{"id":658529,"date":"2026-02-09T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658529"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:23:10","slug":"metros-elevated-corridors-to-be-completed-by-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/metros-elevated-corridors-to-be-completed-by-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro\u2019s elevated corridors to be completed by 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: City motorists may have to contend with narrowed roads, blocked stretches and slow-moving traffic for at least one more year, as Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) targets completion of nearly 40km of elevated corridors under Phase 2 by March 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Including the nearly 28km planned for commissioning this year, close to 90% of the 74km elevated alignment of the 116.1km Phase 2 network would be operational. If CMRL&#8217;s construction plan stays on schedule, several major arterial roads could be cleared of barricades by next year, marking completion of more than 50% of the overall Phase-2 project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: City motorists may have to contend with narrowed roads, blocked stretches and slow-moving traffic for at least one more year, as Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) targets completion of nearly 40km of elevated corridors under Phase 2 by March 2027. Including the nearly 28km planned for commissioning this year, close to 90% of the 74km elevated alignment of the 116.1km Phase 2 network would be operational. If CMRL&#8217;s construction plan stays on schedule, several major arterial roads could be cleared of barricades by next year, marking completion of more than 50% of the overall Phase-2 project.<\/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-658529","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\/658529","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=658529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}