IT Corridor Road project

[Babji]

Some of the Major SEZ s on the IT Expressway:

Nokia India Pvt Ltd: number of employees: 20,000
Flextronics: number of employees: 5,000 in 101.2 hectare SEZ
ETL Infrastructure Services Ltd: about 45,000 people in 10.57 hectare (IT/ITES SEZ).

The IT Expressway is going to become busy very soon.

would anyone know approx how many ppl work at TIDEL Park...

[jyas]

CHENNAI: The Highways Department has initiated steps to widen link roads connecting the information technology corridor (Old Mamallapuram Road, OMR) and the entertainment corridor (East Coast Road, ECR). In the next 10 days, the department will re-lay the link road and take up patch works as a temporary measure.

The department had prioritised the Sholinganallur road to connect East Coast Road and Old Mamallapuram Road. Official sources told The Hindu on Wednesday that re-tendering had to be initiated in view of the increase in the price of bitumen and the delay in land acquisition.

The proposed Sholinganallur link would be a four-lane carriageway. It will be an important connection given that vehicular traffic, especially buses/coaches that transport the staff of IT companies round the clock, has increased.

And on weekends, this road is optimally used by holiday crowd in view of the two-way vehicular traffic to ECR and OMR to connect Velachery and beyond and also a popular temple located on the link road.

The department has embarked on patch works on this link road. The Government is planning to integrate the two corridors to ensure better road connectivity, considering the increasing leisure/amusement-related activities sparked by the IT boom.

On widening East Coast Road, the sources said the Government was considering whether it could "alter the present alignment ... without making any major demolitions of encroachments" and seek legal remedy to take this corrective action, and geometrics changes of the present ECR.

"The Government is also examining the feasibility of effecting changes in the toll collection on ECR after ... widening the road," the sources said.

The sources said the Highways Department was keen on improving the roads connecting Velachery and the Thoraipakkam-Pallikaranai road.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/18/stor...1815500700.htm

[Anniyan]

Originally Posted by Babji

Major SEZ s on the IT Expressway:

Nokia India Pvt Ltd: number of employees: 20,000
Flextronics: number of employees: 5,000 in 101.2 hectare SEZ
ETL Infrastructure Services Ltd (IT/ITES SEZ): about 45,000 people in 10.57 hectare

The IT Expressway is going to become busy very soon.

would anyone know approx how many ppl work at TIDEL Park...

Nokia and Flextronics SEZs are not on the IT Corridor, they are near Sriperdumbudur, about 40 km west of Chennai.

i cannot believe that 45,000 people work in ETL Infrastructure Services Ltd SEZ(Chennai One Tech Park).

[Babji]

Originally Posted by Anniyan

Nokia and Flextronics SEZs are not on the IT Corridor, they are near Sriperdumbudur, about 40 km west of Chennai.

i cannot believe that 45,000 people work in ETL Infrastructure Services Ltd (Chennai One Tech Park).

I guess, 45,000 is the projected capacity at ETL Infrastructure Services Ltd.

[Anniyan]

Originally Posted by Babji

Which is the road that connects Sriperdumbudur to Chennai City...

Chennai-Bangalore national highway.

The other road which connects Sriperumbudur with Chennai suburban area(near Mahindra Worldcity) is Vandalur - Kanchipuram road which is being converted into a six lane highway by the state govt. I dont know what is the status of the work now.

[Anniyan]

Originally Posted by Babji

I guess, 45,000 is the projected capacity at ETL Infrastructure Services Ltd.

Tidel Park with a built up space of 1.28 million sq ft has over 12,000 people.

ETL's Tech park is just 6.5 lakh sq ft, so it should have less than 7000 people.

[Babji]

self deleted.

[Babji]

could be a typo. source: ...

... Of the 237 formally approved SEZs across the country, 25 are from Tamil Nadu . Among the 166 SEZs, which have got in-principle approvals, 12 are from the state. Majority of these SEZs are situated in and around Chennai.

Nokia India Pvt Ltd... 85-hectare telecom and IT hardware SEZ: total number of employees... 20,000

Flextronics... 5,000 employees... 101.2 hectare SEZ

About 45,000 people are expected to work in the 10.57 hectare IT/ITES SEZ, being developed by ETL Infrastructure Services Ltd...

URL: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_f...tent_id=147024

[Babji]

Originally Posted by Anniyan

Bus Stop goes Digital ....

This is a wonderful idea.
I recently (1-2 weeks ago) heard over the radio that the NewYork Metro (Bus) is planning a similar system. They are going to monitor the bus location thru GPS periodically. They will install elctronic display screens at the bus stops. they will display the current location of the bus and expected time of arrival (at each of the bus stops on its route). so, commuters would know how long they should wait at the bus stop in order to board the bus. (chances are, NY Metro may be using the same software, developed at International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore).
it is likely to be implemented some time this year.

[Fusionist]

About the highway issue, I don't see the necessity for a 14 lane ( let alone 20 ) lane highway anywehre in India. I don't foresee building such mamoth highways as a solution. India has an extensive railway network ( which carries bulk of the freight acrosos the nation ) a thriving airline industry ( where even second tier cities are well connected ), a growing and ever expanding urban public transport network ( MRTS/metro/BRTS ). Building a transportation system that suits entirely cars perhaps is not the right way. American cities and motorways were built predominantly having the car in mind, a trend that is widely being replaced by building public/integrated transport models.

I think the European transportation model as opposed to the American one, is a better example for India to innovate upon. The issues they face are similar to that of India- old cities with narrow roads, public transportation, higher population density etc.

[Naga_Solidus]

Keep in mind, however, that even with the European model, high-speed road transport cannot be neglected (witness Madrid, for example).

[arijeetb]

Originally Posted by jyas

CHENNAI: The Highways Department has initiated steps to widen link roads connecting the information technology corridor (Old Mamallapuram Road, OMR) and the entertainment corridor (East Coast Road, ECR). In the next 10 days, the department will re-lay the link road and take up patch works as a temporary measure.

The department had prioritised the Sholinganallur road to connect East Coast Road and Old Mamallapuram Road. Official sources told The Hindu on Wednesday that re-tendering had to be initiated in view of the increase in the price of bitumen and the delay in land acquisition.

The proposed Sholinganallur link would be a four-lane carriageway. It will be an important connection given that vehicular traffic, especially buses/coaches that transport the staff of IT companies round the clock, has increased.

And on weekends, this road is optimally used by holiday crowd in view of the two-way vehicular traffic to ECR and OMR to connect Velachery and beyond and also a popular temple located on the link road.

The department has embarked on patch works on this link road. The Government is planning to integrate the two corridors to ensure better road connectivity, considering the increasing leisure/amusement-related activities sparked by the IT boom.

On widening East Coast Road, the sources said the Government was considering whether it could "alter the present alignment ... without making any major demolitions of encroachments" and seek legal remedy to take this corrective action, and geometrics changes of the present ECR.

"The Government is also examining the feasibility of effecting changes in the toll collection on ECR after ... widening the road," the sources said.

The sources said the Highways Department was keen on improving the roads connecting Velachery and the Thoraipakkam-Pallikaranai road.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/18/stor...1815500700.htm

It is vital that these link roads are fully done with along with the completion of the corridor...

[Judish Raj]

Originally Posted by Anniyan

Tidel Park with a built up space of 1.28 million sq ft has over 12,000 people.

ETL's Tech park is just 6.5 lakh sq ft, so it should have less than 7000 people.

ETL's Tech Park is 1.1 Mn Sq Feet. It is the building with largest base plate in Chennai of 1.28 lakh sq feet and is 9 floors tall. It will employee around 11k when completed. Now Flextronics software had filled up around 3 lakh sq feet.

[kannan infratech]

Originally Posted by Anniyan

Tidel Park with a built up space of 1.28 million sq ft has over 12,000 people.

ETL's Tech park is just 6.5 lakh sq ft, so it should have less than 7000 people.

ETL Chennai 1 (Phase I) has 12 lakhs sft office space (in 5 acres). Phase II will have more than 15 lakhs sft (in 6 acres). Totally the site is 25 + acres and the whole area has been declared as IT SEZ. Min 60% should be used as IT space.

Head count for IT can be taken as 100 sft per person. For ITES / BPO, it will be 60 to 75 sft per person. In Call Centres it can be 40 to 50 sft per persom.

[ferrari_fan]

an update - work has restarted at a frenetic pace from the SRP Tools junction southwards, and close to a kilometer has been flattened out and the foundation for the new road has been laid..

equipment is stationed in this stretch 24 hours and more is arriving by the hour..

one half of the road has been closed to traffic and the bluemetal-mud foundation layer has been laid and rolled.. it's now ready for the laying of tar road..

at this kind of pace i expect another 3 kms of the road (except service lanes) to be complete by end March..

unfortunately i have no pics because my camera conked out, but i'll get some as soon as we replace our camera..

[arijeetb]

Originally Posted by ferrari_fan

an update - work has restarted at a frenetic pace from the SRP Tools junction southwards, and close to a kilometer has been flattened out and the foundation for the new road has been laid..

equipment is stationed in this stretch 24 hours and more is arriving by the hour..

one half of the road has been closed to traffic and the bluemetal-mud foundation layer has been laid and rolled.. it's now ready for the laying of tar road..

at this kind of pace i expect another 3 kms of the road (except service lanes) to be complete by end March..

unfortunately i have no pics because my camera conked out, but i'll get some as soon as we replace our camera..

Nice to know that work has picked up momentum. This means the expressway is complete till SRP tools turning , am I right?

[ferrari_fan]

yup - that's the initial 3 km stretch that has been opened to traffic for some time now..

[senty]

Originally Posted by ferrari_fan

yup - that's the initial 3 km stretch that has been opened to traffic for some time now..

Is the stretch from Tidel to SRP is also complete? I mean, few months back, the service lane and other stuffs are not completed. Or is it in the same condition?

[wcgokul]

i think that is the initial stretch ferrari had mentioned earlier.....

[ferrari_fan]

indeed!

and @ senty : yeah, it's in much the same state, with most of the service lane work beyond NIFT still to be completed, although they have begun working on that as well..