{"id":646511,"date":"2025-09-16T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646511"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:42:25","slug":"project-report-ready-for-doubling-of-chengai-arakkonam-railway-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/project-report-ready-for-doubling-of-chengai-arakkonam-railway-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Project report ready for doubling of Chengai-Arakkonam railway corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The draft detailed project report (DPR) for doubling the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam railway corridor, pegged at Rs 1,538.07 crore, has been prepared and is now under review, even as the Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA) convenes a stakeholder meeting this month to align agencies on the project\u2019s next steps. <\/p>\n<p>The 73.5km stretch, currently running at more than 104% of its designed capacity, is a bottleneck in Tamil Nadu\u2019s rail network. Its expansion is central to a planned 192 km circular suburban grid that could transform commuting and freight flows across Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The draft detailed project report (DPR) for doubling the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam railway corridor, pegged at Rs 1,538.07 crore, has been prepared and is now under review, even as the Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA) convenes a stakeholder meeting this month to align agencies on the project\u2019s next steps. The 73.5km stretch, currently running at more than 104% of its designed capacity, is a bottleneck in Tamil Nadu\u2019s rail network. Its expansion is central to a planned 192 km circular suburban grid that could transform commuting and freight flows across Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646511","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}