Rohit_K wrote:Chennai’s Central Station to Become a Transport Hub
When civil work on the station is completed in late 2016, it’ll offer urban intermodal integration through a series of skywalks and pedestrian at-grade crossings. The metro will connect with buses (local, inter-state) and trains (Indian Railways at Central Station, MRTS at Park Town & Suburban at Park Station)
new construction images can be found here on this page. Sorry, didn't want to post them in-line.
http://themetrorailguy.com/2015/08/20/c ... sport-hub/
Not sure what's the hang up, so here goes:
Source: Metro Rail guy, copyright attributed to Afcons Infra Ltd.
Source: Metro Rail guy, copyright attributed to Afcons Infra Ltd.
There are a few more on the page, but these seemed to best show the scale of work in building what could turn out to be the
largest underground metro station in India with 2 levels of tracks underground, akin to the Connaught Place station in Delhi.
Here are the list of landmarks that will be connected from this station off the bat (I am going into some detail so folks from out of town can understand the amount of inter-connectivity this metro station and the network will bring):
From Central, through metro:
- Metro to CMBT, the mofussil bus terminal at Koyambedu (Line 2)
- Metro to Egmore station (one stop away from the Central metro) and connect to south bound mofussil trains. (Line 2).
- Metro to Intl Airport (Line 1).
- Metro to St Thomas Mount (Line 2, Line 1) which will connect to suburban trains bound for Tambaram and the other end of the MRTS line. Line1 also connects to the suburban line at Guindy, one stop earlier. Tambaram will also be the site of Chennai's 3rd rail terminal after Central and Egmore, so this inter-modal connectivity will help passengers going out of town.
- Metro to Washermanpet (Line 1) connecting to the railway station there, which has some suburban trains from Chennai Beach to Arrakonam/Gummidipoondi. This is one stop away from Royapuram, in case the rail terminal there materializes. This line is further planned to go up to Tiruvottiyur.
- Metro to the old CBD of Chennai, i.e. Mount Road/Anna Salai (line 1).
- Stanley Hospital and medical college (right next to Washermanpet metro hub), the new super-speciality hospital (right next to Chintadripet metro), and Apollo hospital (Thousand Lights/Greams road metro) (all on Line 1)
Central station itself links the following on site, hopefully with better foot connectivity:
- Madras Park station for suburban trains to Tambaram/Chengalpet/Kanchi
- Park Town station for MRTS trains to Chepauk stadium, Mylapore, Tidel Park/(start of) IT corridor, Velachery and St Thomas Mount R.S. (last under construction).
- Central Moore market complex station for suburban trains to Avadi, Tiruvallur, Arakkonam/Tiruttani, and Gummidipoondi/Sullurpeta (for Sriharikota).
- Central station itself with long distance trains.
- MTC buses that criss-cross the city and connect all corners quite extensively. (That the buses are old and battered is a different issue though)
- Ripon Building (seat of Chennai Corporation), Southern Railway HQ, Govt General Hospital, Madras Medical College.
Lastly, the MTC network itself is quite formidable and has buses serving the local areas from various locations of the metro and suburban. For example, Saidapet (suburban+metro), Guindy(suburban+metro), Alandur(2 lines of metro), Ashok Pillar (metro line 2), Vadapalani (metro line 2), Koyambedu (metro line 2), Thirumangalam (metro line 2), Egmore (metro line 2), Teynampet (metro line 1), LIC (metro line 1), Central (see above), High Court (metro line 1), and Vallalar Nagar/Mint/Washermanpet (metro line 1) are big bus hubs in their own right. So the metro stations at these locations will enable more passenger connectivity.