Metro Rail work will be shifted from Nandanam
Posted on: 27/Dec/2012 3:26:49 PM
Now anna salai will be handling the metro rail project where the Chamiers Road station is being built in front of the Poultry Research Centre. Traffic will be routed over the portion of road where preliminary work to excavate soil for the station has been completed. The stretch of road that was a work site teeming with heavy machines and cranes over the last few months has been black-topped. A few final works are underway to make the stretch motorable. Readying the work site for vehicle movement began a couple of weeks ago soon after wall work was completed.
The walls, 20 metres deep and approximately 200 metres long, were being sunk at places where underground stations are coming up, said a senior metro rail official. The walls will prevent the edges from caving in or collapsing when the road is dug more than 20 metres to build underground stations. Additional reinforcement is being planned at locations where tunnel boring machines will be lowered. Metro rail is also gearing to start boring tunnels at Saidapet. Machines are being assembled so that boring can begin to make a tunnel towards Nandanam. This stretch is part of the Washermanpet-Saidapet underground portion of the Washermanpet-Central-Airport line.
