{"id":654364,"date":"2025-11-28T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=654364"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:24:46","slug":"metro-rails-sharpest-swerve-yet-413m-span-glides-over-kathipara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/metro-rails-sharpest-swerve-yet-413m-span-glides-over-kathipara\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro rail\u2019s sharpest swerve yet: 413m span glides over Kathipara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Chennai Metro Rail Ltd (CMRL) is gearing up for its sharpest turn yet\u2014a dramatic 413-m sweep over Kathipara that promises commuters a joyride along with a bird&#8217;s eye view of the cityscape. This will become a reality when Corridor 5, connecting Madhavaram with Sholinganallur in Phase II, becomes operational.<\/p>\n<p>The trains will take the sharpest turn over the Kathipara flyover above the existing Phase I corridors to join Alandur metro station, while descending from a height of 33m to 27m a speed of 35kmph, thanks to the balanced cantilever structure under construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Chennai Metro Rail Ltd (CMRL) is gearing up for its sharpest turn yet\u2014a dramatic 413-m sweep over Kathipara that promises commuters a joyride along with a bird&#8217;s eye view of the cityscape. This will become a reality when Corridor 5, connecting Madhavaram with Sholinganallur in Phase II, becomes operational. The trains will take the sharpest turn over the Kathipara flyover above the existing Phase I corridors to join Alandur metro station, while descending from a height of 33m to 27m a speed of 35kmph, thanks to the balanced cantilever structure under construction.<\/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-654364","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\/654364","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=654364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}