{"id":454310,"date":"2021-12-06T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454310"},"modified":"2021-12-06T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:39:06","slug":"chennai-metro-rail-gives-priority-to-core-areas-for-phase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-metro-rail-gives-priority-to-core-areas-for-phase-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai: Metro rail gives priority to core areas for Phase 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: A 26km metro rail corridor from Light House to Poonamallee could get ready much before the rest of Phase 2 corridors, as preliminary work is in full swing with CMRL identifying a firm to lay tracks through some of the city&#8217;s busiest areas.<br \/>\nThe stretch will link some of the city&#8217;s core localities such as Mylapore, T Nagar and Vadapalani with popular but poorly-connected western suburbs such as Porur and Poonamallee. Recently, IRCON International, which is under the Indian Railways, was identified as the lowest bidder for a tender to lay tracks along the corridor. The corridor is part of the 118.9km three-corridor Phase 2 metro rail project, which has a 2025 deadline.<br \/>\nCMRL officials had already given priority to get the stretch between Porur and Poonamallee on the Light House-Poonamallee corridor ready first, with work on an elevated line and a viaduct already having taken off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: A 26km metro rail corridor from Light House to Poonamallee could get ready much before the rest of Phase 2 corridors, as preliminary work is in full swing with CMRL identifying a firm to lay tracks through some of the city&#8217;s busiest areas. The stretch will link some of the city&#8217;s core localities such as Mylapore, T Nagar and Vadapalani with popular but poorly-connected western suburbs such as Porur and Poonamallee. Recently, IRCON International, which is under the Indian Railways, was identified as the lowest bidder for a tender to lay tracks along the corridor. The corridor is part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}