 AM

Tenders up for flyover at Mint Junction in Here (http://www.tenders.tn.gov.in/innerpage.asp?choice=tc5&tid=coc41735&work=1)

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/117/mintjunction.jpg

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4901/mintjunction1.jpg

Into_salem

January 24th, 2010, 01:59 AM

Great pics Into_Salem! Thanks for the update.. Did you happen to pass through the Koyambedu to Maduravoyal stretch of NH4? Any progress on that stretch?

@ Abhishek: It's a full cloverleaf.. It's a pretty important junction, between the Chennai Bypass road and the NH4 leading out towards Bangalore..

:)

Thanks Ferrari_fan and Kewl Batty.

I was travelling by KPN from Koimbedu to Tiruchi and was busy taking some snaps outside hence could not have a closure look at the roads in particular.

Arul Murugan

January 24th, 2010, 01:38 PM

Pallavaram radial road flyover

http://tm.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/01/24/20100124a_005101012.jpg

TM

Arul Murugan

January 24th, 2010, 01:52 PM

^^

This looks easily it will take one more year. Any info about the works right top on SR's suburban tracks?

arshyam

January 24th, 2010, 06:08 PM

Last I saw, the portion over the railway tracks was mostly complete...

ferrari_fan

January 25th, 2010, 04:09 AM

^^ This is a weird project where the part over the railway tracks was completed long ago but the part across the road is not completed..

The road widening has been completed and Somdatt Simplex the contractor for the project has vacated the place. Since the Elevated Expressway runs inbetween the road. the central median is not constructed for this stretch. Really very difficult to drive in this road with Speeding vehicles behind you and people crossing the road everywhere.

Thanks for the info.. :)

ceeznic pirate

January 28th, 2010, 09:26 AM

http://www.dinakaran.com/chennaidetail.aspx?id=4670

ரூ.70 கோடியில் மேம்பாலம்

திருவொற்றியூர் : எண்ணூர் & வடசென்னை அனல் மின்நிலையத்தை இணைக்கும் வகையில், கத்திவாக்கம் பக்கிங்காம் கால்வாய் மீது ரூ.70 கோடி செலவில் மேம்பாலம் அமைக்கப்படும் என்று அமைச்சர் வெள்ளக்கோயில் சாமிநாதன்
தெரிவித்தார்.
சென்னை துறைமுகத்தில் இருந்து வடசென்னை அனல் மின்நிலையத்துக்கு செல்லும் வாகனங்கள், எண்ணூர் விரைவு சாலை, பொன்னேரி நெடுஞ்சாலை வழியாக செல்கிறது. இதை தவிர்க்க எண்ணூரையும் வட சென்னையையும் இணைக்கும் வகையில், கத்திவாக்கம் பக்கிங்காம் கால்வாய் மீது மேம்பாலம் அமைக்க வேண்டும் என்று பொதுமக்கள் சார்பில் அரசுக்கு கோரிக்கை வைக்கப்பட்டது. இதை ஏற்று கத்திவாக்கம் பக்கிங்காம் கால்வாய் மீது மேம்பாலம் அமைக்க அரசு திட்டமிட்டு, அதற்கான இடத்தை தேர்வு செய்தது.
இந்நிலையில், நெடுஞ்சாலைதுறை அமைச்சர் வெள்ளக்கோயில் சாமிநாதன், மீன்வளத்துறை அமைச்சர் கே.பி.பி.சாமி ஆகியோர் நெடுஞ்சாலை துறை அதிகாரிகளுடன் நேற்று முன்தினம் கத்திவாக்கம் வந்தனர். பக்கிங்காம் கால்வாய் மீது மேம்பாலம் அமைக்க தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்ட இடத்தை ஆய்வு செய்தனர். பின்னர், அமைச்சர் வெள்ளக்கோயில் சாமிநாதன் நிருபர்களிடம் கூறியதாவது:
எண்ணூரில் இருந்து வடசென்னை அனல் மின்நிலையத்துக்கு வாகனங்கள், பொன்னேரி நெடுஞ்சாலை வழியாக 13 கிலோ மீட்டர் தூரம் சுற்றி செல்ல வேண்டியுள்ளது. இதனால் நேரமும், எரிபொருளும் வீணாகிறது. இதை தவிர்க்க கத்திவாக்கத்தையும் வடசென்னை அனல் மின்நிலையத்தையும் இணைக்கும் வகையில் பக்கிங்காம் கால்வாய் மீது ரூ.70 கோடி செலவில் மேம்பாலம் அமைக்கப்படுகிறது. இதன் நீளம் 2.75 கிலோ மீட்டர். கால் வாயில் நடக்கும் படகு போக்குவரத்து தடைபடாமல் மேம்பாலம் அமையும். இதற்காக, விரைவில் டெண்டர் விடப்பட்டு, மார்ச் இறுதிக்குள் பணிகள் தொடங்கும். இவ்வாறு அமைச்சர் தெரிவித்தார். நெடுஞ்சாலைத்துறை தலைமை பொறியாளர் கோதண்டம், கத்திவாக்கம் நகராட்சி தலைவர் திருசங்கு, நகர திமுக செயலாளர் பாண்டியன், கவுன்சிலர்கள் சித்திரை, சிவகுமார் உள்ளிட்டோர் உடன் இருந்தனர்.

ChicagoThalapathi

January 28th, 2010, 08:12 PM

http://www.dinakaran.com/chennaidetail.aspx?id=4670

Minister promises that the work will start before March end.
Lets watch out in this forum after 2 months :dizzy::shifty:

ceeznic pirate

January 29th, 2010, 04:46 AM

Contracts for building three bridges in Chennai approved

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation Council on Thursday approved awarding of contracts for the construction of three bridges across different waterways in the city.

The proposed facility across the Cooum river connecting Officer’s Colony, 1st Street, Mehta Nagar in Ward 73, with Venkatachalapathy Street in Ward 72 would be taken up at a cost of Rs. 3.37 crore. The bridge, which would connect two residential areas, would permit two-way traffic for LMVs. It would have a clear width of 5.50 m with footpaths of 1.50 m on either side.

The bridge across Otteri Nullah connecting Narasimha Nagar and M.S.Nagar would be 21.68-m long, have a 10.9-m wide carriageway and have footpaths of .55 m on both sides.

The bridge on Pari Street across Virugambakkam Canal in the Kilpauk zone would be constructed at a cost of Rs.1.43 crore. The length of the facility would be 43 m and the breadth 18.40 m.

The Council also sanctioned the estimate for widening of Anderson Bridge at Egmore at a cost of Rs.7.06 crore. Tenders would be soon called for the work by which 9.70 m would be added to each side of the existing carriageway.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/29/stories/2010012950400100.htm

vijayvmail

January 29th, 2010, 06:25 AM

http://www.dinakaran.com/chennaidetail.aspx?id=4670

Pardon my Ignorance...

But as per the news article, a bridge will be constructed over Buckingham Canal and that its length will be 2.74 km. Is the canal this wide anywhere? Or is this like an elevated road across an area?

Also, the article mentions about Boat service in the canal. Is the canal currently navigable?

PlaneMad

January 29th, 2010, 07:23 AM

Pardon my Ignorance...

But as per the news article, a bridge will be constructed over Buckingham Canal and that its length will be 2.74 km. Is the canal this wide anywhere? Or is this like an elevated road across an area?

Also, the article mentions about Boat service in the canal. Is the canal currently navigable?

i cant read the article, but im assuming this is across the ennore creek which is quite wide. right now the only way across is by rail, or by boat (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=13.2303&mlon=80.3218&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF).

ceeznic pirate

January 29th, 2010, 07:43 AM

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ramki_v

January 29th, 2010, 10:56 PM

Dear Members, anyone have idea on the progress of Rangarajapuram to North Usman road flyover through Bazullah road. to me looks like bazullah road side of the work is completed but no progress on the other side. when is this expected to finish. T.Nagar traffice intolerable:)
Thanks for your reply

darkprinz

January 30th, 2010, 02:58 PM

^^ bazullah road part - pillars have been finished and the connecting beams are also being constructed ...

in rangarajapuram side...

one y branch towards west mambalam side - pillars completed ... and the connecting beams are being done

other y- branch towards kodambakkam station - pillars finished .. beams yet to be connected...

They are also working on the beam over rail track ;)

MyNation

January 31st, 2010, 04:39 AM

Chennai: The highways department has floated tenders for constructing a road-overbridge (ROB) at the Vyasarpadi subway. It is estimated to cost Rs 80.68 crore, and the major pie will go towards acquiring lands, sources said.
The four-lane ROB will have two arms reaching Erukkencheri High Road and Sathyamurthy Nagar Main Road in Vyasarpadi. “The plan is to have 1.4 km of the bridge from Basin Bridge Road in the southern end. The entire project will be carried out within 36 months from the day the work order is issued,” said a senior official. The cost of the project will be borne by both Southern Railway and Highways department.
AIADMK regime announced this project in 2001 but had shelved it due to the high cost involved in land acquisition. It appears that the highways reworked the alignment and trimmed the extent of acquisition. About 22,400 sq m of land, including 4,700 sq m of private land, will be acquired for the ROB, it is estimated. The district revenue has already been asked to speed up acquisition.
The low verticle clearance of the subway — 4 metres, as against the stipulated 5.5 metres — hinders heavy vehicle movement. “Many a time the trucks got stuck in the subway, leading to huge traffic snarls in the arterial road dubbed as gateway of north Chennai,” said NS Ramachandra Rao, a resident of Kodungaiyur.
The railway has given its nod for the general alignment drawing submitted by the highways and the authorities hope to zero in on the contractor on February 24. The plan is that the bridge will be 21.2-metre wide, including a 1.2-metre-wide median and a 1.5-metre-wide footpath on either sides.
“For more than a decade we have been demanding an ROB. Now with the corporation replacing the Perambur subway and additional bridge coming up at Perambur locoworks, Vyasarpadi bridge would be of major help to those from Manali or Madhavaram,” said Rajarathnam, a resident of Vyasarpadi. There has been a manifold increase in the number of vehicles taking this route over the years.
Motorists have to wait for more than half an hour during peak traffic hours to cross the subway. During the rains, the subway gets flooded.

Source : TOI

kodai

January 31st, 2010, 07:13 PM

Does anybody know if there is any plan in the pipeline to redo Gemini flyover. This has exceeded its capacity and now its a nightmare during the morning and evening commute, wish they expand this and may be they do something like the one in Kathipara junction. It would be really nice to have an elevated express highway for the entire stretch of Mount road(Anna salai) with exit ramps at major intersections like TNAGAR, cathedral road , Saidapet and Guindi. I just came across these pictures in bangalore thread

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=394998&page=18

They can erect pillars right in the middle of mount road and make a two tier road 4 lanes down and 4 lanes elevated. This would definitely solve the traffic in Mount road

or may be do something like BOSTONS big DIG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBwxhSD_1fA&feature=related

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/boston/interactive/interactive.html

Just a wish, I don't know if it is feasible in chennai. The boston big dig costed
$14.8 billion, may be we can do it in smaller scale

:nuts:

ChennaiIndian

January 31st, 2010, 10:29 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/01/stories/2010020163620200.htm

CHENNAI: The Perambur flyover will be opened by the first week of March, Deputy Chief Minister M.K.Stalin said here on Sunday.

“Most of the work has been completed. It will be inaugurated either in the last week of February or in the first week of March by Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi,” Mr.Stalin said.

The Deputy Chief Minister announced this after inaugurating a pair of lifts at the foot overbridge on Nungambakkam High Road, making it the first such facility in the city.

The Rs.68-crore Perambur flyover, on commissioning, will be a crucial link reducing the travel time for thousands of people who commute to and from north Chennai localities. A park is also being built on either sides of the flyover, Mr. Stalin added.

Though work to construct the flyover began in 1999, it was stopped a year later on account of weak sub-soil. A fresh design was drawn up by experts and the work order was issued in May 2008 and work commenced in December 2008.

“More lifts and foot overbridges will be installed in the city,” said Mr.Stalin. A FOB with lifts would be installed on Taluk Office Road, Saidapet, at a cost of Rs.94 lakh and two more such facilities would be installed at a cost of Rs.94 lakh each on Wallajah Road near the new Assembly complex, he said.

Work on improving the FOB on Nungambakkam High Road began in July. The capacity of the lift car is 15 persons.

The 18-metre-long bridge connects the two 5.5-metre-high structures housing the lift. A Corporation employee would provide assistance to the users.

Mr.Stalin also inaugurated two sculptures of cultural significance – a sculpture of Therukoothu on Sterling Avenue, Nungambakkam and Puliattam sculpture on Sardar Patel Road, Adyar. Four more sculptures would be installed within a month.

vijayvmail

February 1st, 2010, 05:45 AM

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/01/stories/2010020163620200.htm

“More lifts and foot overbridges will be installed in the city,” said Mr.Stalin. A FOB with lifts would be installed on Taluk Office Road, Saidapet, at a cost of Rs.94 lakh and two more such facilities would be installed at a cost of Rs.94 lakh each on Wallajah Road near the new Assembly complex, he said.

Work on improving the FOB on Nungambakkam High Road began in July. The capacity of the lift car is 15 persons.

What is this idea of installing FOBs with lifts? I understand that it is very helpful for the elderly and physically challenged people. But wouldn't escalators be a better way?

Lift maintenance is difficult - especially in public roads.

A Corporation employee would provide assistance to the users.

How long will this 'corporation employee' be there? Will he/she stay there all day waiting to provide assistance to people? There will be an official record of such a post and someone will just keep siphoning the intended salary.
And are they going to employ a person at each lift that is being planned around the city?

Is there anyone who can think realistically and ask questions???

Bless

February 1st, 2010, 06:04 AM

What is this idea of installing FOBs with lifts? I understand that it is very helpful for the elderly and physically challenged people. But wouldn't escalators be a better way?

In my opinion no for two reasons.
1. escalators needs more space and expensive. two for claiming up and two for coming down.
2. lifts benefits differently-abled/ Aged but not escalators.

others can use steps.

Lift maintenance is difficult - especially in public roads.

This gives me the feeling that one must be given responsibility of the lifts

How long will this 'corporation employee' be there? Will he/she stay there all day waiting to provide assistance to people? There will be an official record of such a post and someone will just keep siphoning the intended salary.
And are they going to employ a person at each lift that is being planned around the city?

Is there anyone who can think realistically and ask questions???

I hope they will be contract employees. getting constant low income & maintaining lift.

If Gov gives to tenders and made a condition that tidiness of the lift is mandatory, lift boy/girl (they them self might be differently abled) will be responsible for the keeping the lift clean so siphoning might not be the question.

RANJITKUMAR

February 1st, 2010, 07:52 PM

It is not good news for motorists and pedestrians using Bazullah Road, North Usman Road and Rangarajapuram — construction of a flyover here is likely to get delayed by eight months. “It will be completed by June next year,” said mayor M Subramanian, while reviewing the progress of work at the construction site on Wednesday.
The flyover will connect Bazullah Road from the North Usman Road side to Rangarajapuram on the other, where it will branch off into Subramania Nagar First Street on the southern side and Gopala Menon Street in Kodambakkam on the northern side. According to the plan, the flyover will be about 1.12 km long and 7.5 metres wide.
The two-lane flyover, which will replace the railway level crossing, is estimated to cost Rs 22.5 crore. Chaotic traffic in the area, thanks to the real estate development in Porur, Virugambakkam and Nesapakkam, led the local body to plan its construction. Once complete, the flyover is expected to lessen the burden on the Doraiswamy subway and the Kodambakkam flyover, arterial routes leading to T Nagar.
“Though the local body issued a work order to the contractor last year, delay in shifting utility lines, especially pipelines managed by Metrowater, hampered the progress of work,” sources said. Initially, Southern Railway, too, faced difficulty in identifying a contractor to build the portion falling on its land. The railways will spend Rs 6.75 crore to build six pillars and deck slabs for about 100 metres.
“The railways have plans to build a bowstring arch on either side of the flyover, similar to those on Napier bridge. Rail authorities now rely on the commissioner of railway safety’s clearance to construct deck slabs since it involves the safety of rail commuters,” a senior railway official said. Of the 27 pillars, the local body and the railways have together completed 10 so far.
Residents and elected representatives of Aziz Nagar and Parangusapuram complained to the mayor during his visit about the damage to storm-water drains as a result of the construction. “If the drains are not repaired, we fear the worst in the coming monsoon. The sewer lines in the locality are also not in good shape. Metrowater has engaged tankers to pump out 20 loads of sewage from the affected streets daily,” said Susila Gopalakrishnan, a Congress councillor.
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This dmk government is constructing new bridges to earn money not to serve the public this bridges are wont last long you know this guys

http://www.findtorrentz.com

ChennaiIndian

February 1st, 2010, 09:14 PM

In my opinion no for two reasons.
1. escalators needs more space and expensive. two for claiming up and two for coming down.
2. lifts benefits differently-abled/ Aged but not escalators.

others can use steps.

This gives me the feeling that one must be given responsibility of the lifts

I hope they will be contract employees. getting constant low income & maintaining lift.

If Gov gives to tenders and made a condition that tidiness of the lift is mandatory, lift boy/girl (they them self might be differently abled) will be responsible for the keeping the lift clean so siphoning might not be the question.

To add to these, escalators are expensive and susceptible to being stolen easily...our legendary MRTS stations have proved that time and again :lol:.

I think not many people will use these facilities to cross a road which does not even have a divider/median and has one-way traffic - meaning that it is easy to cross going by the mindset of an average Indian :lol:. I have seen many pics where people don't even use the FOB connecting TIDEL Park and the MRTS station opposite that. They just run over and jump around medians like monkeys :nuts:. Based on these 'statistics', this junction should be a cake-walk for those monkeys :lol:.

ChennaiIndian

February 1st, 2010, 10:21 PM

Atleast ippovavadhu idha pathiyellam pesaraangapa...

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/02/stories/2010020253750400.htm

CHENNAI: The road overbridge being constructed in Tambaram Sanatorium should be completed by March, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi advised the Highways Department on Monday. Two such bridges in Pattabiram and Tirunindravur should be ready by April. Mr. Karunanidhi gave these instructions while reviewing the progress of functioning of the department. Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin was present.

Arul Murugan

February 2nd, 2010, 02:43 AM

* Tambaram flyover, Palaverkadu flyover are planned for completion in March month

* Pattabiram and Thirunidravur flyover are planned for completion in April month

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/02/02/20100202a_005101007.jpg

CC:Dinakaran

gnams

February 2nd, 2010, 04:52 AM

[QUOTE=Arul Murugan;51156119]* Tambaram flyover, Palaverkadu flyover are planned for completion in March month

* Pattabiram and Thirunidravur flyover are planned for completion in April month

Arul,
which one is it?
is it the one at tambaram-sanatorium opp to mepz or the one connecting tambaram and velachery main road?

ceeznic pirate

February 2nd, 2010, 09:01 AM

Arul,
which one is it?
is it the one at tambaram-sanatorium opp to mepz or the one connecting tambaram and velachery main road?

from the newsclip u can read it as tambaram-sanatorium flyover

Arul Murugan

February 2nd, 2010, 01:08 PM

Koyamedu Flyover construction update picture

http://tm.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/02/02/20100202a_003101006.jpg

Tamilmurasu

dis.agree

February 2nd, 2010, 03:17 PM

Koyamedu Flyover construction update picture

http://tm.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/02/02/20100202a_003101006.jpg

Tamilmurasu

from this pic we could make out 2 loops on the same side (quadrant where vijayakanth's land was acquired). one loop is for vehicles travelling along ponamalle roads west wanting to go irr north - they stay left of the main flyover, go loop over irr south (what we see on the pic) and decend down onto irr north. this i would say is about 80% complete.

on this pic, we can also make out a few pillars for another loop that allow vehicles along irr south to reach ponamallee road west. for this one needs to along irr south and after flyover take the loop on left to merge onto the main flyover. not much work started for this. i would say 10%.

main flyover is also about 80% complete. couple of more spans over irr needs to be built. this pic is probably couple of weeks old. i think scaffoldings have been added for remaining spans too in the middle.

one more loop from ponamallee road east to irr south is also almost complete.

if they continue working at this pace, i think some parts of this interchange should be opened for traffic in the next 3-4 months.

ChennaiNme

February 2nd, 2010, 04:20 PM

Hi all,

Am new to this forum. All you guys are doing an excellent job of keeping track of the happenings in chennai irrespective of wherever you reside currently.

Could anybody provide any update on the ROBs (Rail Overbridges) on the GST road (Vandalur, Madambakkam-Adhanur, Guduvanchery-Singaperumal Koil).

-- ChennaiNme.

gnams

February 2nd, 2010, 11:39 PM

from the newsclip u can read it as tambaram-sanatorium flyover

thats fine... but the heading says tambaram flyover and i heard sanatorium flyover is completed and people already started using it.

ChicagoThalapathi

February 2nd, 2010, 11:53 PM

Any new images on the Tambaram ROB which is being constructed?

ceeznic pirate

February 4th, 2010, 09:16 AM

Dinamalar

http://epaper.dinamalar.com/DM/DINAMALAR/2010/02/04/Article//017/04_02_2010_017_006.jpg

Leo_r

February 4th, 2010, 09:59 AM

Porur Flyover work to begin in a fortnight

State Highway dept has issued work order for the construction of a 600 M flyover at Porur junction to M/S Siva Engg., Erode at a cost of Rs 34.72 crores. Work to be completed by March. Year not known...

Tender to be issued soon for construction of Flyovers at busy junctions at Thirumangalam and Mollakadai. Cost estimate Rs 107 crores.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Chennai/article100392.ece

RajBang

February 5th, 2010, 07:55 AM

I feel the following works will get completed before the tenure of the present gov ends(the government can inaugurate projects before march 2011 bec election code of conduct will come into force.)
1. koyembedu flyover.
2. Perambur flyover.
3. pattabiram ROB
4. Thinnanur ROB
5. villivakkam subway
6. porur flyover.
7. tambaram sanitorium ROB
8. pallavaram ROB
9. Pallavaram radial road flyover.
10. Tambaram ROB
11. Rangarajapuram ROB

I have added the flyovers, subway and rob which iam sure will be completed before march 2011. please add the rest which will be over by that time so that we can keep track.

ChennaiIndian

February 5th, 2010, 04:18 PM

dis.agree

February 6th, 2010, 07:59 AM

main flyover is also about 80% complete. couple of more spans over irr needs to be built. this pic is probably couple of weeks old. i think scaffoldings have been added for remaining spans too in the middle.

checked again yesterday. sorry, i was wrong. that pic was a recent one and scaffoldings are still not started for couple of spans. my guess is this would be complete by march end and after that tar work should begin. am i too hopeful of a partial opening by month of may?

ferrari_fan

February 6th, 2010, 09:01 AM

ramvaradan

February 6th, 2010, 01:52 PM

^^ I would say that the loop in the foreground of that pic might well be done by May.. I don't see any reason why that part shouldn't be inaugurated first..

But the main span and the 3 loops from it look like they'll take maybe another year or so, going by the precedent set by the Kathipara cloverleaf..

I don't understand ... is'nt the main-span that connects all the loops? How can the loop be open for use alone? And, I thought this Koyambedu has only 3 loops..

ferrari_fan

February 7th, 2010, 04:34 AM

^^ I worded it badly.. Shouldn't have said the "loop" in the foreground - I meant the ramp in the f/g - it is independent of the main span and will be used for traffic from PH Road turning onto IRR towards Anna Nagar/Padi..

Hope I was a little clearer this time..

:)

Keeran

February 9th, 2010, 01:29 PM

Very good construction and aesthetically the best among flyovers in TN. The road is also very good. The engineers have to be complimented. Delay in completion appears avoidable.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_sSkjT4GqGwc/S3ESRylXUUI/AAAAAAAADes/F4zDnx9uL2w/s640/DSC03126.JPG

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Abhishek901

February 9th, 2010, 03:42 PM

^^ Looks nice. Is it 6 lane or 8 lane ?

Kewl Batty

February 9th, 2010, 04:09 PM

^^ 6-lane and 3.2 km long.. part of Chennai Bypass phaseII :)

@ Keeran, the delay is mainly coz of the ROB in pattravakkam and the railways have not put it up yet!

===

Tenders up for ROB @ Vyasarpadi subway in here (http://tenders.tn.gov.in/innerpage.asp?choice=tc5&tid=hwa42561&work=1)

Arul Murugan

February 10th, 2010, 01:14 AM

Perambur flyover works in full swing - will be put into operation by March 3rd week:Dinakaran

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/02/10/20100210c_015101006.jpg

ChicagoThalapathi

February 10th, 2010, 01:48 AM

Perambur flyover works in full swing - will be put into operation by March 3rd week:Dinakaran

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/02/10/20100210c_015101006.jpg

^^
At last the Perambur flyover comes true:cheers:
A LONG WAITED ONE FOR THE NORTH CHENNAITES !!!!

ferrari_fan

February 10th, 2010, 04:33 AM

^^ Nice!! Silly question but is this really a flyover? Looks more like a railway overbridge to me.. :?

Black Knight

February 10th, 2010, 06:23 AM

^^ Nice!! Silly question but is this really a flyover? Looks more like a railway overbridge to me.. :?

yap this is an railway overbridge connecting north and central chennai at perambur.

die4chennai

February 10th, 2010, 08:32 AM

Its definitely not just a ROB; Its far better than the mini-flyovers constructed at various part of the city... It cuts across two major roads apart from the railway line... Adding to that... the northern part of the flyover which is not visible in the pic will drastically reduce traffic along Madhavaram High road.

ChennaiIndian

February 12th, 2010, 01:56 AM

Cross posted from Chennai Bypass thread...

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/chennai-bypass-inauguration-june-632

Feb. 11: The work on the Rs 405-crore, phase 2 of the Chennai bypass project connecting Madurovoyal and Madhavaram is nearing completion and in all likelihood would be thrown open to public by June this year, according to NHAI officials.
The project is being implemented in two phases to interlink all the four national highways – the Grand Southern Trunk Road (NH 45), the Chennai - Bengaluru road (NH 4), the Madras Tirupati High Road (NH 205) and the Chennai - Kolkata road (NH 5) – around the city and minimise traffic
congestion within the city limits.
An NHAI official said that the work on the 13-km long main carriageway from Maduravoyal to Puzhal via Ambattur industrial estate and Pattaravakkam has now been completed. Even though three-km long elevated corridor in the estate has been completed, it would be opened to the public only after the completion of entire work, the official added.
The official said that the grade separator coming up on the Chennai Bypass-Poonamallee High Road junction in Maduravoyal is at the advanced stage of completion. “The grade separator will have four loops for vehicles proceeding from Tambaram to Koyambedu, Poonamallee to Tambaram, Puzhal to Poonamallee and Koyambedu to Puzhal. The work will be completed by April.” :cheers:
“As far as the railway over bridge at Pattaravakkam is concerned, it would be completed by May. Though the irrigation department has agreed to give permission for the alignment of the project crossing the small canal near Madhavaram, we are still waiting for an official letter from the department,” the official said.
Apart from vehicular subways provided in seven locations, including Ambattur, Red Hills Road and Surapet, to enable motorists to use the arterial roads, the NHAI has also planned to provide one more subway at the Canal crossing near Madhavaram. “Once the project is completed, vehicles coming through GST Road can reach NH-4, NH-5 and NH-205 without touching the city roads,” an official said.

ChennaiIndian

February 12th, 2010, 01:57 AM

^^ 2010 will hopefully be the flyover year for Chennai :banana:...from new grade separators at Maduvoyal and Koyembedu to the ROBs of Tambaram, Pallavaram and Perambur, Chennaities will be flying and not driving on roads. :lol:

ferrari_fan

February 12th, 2010, 04:36 AM

Good news on the Bypass.. I don't understand how it allows access to NH205 though?

Doesn't the Ambattur elevated road pass over NH205 without any interchange enable access to the ground level road?

And yes 2010 could well be the year of the flyover in Chennai..

Besides the numerous inaugurations likely, there's also likely to be a fair number of projects that are kicked off - especially flyovers and elevated roads along the Metro corridors of PH Road and Anna Salai, given the 2011 deadline for foundation works on these corridors..

RajBang

February 12th, 2010, 06:39 AM

I think they are bluffing. iam sure Pattravakam flyover will take solid 1 year. so bye pass will be inauguaratd by end of 2010

robertashok

February 12th, 2010, 07:22 AM

win-win

February 12th, 2010, 12:22 PM

Pallavaram ROB is in same stage for the past 5 years.

Work in ROB near Pallavaram station seems to be progressing after a long lull due to land acquisition issues from defence. This could get completed soon.

Another ROB connecting GST & OMR - god only knows the completion date. Can anyone update the progress. Thanks.

ramvaradan

February 12th, 2010, 02:14 PM

I think they are bluffing. iam sure Pattravakam flyover will take solid 1 year. so bye pass will be inauguaratd by end of 2010

With elections fast approaching, expect miracles.

darkprinz

February 12th, 2010, 04:50 PM

add rangarajapuram flyover too ;)

sampath1986

February 12th, 2010, 06:40 PM

Work in ROB near Pallavaram station seems to be progressing after a long lull due to land acquisition issues from defence. This could get completed soon.

Another ROB connecting GST & OMR - god only knows the completion date. Can anyone update the progress. Thanks.

Well the work on ROB connecting GST and OMR is also going on in full swing.
I think this will also most probably be completed before the end of 2010.

Kewl Batty

February 12th, 2010, 06:51 PM

Guys, CMRL invited tenders for elevated stations in which the integrated viaduct - flyover @ Vadapalani is also a part :cheers1:

So, Vadapalani Flyover tender is up :)

nirm

February 12th, 2010, 08:06 PM

Work in ROB near Pallavaram station seems to be progressing after a long lull due to land acquisition issues from defence. This could get completed soon.
...

I keep noticing a pattern here with land acquisition issues with Defense Department. Chennai Airport is another example. Acquiring defense land seems to be a bottle neck. Defense is sitting on huge tracts of prime land inside cities and obstructing progress on infrastructure. This situation is ridiculous considering the fact lack of infrastructure is a national security issue and the Defense Ministry is the one that needs to be most cooperative in this regard. There should be a national level policy to relocate all defense establishment out of cities.

ramvaradan

February 12th, 2010, 10:12 PM

Guys, CMRL invited tenders for elevated stations in which the integrated viaduct - flyover @ Vadapalani is also a part :cheers1:

So, Vadapalani Flyover tender is up :)

Source ??

Kewl Batty

February 12th, 2010, 10:54 PM

^^ see my post in chennai metro thread.. cross quoting it here

Tenders up for Elevated Stations

1. Corridor 2 (http://chennaimetrorail.gov.in/EAS-04.htm)
Koyambedu, CMBT, Arumbakkam, Vadapalani, Ashok Nagar/KK Nagar stations including integrated viaduct + flyover @ Vadapalani

2. Corridor 1 (http://chennaimetrorail.gov.in/EAS-05.htm)
Little Mount, Guindy, Alandur, OTA and SIDCO stations

sridhar_n

February 13th, 2010, 07:23 AM

^^ so vadapalani flyover is being taken up with Metro. What about the proposed 5 flyovers in Mt. Road?

Kewl Batty

February 13th, 2010, 08:23 AM

^^ They got metro clearance for 5 flyovers but the govt. has not yet decided on whether to go for 5 flyovers or 2 elevated roads.

kannan infratech

February 13th, 2010, 09:26 AM

I keep noticing a pattern here with land acquisition issues with Defense Department. Chennai Airport is another example. Acquiring defense land seems to be a bottle neck. Defense is sitting on huge tracts of prime land inside cities and obstructing progress on infrastructure. This situation is ridiculous considering the fact lack of infrastructure is a national security issue and the Defense Ministry is the one that needs to be most cooperative in this regard. There should be a national level policy to relocate all defense establishment out of cities.

Looking from a diffferent angle, most of the cities have the last few pockets of lung spaces left only because of these Defence Lands.

If each city has a definite masterplan for next 20 years, then why you need defence land for city development.

Why cant the ciies grow horizontally?

sridhar_n

February 13th, 2010, 09:52 AM

Looking from a diffferent angle, most of the cities have the last few pockets of lung spaces left only because of these Defence Lands.

If each city has a definite masterplan for next 20 years, then why you need defence land for city development.

Why cant the ciies grow horizontally?

Actually what was outskirts/suburbs couple of decades ago has become part of the city. The city has indeed grown horizontally.

I think the defence land issues are limited to areas between Alandur - Tambaram. Hence, any development / proposed development has to consider the land in their possession. But defence authorities should also be more pragmatic and take quick decisions - now the Airport Expansion is slated to undergo a change because, apparently defence authorities have refused to vacate a building. If the defence land / building not being used or is being used for non-critical activities, they should be ready to forego it and get an equivalent amount of land / building built by the new developer.

v4Chennai

February 16th, 2010, 02:03 AM

7 FLYOVERS TO BE READY
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS GET A POLL PUSH
Government Makes Efforts To Complete Major Infrastructure Works Before The 2011 Assembly Elections
Jeeva & Julie Mariappan | TNN

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Chennai: The state is racing against time to wrap up a slew of infrastructure projects before next year’s assembly elections. After a little nudge here and there to the blueprint, the Metro Rail alignment has also been finalised so that the other projects tied up with it are not held up.
If all goes well, there will be flyovers at Koyambedu, Maduravoyal, Porur, Vadapalani, Mint and Moolakadai before the May 2011 polls.
The flyover at Maduravoyal, which will resemble the clover-shaped one at Kathipara, is likely to be completed in a couple of months. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is constructing it as part of the Rs 405-cr Chennai Bypass-II project. Construction of the flyover at Koyambedu traffic junction at a cost of Rs 100 crore will be completed by June this year, said an NHAI official.
“The work is in full swing. There
are hurdles with land acquisition but they will be sorted out. Main carriageway of the flyover will be ready by April and other works will be over by June,’’ a senior NHAI official said. Both Koyambedu and Maduravoyal flyovers will be linked with the 19-km-long Chennai Port-Maduravoyal elevated highway.
The corporation has five projects involving the railway. Vehicular subways at MC Road near Stanley Medical College and Villivakkam Level Crossing 2, flyovers at Kathivakkam High Road-Cochraine Basin Road and Rangarajapuram, and an additional bridge at Perambur Loco Works. “We will see to it that all the projects get over before elections,” said Mayor M Subramanian. The mayor said that he had been talking to all senior railway officials to fast-track the projects.
Many of these projects would have been completed last year itself but for the railways. For instance, the local body completed the approach roads to the MC Road subway a year ago, but the railway hasn’t finished its part of the work beneath the tracks. In the Kathivakkam High Road project, the corporation has laid 20 piles and hoped to complete its work by August. “However, the railway contractor is engaged in another work and the railway has promised to recommence the work in March and complete it in December,” sources said.
In Villivakkam, the work began in June 2007 and going by the original deadline, should have been over by December 2008. Initially, the railway contractor dragged the work citing rise in prices of construction material. Now, the contractor is finding it hard to fix the pre-fabricated concrete boxes underneath the tracks. The local body has completed pillars and deck slab works are in progress for the Rangarajapuram flyover. Save pillars, the railway has not done anything to construct bowstring arch on the lines of Napier Bridge.
Corporation officials said that the railway’s pace is messing up its administrative schedules. “The corporation’s contract period with contractors will be over by June this year. Delay will pose audit problems,” sources said.
On the two flyovers that will come up in Porur junction and Nerkundram, the state highways department issued work orders recently. It has asked the contractors to complete the construction in 13 months rather than 18 months, which is the norm. Work on both the flyovers is likely to begin this week. “We want the on-going and recently awarded works on flyover to be over by March 2011. We have also asked the government to clear our proposals to construct flyovers or elevated highways on Anna Salai and Poonamallee High Road so that we can at least lay the foundation by March 2011 before the Metro Rail work begins,’’ an highways official said.
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Crunching Time
The details of the upcoming projects that are fast-tracked
Koyambedu flyover | Project cost: Rs 100 crore | Expected to be completed in June 2010 | It’ll ensure smooth traffic on Inner Ring Road & Poonamallee High Road
Maduravoyal flyover | A part of Rs 405 crore Chennai Bypass-II | Likely to be completed by Aprilend | It will link Chennai Bypass and Chennai Port-Maduravoyal elevated highway
Porur flyover | Project cost: Rs 35 crore | Work order issued last month | Work to begin this week High-level bridge, Nerkundram | To be built across Cooum river near MGR University | Project cost: Rs 16 crore | Works commenced last week | Will provide better connectivity for residents of Mogappair to Poonamallee High Road
M C Road Subway | Project cost: Rs 19.7 crore | Works commenced last week | Will provide better connectivity for residents of Mogappair to Poonamallee High Road Villivakkam subway at level crossing 2 | Project cost: Rs 37.92 crore | The 480m-long and 8mwide subway links Kolathur, Madhavaram and parts of Perambur to Kilpauk and Anna Nagar
Flyover at Kathivakkam High Road-Cochraine Basin Road | Project cost: Rs 19.81 crore | It is 525m long and 8.5m wide | This will replace the existing level crossing and the ease congestion due to oil tanker movement Additional bridge at Loco Works | Project cost: Rs 8.41 crore | 106m long and 4.5m wide | There will be 1.8m-wide footpaths on both sides. It will support a century-old bridge connecting Perambur and ICF
Rangarajapuram flyover | Project cost: Rs 21.87 crore | 1.1km long and 7.5m wide | Bow-string arch on the lines of Napier Bridge will form part of the project

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PlaneMad

February 16th, 2010, 09:25 AM

The rangarajapuram flyover is still a mystery. is there a diagram anywhere about it?
From some groundwork on wikimapia (http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=13.0469646&lon=80.2298391&z=18&l=0&m=h&search=rangarajapuram) it looks like its going to be a z shaped flyover from bazullah road to rangarajapuram main road

ramvaradan

February 16th, 2010, 01:57 PM

^^

Another case of reporter regurgitating whatever was given to him/her.
The chances of Vadapalani flyover before May 2011 is a joke worth the ridicule.

v4Chennai

February 17th, 2010, 01:00 AM

Metro Rail to build flyover at Vadapalani
V Ayyappan | TNN

Chennai: It will be the Chennai Metro Rail, not the state highways department, that will build the flyover at its elevated Vadapalani station.
The highways department originally planned it to decongest Jawaharlal Nehru road (100 Feet Road) - Arcot Road junction. The 400m flyover has been included in a tender floated last week to build five elevated stations — Koyambedu, CMBT, Arumbakkam, Vadapalani and Ashok Nagar.
A Metro Rail official said, “We have decided to construct the Vadapalani flyover because the structure will have to be integrated with the elevated corridors and stations being built by Metro Rail.” Though minute details of the design are yet to be finalised, Metro Rail is planning things in such a way that the flyover will also help commuters drive in and drive out of the station. The integrated structure will have car parking and roadside drop-off zones through ramps.
Metro Rail will also soon start examining the projects planned by the highways department along Poonamallee High Road that falls in Corridor Two — Central-St Thomas Mount — based on applications submitted by the authority for clearance.
“We will have to clear all projects planned along the Metro Rail alignment. We have received a couple of applications for projects along Poonamallee High Road. A technical team will have to carry out a detailed study before clearing projects,” said a senior official of Metro Rail.
“Once all projects planned by other agencies
are cleared, Metro Rail will carry on with its construction works for which tenders have been awarded to Soma Enterprises and Larson and Toubro to build elevated corridors,” said the official.
With works progressing rapidly at different locations on 100 Feet Road, Metro Rail has also floated a tender to identify builders for five more stations - Little Mount, Guindy, Alandur, Officers Training Academy and SIDCO industrial estate of Corridor Two.
L&T has already bagged a contract to design and construct the 4.56km-long elevated viaduct from Ashok Nagar to St Thomas Mount at an estimated cost of Rs 141.13 crore and the 5.17-km stretch from Saidapet to the OTA at Rs 173.30 crore. Soma Enterprises has already started works on the elevated corridor from Koyambedu to Ashok Nagar.
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February 17th, 2010, 01:04 AM

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As per the news they are going to try something different and I will happy if that happens......

On the two flyovers that will come up in Porur junction and Nerkundram, the state highways department issued work orders recently. It has asked the contractors to complete the construction in 13 months rather than 18 months, which is the norm. :nuts::nuts::nuts:Work on both the flyovers is likely to begin this week. “We want the on-going and recently awarded works on flyover to be over by March 2011. We have also asked the government to clear our proposals to construct flyovers or elevated highways on Anna Salai and Poonamallee High Road so that we can at least lay the foundation by March 2011 before the Metro Rail work begins,’’ an highways official said.

vijayvmail

February 18th, 2010, 03:40 AM

Source: Thiruvanmiyur flyover and subway project yet to take off (http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/18/stories/2010021860690300.htm)

CHENNAI: Almost a year after it was proposed in the 2009-10 budget of the Chennai Corporation, a flyover-cum-subway project of the civic body in Thiruvanmiyur remains a non-starter.

Sources in the civic body said that the project, to ease traffic congestion at one of the busy traffic junctions in the city, was unlikely to be pursued in view of the financial constraints.

Mayor M. Subramanian told The Hindu that “it is not possible to allocate funds for the project in the 2010-11 budget. We do not have funds for such a large project. Land acquisition alone will cost around Rs.120 crore.”

On the financial constraints of the Corporation, he said that next fiscal the civic body would be investing around Rs.400 crore, as its share, in construction of stormwater drains and strengthening of canals under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Even for this we may have to obtain loan,” he said.

Several residents of Thiruvanmiyur, however, want the Corporation to construct either a flyover or a subway near the junction. Roshan Jayakumar, a resident, said: “Sometimes it takes around 10 minutes for motorists to cross the junction. Pedestrians find it difficult to cross the junction and are forced to run across,” he said.

V. M. Dhandapani, secretary, Kamaraj Nagar Residents Welfare Association, said traffic changes, such as the one under which vehicles from ECR are being diverted through 22nd East Street, South Avenue and 8th East Street, only shifted the congestion from one point to another. The flyover was a necessity at the junction. “Thiruvanmiyur is the entry point for all traffic from ECR. Even long-distance buses take this route,” he said.

M. Jayaraman of PMK, who is chairman of the Corporation’s Zone 10, said the project must not be shelved. “The Corporation spent a lot of money to construct a flyover on Cenotaph Road for which too it had spent a lot of money on land acquisition. They even fought battles in the High Court and ensured that the flyover came up. We will launch agitation if the flyover-cum-subway project at Thiruvanmiyur junction is dropped,” he said.

Is government funding the only option for such projects?
For Metro rail systems, Tolled expressways etc. private players pitch in the Build-operate-transfer mode where they collect revenues from tickets and tolls. But such a revenue source is absent in city road projects. So, what other ways can these projects be taken up to ensure availability of funds? Surely, the government cannot fund everything.

Bless

February 18th, 2010, 05:48 AM

Source: Thiruvanmiyur flyover and subway project yet to take off (http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/18/stories/2010021860690300.htm)

Is government funding the only option for such projects?
For Metro rail systems, Tolled expressways etc. private players pitch in the Build-operate-transfer mode where they collect revenues from tickets and tolls. But such a revenue source is absent in city road projects. So, what other ways can these projects be taken up to ensure availability of funds? Surely, the government cannot fund everything.

^^
Other way to rise the funding is to cut the freebies . I'm not against giving freebies to those really needed. But I'm against TV for all families who already have TV, Free student buspass whose monthly school fee it self 500Rs etc.

One-way I'm happy that at least now one politician openly commenting on fund crunch.

saurabh85

February 18th, 2010, 07:20 PM

^^
Other way to rise the funding is to cut the freebies . I'm not against giving freebies to those really needed. But I'm against TV for all families who already have TV, Free student buspass whose monthly school fee it self 500Rs etc.

One-way I'm happy that at least now one politician openly commenting on fund crunch.

That fund crunch shit is pissing me off!!!! If i am right they have wasted well over a couple of thousand crores of tax money on free TV's alone!!!

barrykul

February 18th, 2010, 09:09 PM

Yeah I agree that these politicians after looting the basic funds are crying for more funds to loot. For heavens sake, the basic road/street in Chennai is one humunguous mess. The pavements are not proper, the sidewalks have odds and ends like old transformers, electric boxes. Everywhere they have dug up the road and the patch work is incomplete or dysfunctional. Street Lights dont work. the streets are eternally filthy with sand and dust everywhere, garbage strewn everywhere and people using the streets as their private toilet. All the funds for maintaining streets (funded by the residents tax on homes) has vanished into thin air with nothing to show for. I am yet to see one Chennai corporation worker doing an honest job for the paycheck he/she receives. All the machinery is broken and not fixed, govt offices are completely inefficient. They still have dog eared files, steel cases filled with binders of ancient history, no computerization, the worker bees take long lunches and constant tea breaks, they are constantly gossiping about their problems. When will someone give a healthy kick in the rear to the entire system.

ramvaradan

February 18th, 2010, 09:12 PM

That fund crunch shit is pissing me off!!!! If i am right they have wasted well over a couple of thousand crores of tax money on free TV's alone!!!

Of these free-give-aways, even for a moment do not think these are created a welfare scheme. they are machineries that sustain the fringe fat bureaucrats that do the dirty work for them for mid-terms and full-terms. the money spillovers from these schemes fill their pockets. actually, its the other way .. the money leftovers might be used for the actual scheme.

Kewl Batty

February 19th, 2010, 05:55 PM

Rs 24L spent on opening of city subway, 2 flyovers (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Rs-24L-spent-on-opening-of-city-subway-2-flyovers/articleshow/5582215.cms)
Jeeva, TNN, Feb 17, 2010, 05.27am IST

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation spent more than Rs 24 lakh on the inauguration of two flyovers and a subway by chief minister M Karunanidhi, it has been revealed in a reply to a right to information (RTI) petition.

The Cenotaph Road flyover, the Alandur Road flyover and the vehicular subway on Jones Road in Saidapet were inaugurated on December 11, 2009.

According to the reply given by the corporation to V Madhav of Porur last week, Rs 16.45 lakh was spent on the inauguration of the Cenotaph Road flyover. The inauguration of the Alandur Road flyover and the Jones Road subway cost Rs 7.87 lakh though no stage was put up and the chief minister did the honours sitting in his car. The total expenditure on the inaugural ceremonies totalled Rs 24.3 lakh.

“The total amount spent for the functions is almost equal to the ward development fund of a councillor, which is Rs 25 lakh a year. At a time when the government is short of funds for welfare schemes, there should not be any wasteful expenditure,’’ Madhav said.

He has filed another RTI application, asking the corporation to permit him to inspect the bills and vouchers towards the expenditure for the three functions.

Kewl Batty

February 19th, 2010, 05:56 PM

How about that? :|

saurabh85

February 19th, 2010, 06:12 PM

Rs 24L spent on opening of city subway, 2 flyovers (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Rs-24L-spent-on-opening-of-city-subway-2-flyovers/articleshow/5582215.cms)
Jeeva, TNN, Feb 17, 2010, 05.27am IST

I don't even understand why every damn subway, flyover or a strip of new road needs to be inaugurated!:bash: Its not like we have landed a man on the moon or something!

ramvaradan

February 19th, 2010, 07:42 PM

^^

Way to go Madhav... Maybe he could conduct classes to some of us on how to file RTI-s

Leo_r

February 19th, 2010, 08:24 PM

When will someone give a healthy kick in the rear to the entire system.

When You become the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, like in the movie 'Muthalvan'

ChennaiIndian

February 20th, 2010, 04:35 AM

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Villivakkam-subway-will-be-open-by-Aug-Mayor/articleshow/5595213.cms

CHENNAI: Mayor M Subramanian on Friday joined issues with AIADMK supremo and former chief minister J Jayalalithaa over her allegations that the construction of the vehicular subway at Villivakkam had been put in cold storage for more than three years. Jayalalithaa had on Thursday announced a demonstration by her party against the delay in execution near the district collectorate on Saturday.

In an official release, Subramanian criticised the AIADMK leader for failing to take note of the works in progress. "Utility lines have already been shifted at a cost of Rs 1.22 crore in the project site. Most of the work at the northern end has been completed and work is in progress on the southern side. On its part, the railway will complete its works beneath the tracks at Rs 20.76 crore before July and the corporation will lay the approach roads by August," the mayor said.

He took a dig at the AIADMK leader for not making any efforts during her regime, despite the previous council, led by by MK Stalin proposing the project during his stint in the Ripon Buildings. "It was only at the instance of Stalin that the AIADMK could adopt a resolution in 2004. But the project remained a non-starter until the DMK took over the corporation again in 2006," Subramanian said. Sources said it was the Southern Railway that had originally come up with a plan to replace three level crossings with road over bridge and road under bridge at Villivakkam, Basin Bridge-Korukkupet and Chennai Beach-Washermenpet. A formal request was made to the railway in 2001 to include the work in their annual programme, sources said.

"Atleast 18 grounds of land were acquired from 61 persons through legal process and still a lone case is pending in the court against acquisition," Subramanian said.

kannan infratech

February 20th, 2010, 08:39 AM

Source: Thiruvanmiyur flyover and subway project yet to take off (http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/18/stories/2010021860690300.htm)

Is government funding the only option for such projects?
For Metro rail systems, Tolled expressways etc. private players pitch in the Build-operate-transfer mode where they collect revenues from tickets and tolls. But such a revenue source is absent in city road projects. So, what other ways can these projects be taken up to ensure availability of funds? Surely, the government cannot fund everything.

For city based projects, JNNURM funds are available. Provided the Corporation had included the projects and their DPRs in their earlier application for evaluation by TUFISIL / TUFIDCO.

vijayvmail

February 20th, 2010, 04:43 PM

For city based projects, JNNURM funds are available. Provided the Corporation had included the projects and their DPRs in their earlier application for evaluation by TUFISIL / TUFIDCO.

This particular project in thiruvanmiyur was proposed quite some time back.

I guess, even the JNNURM funds are limited. Are there any avenues for private partnerships and investments?

robertashok

February 21st, 2010, 02:34 AM

I think one of condn of JNNURM is , the schemes which have been used earlier in that city should have atleast good track record implementation else they are not going to get it.

ChennaiIndian

February 23rd, 2010, 12:03 AM

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/tirusoolam-subway-cries-light-351

Feb. 21: The absence of power backup arrangement plunges Tirusoolam commuter subway into darkness whenever there is a power failure. As the authorities have not provided any emergency lighting facilities, hundreds of commuters from Tirusoolam station and Chennai international airport are forced to walk more than 1 km to reach the airport, that too by crossing the busy GST Road.
“The 74.5-metres-long subway will be in complete darkness during power failures. Though there were emergency lights earlier, they have not been working for a long time,” said an official of nearby Tirusoolam railway station.
“Passengers cannot even see each other and it is not at all safe for women and the elderly to cross the passage in the dark. Due to this, we avoid using the subway and walk all the way, which is more than 1 km, to reach the Tirusoolam station from the airport compound,” Nisha Rani (name changed), an airline staff, told Deccan Chronicle.
The subway, constructed to help air passengers and airline staff and senior citizens going from the airport to the railway station and vice-versa, also lacks security.
“Recently, we had a meeting with the Airports Authority of India and we are implementing necessary arrangements for greater safety and emergency lighting facilities,” said a National Highway Authority of India official.
“Crossing the GST Road is difficult as there are no speed regulators or traffic signals. We have to literally run across the road,” said Ms Yamini Atma, a development professional in the city.

v4Chennai

February 23rd, 2010, 04:13 AM

TO BE COMPLETED IN 13 MONTHS
Work on Porur flyover to begin this week
Jeeva | TNN

Chennai: The state highways department will begin preliminary works for the flyover at the Arcot Road-Mount Poonamallee High Road junction in Porur this week.
According to official sources, the ground-breaking ceremony for the four-lane, Rs 35-crore flyover will be performed on Thursday and the preliminary works will begin the same day. “We have already issued the work order. An agreement between the contractor and the department was signed last week. The project is scheduled to be completed in 13 months,’’ a senior highways department official told TOI.
The project, formulated in 2005, was supposed to have taken off during 2007 but had to wait for the clearance of the authorities of the Chennai Metro Rail project. But later, even after obtaining that clearance, the highways department had to struggle to begin the project as it could not get contractors to take up the work. Many contractors hesitated saying that the Arcot Road-Mount Poonamallee High Road junction was a highly congested area and that there wouldn’t be adequate place to even unload the construction material or place construction equipment. However, the department finally found an Erode-based contractor after calling for tenders three times.
With an estimated traffic
flow of about 15,000 passenger car units a day at the junction, the flyover will enable motorists to save 15 to 20 minutes. That is the time they now take to cross the junction, even during nonpeak hours. Many people living in the city’s western suburbs earlier preferred the Mount Poonamallee High Road to go to places like Guindy and the airport. But most of them now go through MTH Road and the 100 ft Road to reach Guindy due to the difficulty and wastage of time in crossing the Arcot Road-Mount Poonamallee High Road junction.
“Arcot Road is a narrow bus route and there are a lot of encroachments. During peak hours, vehicles are lined up for about half-a-km. Pedestrians find it difficult to cross. Once the flyover is completed, it will be a relief not only for motorists but also for the residents,” said Sivaraman of Porur.
jeeva.pugazvendan@timesgroup.com
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Shaq

February 26th, 2010, 10:53 PM

2 more to come up in Anna Saalai.

http://www.dinamalar.com/topnewsdetail.asp?news_id=1786

Kewl Batty

February 26th, 2010, 11:19 PM

chennaidesi

February 27th, 2010, 12:21 AM

Elevated highways on Mount Road is not a good idea may be other roads it is O.K.

Kewl Batty

February 27th, 2010, 12:25 AM

^^ Why? You can't build a tube highway too coz there's tube metro coming up. So only option left is elevated road. Do you want to enjoy traffic jams forever?

ChennaiLeader

February 27th, 2010, 02:31 AM

There are some important roads that these two elevated highways will pass over. Do we know if they have plans to have exit and entry ramps? Have they published those designs that CM had a look at?

MyNation

February 27th, 2010, 02:22 PM

^^ A quicky... Instead of the 5 proposed flyovers, 2 elevated expressways will be constructred on Anna Salai.

1. From Walaja Road - Blacker's Road Junction (that is infront of Assembly complex) to Pattullos Road (1.3 km approx)

2. Anna Arivalayam - Saidapet Veterinary Hospital. (3 km approx)

They'll be announced in the coming budget with financing. Works will start after that..]

I am sure the proposed flyover near the new assembly will be completed quickly as u all know the reason...
and i am also sure both the flyovers will have many exit and entry ramps because these will be used frequently by the "VIPs"....

shawman123

February 27th, 2010, 03:16 PM

isn't 1.3km too short for an expressway. That is almost a flyover.

Kewl Batty

February 27th, 2010, 05:01 PM

^^ Yea, thats a flyover only :P

Wat I feel is, instead of ending the 1st one at Pattullos Road junction, they can bring it all the way till Peters Road Junction.

RajBang

February 27th, 2010, 06:01 PM

it will be announced in budget. that is in march. then they will call for tenders. it will take 2 months. may be the work can start in june or july

kodai

February 27th, 2010, 06:14 PM

As chennaidesi says flyovers are not good idea for Mount road. They have to design it taking future into consideration and announce a internationational tender for mount road design

There are beautiful metropolitan highway designs around the world like

http://www.oscarmail.net/dfwfreeways/aerial/downtown/2a_sp366_looking_e_2005-05-30_ADJ_1600.jpg

Below picture, In most of the freeways that go through metropolitan cities, they lower the height of the road and construct all the
intersections above
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/State_Highway_Spur_366_%28Texas%29_1.jpg

:nuts:
^^

Kewl Batty

February 28th, 2010, 02:33 AM

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/958/flyovers.jpg

Karunanidhi seeing the models of proposed flyovers @ Anna Salai.

vijayvmail

February 28th, 2010, 04:53 AM

Karunanidhi seeing the models of proposed flyovers @ Anna Salai.

As you see, they keep talking only about flyover and not elevated expressways. And from the photo it looks as though they are looking at regular flyovers that run through the center of the road. I hope they dont make travelling at ground level, a nightmare with crooked lanes on both sides of the flyover.

Transforming Mount Road into the sort of depressed expressway depicted in photos above requires an extra-ordinary effort. No way we will get something like that. Am not trying to be pessimistic, but I do not see many bold mega projects around the country. Only one or two here and there. Otherwise, we have always taken the safer, shorter (or rather short term) route.

Let them at least give normal flyovers properly without delays and destroying the place. I also do not think there will be any ramps in the 3 km flyover. It'll be for vehicles travelling the entire distance. A Connecting flyover like G.N. Chetty road to Gemini is a remote possibility at the chamiers road junction or near SIET.

ChennaiIndian

February 28th, 2010, 05:03 AM

:cry::cry::cry: Mount Road will not be the same as it has been for a couple of centuries now...these ill-planned flyovers will say "RIP" to our classic Mount Road :bash::bash::bash::bash: that we have seen all through our lives and even in movies of the previous generation.

Those flyover designs are looking like the NH-47 flyovers over small towns and villages. :ohno::ohno: pathetic :nuts:

think_different

February 28th, 2010, 06:25 AM

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Kathir

February 28th, 2010, 07:05 AM

^^

Crap.. I don't see any exit/entry ramps for the junctions.

saysenthil

February 28th, 2010, 11:55 AM

Abs true,

No futuristic designs.... Abs normal... Holds good for max 3 years after construction... But in next 10 years, it might become travelers HELL!!!

robertashok

February 28th, 2010, 12:06 PM

why everytime these experts come up with design which can be done by anybody.

Kathir

February 28th, 2010, 12:22 PM

^^
Funny thing is they explain this (complex?) design to CM/Ministers.
Yeah.. It is very hard to understand a single straight flyover.

ramvaradan

February 28th, 2010, 05:52 PM

IMHO, a complex design does'nt solve the problem always. Mount Rd. is a difficult problem to solve ... first of all, trying an all-encompassing solution will be too disruptive and yet cannot accomodate too far in the future.

My takes :-

1) How about providing humps at the junction so the straight traffic on the AnnaSalai will not have to stop and providing free lefts at the junctions. This is a flyover, still, technically but without the full-fledged array of columns and beams... you'd have ramps @ ends and at the junction you'd the underpass. No Right Turns can be made from AnnaSalai. Make some Jug Handle patterns.

2) Build light monorails .. easy to hop ON or OFF. Monorails will have to be elevated, so made signal free. This is not mass transit but better than the buses.. think of some FOBs for alighting points.

ChennaiIndian

March 1st, 2010, 05:25 AM

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Adambakkam-bridge-by-March-next-year/articleshow/5629668.cms

CHENNAI: The southern suburbs like Velachery, Adambakkam, Ullagaram and St Thomas Mount are soon to see some major development as work on a Rs 15.5-crore bridge at Adambakkam lake, a crucial link for southern sector of the Inner Ring Road (IRR), has begun.

IRR is also known as 100 Feet Road or Jawaharlal Nehru Salai.

After a decade-long struggle with the high-cost land acquisition and subsequent legal hassles, the state highways department has finally managed to get the project going. “It was only recently that we settled the compensatory sum for acquisition. The bridge will be built by March next year,” a senior official said. The six-lane bridge will be 350 metres long and 30 metres wide and MRTS will run through the middle. After a few hundred metres, the rail alignment takes a diversion to move on to St Thomas Mount station.

The original plan, according to officials, was to lay an embankment in the waterbody with culverts to allow water to flow on either side of the bridge. But the highways department changed the design following objections from the Public Works Department (PWD). A high-level highways committee then decided to build the bridge on pillars, so that “the retaining capacity of the tank will not be disturbed.” This was accepted by the PWD a few months ago.

Nevertheless, the full extent of the benefit of this link will be felt only after MRTS lays its piers as part of its expansion programme up to St Thomas Mount Station. “We hope the piers works will be over and black topping of the highway are expected to be completed by June this year,” said a senior official. Based on a traffic study in 1970s, the department envisaged the IRR, connecting the IT corridor, NH-45, NH-4 and NH-5, Tiruvottiyur-Ponneri-Panchetti Road, before reaching Ennore Port.

However, the five-km stretch between GST Road, near Officers Training Academy and Velachery alone was caught in the acquisition wrangles. “The affected parties frequented the court for immediate settlement and to set right the disputes all these years,” the official said. The acquisition alone costs the exchequer more than Rs 60 crore for the entire southern sector, which includes Taramani Link Road up to SRP Tools on Old Mahabalipuram Road.

The highways deaprtment has already built a subway at Thillai Ganga Nagar in Nanganallur, between St Thomas Mount and Palavanthangal railway stations as part of the southern sector. “Formation of the highway will help reduce the travel time to the city limits. The government agencies will have to expedite the work,” says V Ramarao of United Forum of Nanganallur Welfare Association.