Chennai Traffic Management

[PlaneMad]

TNUDP details for chennai http://www.cmdachennai.org/design/tn...component.html

[PlaneMad]

3 proposed flyovers:

1>Combined Flyover at Annasalai for General Patters road junction and Spencers Junction

2>Combined Flyover at Annasalai from Eldams road junction to C.I.T.Nagar 1st main road

3>Grade Separator at the twin junctions on Periyar EVR Salai at Anna Nagar Arch

[ferrari_fan]

what'll be the time-frame for these proposed flyovers? would anyone here know? i guess these aren't yet finalised right?

[arijeetb]

Originally Posted by PlaneMad

3 proposed flyovers:

1>Combined Flyover at Annasalai for General Patters road junction and Spencers Junction

Is this flyover from Thousand lights to Spencers ?

[ferrari_fan]

no - it'll be from somewhere near Devi Theatre to just after Spencers from what i can make out..

General Patters road junction is north of Spencers, while 1000 Lights is south-west..

[Balas]

Infosys Chennai successfully hosts IT Highway Task Force meet
April 3 , 2007









With the commute to office becoming increasingly challenging due to peak-hour traffic congestion, road construction, etc., Infoscions from Chennai have taken the first step to proactively changing this situation.



The IT Highway at Chennai houses more than 40 different companies, schools and colleges; thousands of commuters use this road on a daily basis. Construction of the six-lane highway, which began a couple of years ago, was not progressing at the speed at which it was supposed to, and employees were bearing the brunt of traveling on such roads.



Infoscions from Chennai took up this challenge and formed a IT Highway Task Force, comprising like-minded Infoscions and representatives from various other companies on the IT Highway. They started meeting Government representatives with their queries / suggestions and have implemented a few radical changes since.



Infosys hosted one of the most well-attended meetings of all the company representatives and government officials on March 30. The meeting was attended by Mr. Balasubramanian, Managing Director, Metropolitan Transport Corporation; Mr. Kannan – Head Operations, TNRDC and Mr. Kandaswamy – Asst.Commissioner of Police, Traffic. We also had representation from companies like Wipro, Cognizant, TCS, Satyam, US Technologies, Alfon Systems, Aspire Systems, Standard Chartered, Patni, Hexaware, FL Smidth & Xansa.





Several points and suggestions were discussed, apart from the individual presentations by the speakers. The meeting lasted for close to two hours.



Some of the important action items are listed below…Phase 2 of the IT Highway till Siruseri will be completed by August 2007
Foot-over bridges are being constructed at vantage points
A bus bay which can house close to 1,000 buses is coming up at Sholinganallur
The work on arterial roads towards Tambaram & ECR are also being taken up by TNRDC
The request for posting additional traffic police on the IT Highway has been readily accepted.
MTC has promised to increase the night service buses on the IT Highway. The request to increase the regular frequency will also be worked out. They would also need data from IT companies to this effect.
MTC has also volunteered to conduct safety programs for the bus drivers of all IT companies, along with the Traffic Police.
Request for AC buses on the IT highway is being considered by MTC
MTC & the Traffic Police have also requested IT companies to increase awareness on road safety among the localites.


On the whole it was an enriching experience for the members involved. The Task Force will monitor the progress on all the above-mentioned points and other action items on a fortnightly basis.

[nsantha2]

There's some talk of making the Veeranam Bypass Road into a one way. There is also a lot of discussion going on in the IT Expressway thread about traffic management solutions to issues along OMR and nearby roads.

Any ideas/contributions?

[gvijayan]

Originally Posted by nsantha2

There's some talk of making the Veeranam Bypass Road into a one way. There is also a lot of discussion going on in the IT Expressway thread about traffic management solutions to issues along OMR and nearby roads.

Any ideas/contributions?

It would be better to widen the Veeranam bye-pass road is widened, instead of making one-way. If it is made one-way, commuters will need to use the IT Highway for the other way of travel, which will be 4-5 kilometers more.

[WillyWick]

but is there land available in the byepass road for it to be acquired?

There are these huge tech parks and cts on either side.

[gvijayan]

Originally Posted by WillyWick

but is there land available in the byepass road for it to be acquired?

There are these huge tech parks and cts on either side.

Six-lane is not possible. But there is definitely room for a four-lane.

[arijeetb]

Originally Posted by ferrari_fan

no - it'll be from somewhere near Devi Theatre to just after Spencers from what i can make out..

General Patters road junction is north of Spencers, while 1000 Lights is south-west..

Thanks..but does this not conflict with the alignment of the metro ? Guess a flyover can be done away with if it falls in the path of the metro

[nsantha2]

Originally Posted by arijeetb

Thanks..but does this not conflict with the alignment of the metro ? Guess a flyover can be done away with if it falls in the path of the metro

Do you mean MRTS or Metro? I haven't seen anything in the news (recently) about the Chennai Metro (the one that DMRC is preparing the project report for).

[arijeetb]

Originally Posted by nsantha2

Do you mean MRTS or Metro? I haven't seen anything in the news (recently) about the Chennai Metro (the one that DMRC is preparing the project report for).

There was a report on the alignment of the metro rail and that it would be running along Mount Rd

[ferrari_fan]

maybe it'll be underground in that stretch?

in fact the latest i heard was that they were planning to make the entire line underground..

[prakstar]

There has been lot of talks about desilting and cleaning of Chennai's waterways. If this happens, is it possible to have water based metro transportation. We have the cooum running parallel to the P.H. Road, we can have points where passengers can be picked up or dropped off. I guess this could reduce the road traffic and maynot be as expensive as Metro. I am not against metro rail but i just wanna know we have this resource why are'nt we using it. The water based transportation could even be faster than road considering the traffic of Chennai.

Hope i dont sound overly stupid!!!!

[Naga_Solidus]

Water-based public transport is actually a great idea for places that have significant water channels, since it helps reduce road traffic without spending as much money on rail transport. Brisbane, AU's Citycat is a great example of a successful water-bases PT system.

[prakstar]

Originally Posted by Naga_Solidus

Water-based public transport is actually a great idea for places that have significant water channels, since it helps reduce road traffic without spending as much money on rail transport. Brisbane, AU's Citycat is a great example of a successful water-bases PT system.

Thanks for the acknowledgement Naga, If you look at Chennai city we have 2 rivers Adyar and Cooum running west-east and the buckingham canal which runs north south. The water ways covers many important localities of Chennai. Infact during the late 50s and early 60's there was a water based transportation in Buckingham canal and cooum, would'nt it be worth revisiting this option.

This i feel would complement the Metro, BRTS and MRTS. In roder to reduce road conjession, MTC can concentrate on operating feeder services between rail and water entry/exit points and leave the long commute to metro and water based transportation wherever it is available.

For example. The cooum runs could connect koyambed jn - central via egmore, anna nagar, kilpauk etc If we run ferry services regularly, it can reduce the rush in buses. Similarly adyar to saidapet-poonamallee.

[ranga]

Originally Posted by prakstar

Thanks for the acknowledgement Naga, If you look at Chennai city we have 2 rivers Adyar and Cooum running west-east and the buckingham canal which runs north south. The water ways covers many important localities of Chennai. Infact during the late 50s and early 60's there was a water based transportation in Buckingham canal and cooum, would'nt it be worth revisiting this option.

This i feel would complement the Metro, BRTS and MRTS. In roder to reduce road conjession, MTC can concentrate on operating feeder services between rail and water entry/exit points and leave the long commute to metro and water based transportation wherever it is available.

For example. The cooum runs could connect koyambed jn - central via egmore, anna nagar, kilpauk etc If we run ferry services regularly, it can reduce the rush in buses. Similarly adyar to saidapet-poonamallee.

All the waterways in Chennai have become" sakadais".Earlier, cooum cleaning projects had led to more corruption and less of cleaning.I had seen the clean waterways in the 50's and wonder it will ever become the same way again.

[prakstar]

Yeah corruption, petty politics and vested interests are screwing up the city. MRTS is delayed by years, Metro project is yet to take off , Airport project is messed up, Road projects delayed, Desilting and cleanup of water ways have been accounted on books but no changes are visible to the naked eye etc etc.

For all this we only get excuses and passin of buck from the authorities or the famous never ending "on discussion stage". Our politicians and beurocrats ensure that Chennai soon turns into an unliveable overcrowded stinky slum.

But still they'll conduct meetings and come and beg shamelessly during elections and the cycle will repeat

[Kingmaker]

Actually its a great idea. I myself thought about it many times. Just look at this map. Most of the major places are reachable through the Adyar and Cooum waterways. Buckingham canal is not clearly seen in the map though. But it could also serve as a RTS, parallel to the OMR.



Moreover, it would also improve tourism and services to some extent. But unfortunately it is not going to happen.