{"id":653644,"date":"2025-11-24T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=653644"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:20:25","slug":"chennais-bullet-train-dream-inches-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennais-bullet-train-dream-inches-closer-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai\u2019s bullet train dream inches closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The proposed 778-km Hyderabad- Chennai high-speed rail corridor, a project that will reshape inter-city travel, has moved a step closer to reality with the South Central Railway submitting the final alignment to be included in the Detailed Project Report (DPR) to the Tamil Nadu government and seeking approvals to keep the survey work on track. I Jayakumar, member secretary of the Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA), told TNIE that the DPR for the highspeed rail corridor will be finalised within a month after the state government grants its approval. At Tamil Nadu\u2019s request, the alignment has been revised to include a station at Tirupati, replacing the earlier plan to pass through Gudur, Jayakumar added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The proposed 778-km Hyderabad- Chennai high-speed rail corridor, a project that will reshape inter-city travel, has moved a step closer to reality with the South Central Railway submitting the final alignment to be included in the Detailed Project Report (DPR) to the Tamil Nadu government and seeking approvals to keep the survey work on track. I Jayakumar, member secretary of the Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA), told TNIE that the DPR for the highspeed rail corridor will be finalised within a month after the state government grants its approval. At Tamil Nadu\u2019s request, the alignment has been revised [&hellip;]<\/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-653644","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\/653644","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=653644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}