Chennai Elevated Expressways

[vijayvmail]

Originally Posted by birraj

You are RIGHT. Given their past experience, there is NO WAY they can complete this in 3 years and 1600C. It will probably take 10 years with 10,600 Crores.

This seems to have a very large land aquisition component, which is frightening.

Just the Kathipara flyover took 3 years.

I hope they atleast open this in phases.

[Rasnaboy]

Originally Posted by ramvaradan

Do we know the exact elevated height of the expressway ? I find no mention of that.

From Gandharva's post above (post #77), it's 12 metres high.

[Rasnaboy]

CHENNAI: The road development programme should adopt an inclusive and holistic approach to bring benefits to many instead of a few, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday.

Referring to the rehabilitation and resettlement component of the Rs.1,655-crore Chennai Port-Maduravoyal elevated corridor project, Dr. Singh said 12,000 families of the weaker sections, especially slum dwellers, would be rehabilitated by providing them with alternative shelters. The State government and the Chennai Port Trust had agreed to share equally the cost of land acquisition and rehabilitation and resettlement.

Laying the foundation for the project at Maduravoyal near here, Dr. Singh said: “This project shows that constructing modern highways in urban areas must be organically linked to local development, city planning and landscaping and livelihood opportunities for the weaker sections. I am very happy that the Government of Tamil Nadu, under the leadership of … Chief Minister Dr. Kalaignar Karunanidhi, is paying special attention to all these aspects.”

Noting that the Centre had initiated a programme for four-laning of more than 12,000 km through public-private partnership under Phase III of the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP), the Prime Minister said the government had also approved construction of 1,000 km of expressways under Phase-VI and construction of ring roads, flyovers and bypasses on selected stretches under Phase-VII. The projects were expected to be completed by 2015.

Expressing the government’s intention of encouraging private sector participation in road development through more incentives and facilities, he said all future projects under the NHDP would be executed through the PPP mode.

As for the progress of highway projects in Tamil Nadu, Dr. Singh said the entire stretch of the Golden Quadrilateral and Phase-I of the NHDP to a length of 342 km had been completed. The stretches were being taken up for six-laning. The stretch of the North-South Corridor for 756 km was nearing completion.

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Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/09/stor...0961080100.htm

[kpgopal]

Does anyone know as to how the proposed expressway will clear the grade separator at Koyambedu ?

[Tamizhan]

Originally Posted by birraj

You are RIGHT. Given their past experience, there is NO WAY they can complete this in 3 years and 1600C. It will probably take 10 years with 10,600 Crores.

I came across this innovative contract provision by TxDot (Texas Department of Transportation) in US state of Texas (Austin City) to get the work completed on time or earlier if possible.

If only our government executes contracts like this - we could get our projects done faster

Text from http://www.txdot.gov/project_informa...ction_tech.htm
Parmer Lane/Loop 1 Incentives to Minimize Traffic Delays

We realize that construction may inconvenience the traveling public and are committed to minimizing these impacts. The Parmer Lane/Loop 1 project uses innovative contract provision that create incentives for the contractor to complete the work on time or earlier if possible.
Project Milestones Bonus/Penalties
Milestones are contract provisions for time-critical phases of the project. Each milestone includes:

• a description of the work,
• a timeline for the work, and
• a daily value associated with the road-user costs during that work phase.

If a contractor completes the milestone early, he will receive a bonus. If the contractor fails to meet the milestone deadline, he will be penalized. The bonus or penalty is equal to the daily road-user cost multiplied by the reduction/addition in days. Here are the specific milestones and their bonuses/penalties for this project.

• Milestone 1
  The Loop 1 southbound frontage road will be reduced to one lane from the southbound entrance ramp south of Parmer Lane to Waters Park Rd. to install storm sewers.
  • Time allotted - 15 working days to reopen all the southbound frontage road lanes
  • Bonus/penalty - $5,000/day

• Milestone 2
  The southbound exist to Duval will be closed to finish construction of the new collector/distributor bridge to reconfigure the ramps.
  • Time allotted - 40 working days to open the new bridge, which will be the new Duval exit
  • Bonus/penalty - $10,000/day

• Milestone 3
  The Parmer Lane bridge over Loop 1 will be narrowed to five lanes to complete the widening of the bridge.
  • Time allotted - 82 working days to reopen all lanes
  • Bonus/penalty - $10,000/day

Lane Rentals
"Lane rental" means the contractor is charged a fee for occupying travel lanes to do work. The fee, based on road-user cost, motivates the contractor to minimize the time a lane or combination of lanes is out of service.
Rental rates differ for nighttime and daytime hours, peak hours and non-peak hours. These variable rates encourage the contractor to work when lane rental rates are lower and to be more productive when lanes are closed.
Charges can be applied on daily, hourly or smaller time increments. Lane rentals allow the costs associated with delays and detours to be considered in the project schedule. The costs of keeping a lane closed are then transferred to the contractor through penalties assessed for late openings.
If the contractor accomplishes the work in fewer hours than we have estimated, the contractor will receive the remainder of the estimated fees as a bonus for minimizing traffic impacts.

[Bless]

Interesting but

1. All huddles should be cleared before giving the contracts. This means no cases / stay orders for eviction and people should be more benevolent to move out of the land that needs to construct the flyovers with out creating huddles. which will not happen, even if the people ready to do, the opposition will not let them so easily, even if the project was proposed by the on their previous terms :P

2. The Road usage rentals are there in indian corporation. and their charges are revised last year (I remember reading in The Hindu, will get you the link if possible). and this rate is not just for the construction of the flyovers or other govt project. For any one to keep the construction material on the road (even the private owners, how small they are) they need to get the permission from the corporation and pay the rent for according to the sq feet and for number of days they keep it. But none cares about it as if this rule never exist. But I hope for construction of flyovers or other projects the contractors seeks the permission form the corporation.

finally, there will not be a single bidding for any projects. We might again suffer lacking infrastructure :P

-Bless
WE GET ONLY WHAT WE PAID FOR.

[Bless]

http://www.chennaicorporation.gov.in...ration_act.pdf

Read 214A.

The rules are really interesting and meaningful. (sometimes we don't care about)

-Bless
WE GET ONLY WHAT WE PAID FOR.

[mdvinay]

Soma Enterprise Ltd. got the project

[Rasnaboy]

Details please...

[Into_salem]

Two exit and two entry ramps along the 17.5-km stretch planned

CHENNAI: The feasibility report, submitted by Wilbur Smith Consultants to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for the proposed four-lane elevated expressway from Chennai Port to Maduravoyal on the National Highway 4, has suggested that a toll plaza be set up on the facility near Chetpet.

Another toll plaza would come up as per the suggestion near Maduravoyal.

The project will acquire about 10,000 sq.m of private land and is estimated to displace about 3,600 houses in the slum areas along the Cooum and about 650 houses in non-slum areas.

In order to facilitate fast and easy movement of traffic, the road is elevated and will have only two exit and two entry ramps along its 17.5-km stretch.

One entry ramp from Sivananda Salai is meant to allow traffic from south and north Chennai to access the elevated road. Another entry ramp on the College Road is meant for traffic from Anna Salai via Greams Road. The exit ramp near the Chennai port will allow vehicles to proceed to North and South Chennai while the exit on Spur Tank Road will allow vehicles to connect with Anna Salai via Casa Major Road.

The elevation at the road starting point is about 1 meter and 12 meters at the section near Koyambedu. The expressway will have a toll plaza and will be laid at the cost of Rs.1,655 crore. The foundation stone was laid by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier this month.

http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/28/stor...2858270300.htm

[catick]

Residents seek HC stay on Port corridor project


TIMES NEWS NETWORK


Chennai: A public interest writ petition seeking a stay on the implementation of the 1,655-crore elevated corridor project from Chennai Port to Maduravoyal, has been filed in the Madras high court.
Four Maduravoyal residents, whose land had already been acquired for the Koyambedu-Maduravoyal road expansion project, moved the court, claiming that their lands have again been targeted by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for acquisition.
They contended that in August 2005, their lands were acquired for a road-widening scheme, to complement the Golden Quadrilateral project. “We received the amount and handed over the lands to the highway authorities, who had now taken possession of the lands.” Again, in July 2008, the petitioners noticed certain paint marks on their walls, without information or intimation.
Only then did they come to know that the lands had been identified for the proposed elevated corridor project, for which the prime minister laid the foundation earlier this month. Noting that they had just modified or built new structures on their lands, after a portion of the buildings had been razed for the road expansion project, the residents had sent representations to the highway authorities asking them to reconsider their decision to take over patta lands on which new residential buildings had been constructed.
If the corridor is aligned along the banks of Cooum river there is no need to divest residents of their patta lands, they said, adding that the authorities too need not invest much on acquisition proceedings.
Charging the authorities with ignoring the genuine grievances of the landowners, the petitioners said acquisition proceedings were going ahead mechanically. The matter, listed before the first bench for hearing, could not be taken up on Tuesday and is expected to come up for hearing on Wednesday, said additional advocate-general P Wilson.



TALE OF TWO ROADS


PROJECT: Elevated corridor to connect Chennai Port and Maduravoyal

HURDLE: Residents file PIL in high court against acquisition of their land

PROJECT: Elevated corridor to connect Santhome and Kottivakkam

HURDLE: Environmentalists oppose the project saying it will endanger Olive Ridley turtles







Elevated coast road a threat to turtles, say green activists


B Aravind Kumar | TNN


Chennai: Thirty years of conservation of the critically endangered Olive Ridely turtles will be rendered useless if the elevated corridor connecting Santhome and Kottivakkam comes up over Chennai’s beaches, environmentalists fear.
Pointing out that the elevated corridor would run right through the middle of four fishing hamlets, activists wonder how projects endangering environment are cleared. Apart from the Olive Ridley, the project is also a threat to the fragile marine and micro-organisms dependent on beaches and the coast.
“Conservation of turtles in the nation began on Madras beaches in the 1970s. When we saw the design of the proposed elevated corridor, we shuddered,’’ says Arun, coordinator, Students Sea Turtle Conservation Network (SSTCN). He has been walking the beaches between Besant Nagar and Kottivakkam for more than a decade. The elevated corridor will infringe upon 60% of the work area, he said. “We will have to wind up our efforts,’’ he rues.
Between December and April every year, students and volunteers walk on the beaches every night looking out for eggs of Olive Ridley turtles. If they find any, they relocate them to a safer place. When the turtle hatchlings emerge 45 days later, they are released safely into the sea.
“The elevated corridor will have a huge negative impact on turtles. Already, the movement of hatchlings attracted by light is a major worry,’’ Akila says.
“It will be like destroying a two-decade-old conservation programme in a single stroke,’’ says Supraja Dharini, chairperson, Tree Foundation.“The Olive Ridley turtle is the flagship species for conservation efforts,’’ Supraja adds.
Activists feel the elevated corridor could spell doom to the government’s efforts to restore the lost ecosystem of the Adyar estuary that is being taken up in two phases.



http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily...&login=default

[mdvinay]

Scopeesign, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Operation & Maintenance of New 4- Lane Elevated Road from Chennai Port to Maduravoyal (NH-4), in the State of Tamilnadu under NHDP phase- VII on BOT (Toll) basis.
Length of Project 19 Kms
Estimated Cost 1220 Crores
Concession Period 15 yrs from Appt Date
Construction Period 1095 days
Toll Plaza 2 Nos Km 8+300 (On Elevated Road), Km 13+217-13+520 of NH-4 at ground.

Entry Ramps: 5, At km 1+470 from sivananda salai for a length of 575m, At Km 7+140 from college road for a length of 330m, from NH-4 to elevated road for a length of 423m. , from Km 14.227 to km 14.560, from km 17.200 to km 17.543.( All are 2 Lane Ramps)
Exit Ramps 5, At 0+650 for a length of 530m to Kamrajar Salai, At Km 8+040 to Spur Tank Road for a length of 447m, from elevated road to NH-4 for a length of 427m, from Km 14.227 to km 14.560, from km 17.200 to km 17.543. ( All are 2 Lane Ramps)

[Kewl Batty]

Elevated coast road a threat to turtles, say green activists


B Aravind Kumar | TNN


Chennai: Thirty years of conservation of the critically endangered Olive Ridely turtles will be rendered useless if the elevated corridor connecting Santhome and Kottivakkam comes up over Chennai’s beaches, environmentalists fear.
Pointing out that the elevated corridor would run right through the middle of four fishing hamlets, activists wonder how projects endangering environment are cleared. Apart from the Olive Ridley, the project is also a threat to the fragile marine and micro-organisms dependent on beaches and the coast.
“Conservation of turtles in the nation began on Madras beaches in the 1970s. When we saw the design of the proposed elevated corridor, we shuddered,’’ says Arun, coordinator, Students Sea Turtle Conservation Network (SSTCN). He has been walking the beaches between Besant Nagar and Kottivakkam for more than a decade. The elevated corridor will infringe upon 60% of the work area, he said. “We will have to wind up our efforts,’’ he rues.
Between December and April every year, students and volunteers walk on the beaches every night looking out for eggs of Olive Ridley turtles. If they find any, they relocate them to a safer place. When the turtle hatchlings emerge 45 days later, they are released safely into the sea.
“The elevated corridor will have a huge negative impact on turtles. Already, the movement of hatchlings attracted by light is a major worry,’’ Akila says.
“It will be like destroying a two-decade-old conservation programme in a single stroke,’’ says Supraja Dharini, chairperson, Tree Foundation.“The Olive Ridley turtle is the flagship species for conservation efforts,’’ Supraja adds.
Activists feel the elevated corridor could spell doom to the government’s efforts to restore the lost ecosystem of the Adyar estuary that is being taken up in two phases.



http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily...&login=default

This is was exactly i was pointing at! At the flyover project section for the negative side of the corridor!! Olive turtles cannot be compensated for the sake of elevated corridors!

There must another way to connect Marina and ECR! We should be example to other cities not to spoil ecosystems!!

[Kewl Batty]

Can Moderators change the name of the thread to "Chennai Elevated Expressways" instead of the present one which says "Chennai Elevated Expressway-port to Madhuravoyal NHAI implementatio"????

We have around 10 Expressways on the anvil and 3 Freight corridors. so The title should be changed. Mods plzz change the name!

Work on the 1st corridor has already started I guess, the 2nd one Marina to ECR is gonna start.

[Rasnaboy]

Seconded...

[monyaam]

deleted.

[Rasnaboy]

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the National Highways Authority of India to consider a representation, seeking reconsideration of the proposed acquisition of land from Koyambedu to Maduravoyal for the elevated corridor from the Chennai port to Maduravoyal, and pass orders in a week.

Justice K. Suguna passed the order on a writ petition filed by L. Gunasekaran of Maduravoyal and three others.

The plea

In the petition, filed by counsel R. Karthikeyan, the petitioners submitted that the National Highways Department recently acquired land from Koyambedu to Maduravoyal on both sides of EVR Salai for widening the highway and improving access to the Golden Quadrilateral corridor. A notification was published, value of the land determined and payment made to owners during 2007-08. The land was demarcated and the petitioners, along with others, handed over their land to the authorities. Mr. Gunasekaran said that after the acquisition, the owners, including himself, renovated the buildings. Some demolished entire structures and constructed multi-storey buildings on the patta land. In July last year, he found a mark painted in the building by the authorities without any intimation to the landowners. Enquiries revealed that the NHAI proposed to construct an elevated corridor. A batch of representations, dated November last, was forwarded to the authorities to reconsider the proposal.

Proof enclosed


The judge said the stand of Additional Advocate-General P. Wilson was that since no notification had been issued under section 3 (a) of the National Highways Act, the question of considering the representation as on date did not arise. But, as rightly pointed out by counsel for the petitioner, proof for the same had been enclosed. The foundation had been laid for the project.

Formalities

She said that when steps had been taken even without the respondents — the competent authority and Special DRO (LA), National Highways, Poonamallee; the competent authority, the State Highways Department and the National Highways Department, Poonamallee; the Tiruvallur Collector and the NHAI — complying with the formalities under the relevant Act, the representation of the petitioners had to be considered and orders passed.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/29/stor...2959270400.htm

[vijayvmail]

Originally Posted by Into_salem

Two exit and two entry ramps along the 17.5-km stretch planned

In order to facilitate fast and easy movement of traffic, the road is elevated and will have only two exit and two entry ramps along its 17.5-km stretch.

Originally Posted by mdvinay

Scope: Design, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Operation & Maintenance of New 4- Lane Elevated Road from Chennai Port to Maduravoyal (NH-4), in the State of Tamilnadu under NHDP phase- VII on BOT (Toll) basis.

Entry Ramps: 5, At km 1+470 from sivananda salai for a length of 575m, At Km 7+140 from college road for a length of 330m, from NH-4 to elevated road for a length of 423m. , from Km 14.227 to km 14.560, from km 17.200 to km 17.543.( All are 2 Lane Ramps)
Exit Ramps 5, At 0+650 for a length of 530m to Kamrajar Salai, At Km 8+040 to Spur Tank Road for a length of 447m, from elevated road to NH-4 for a length of 427m, from Km 14.227 to km 14.560, from km 17.200 to km 17.543. ( All are 2 Lane Ramps)

Do both the above items refer to the same road project? One says that there will be just 2 entry and exit ramps. The other one puts the count at 5 ???

Just for understanding - If we have just two entry / exits for almost 20 kms, can we handle any accidents / any road blocks on the corridor? What would happen if say, a truck breaks down on top of the corridor, blocking one / more lanes. Then won't it become a traffic nightmare? Plus, the rescue tow vehicles will find it difficult to reach the truck. Is there anything about additional shoulders / lanes at regular intervals?

[dis.agree]

Originally Posted by vijayvmail

Do both the above items refer to the same road project? One says that there will be just 2 entry and exit ramps. The other one puts the count at 5 ???

Just for understanding - If we have just two entry / exits for almost 20 kms, can we handle any accidents / any road blocks on the corridor? What would happen if say, a truck breaks down on top of the corridor, blocking one / more lanes. Then won't it become a traffic nightmare? Plus, the rescue tow vehicles will find it difficult to reach the truck. Is there anything about additional shoulders / lanes at regular intervals?

accident spot could be reached fast from opposite direction.

[mdvinay]

According to the concession agreement there will be 5 entry and exit ramps..