No new Metro lines in more than a year
Posted on: 01/Sep/2016 11:35:49 AM
The Chennai Metro Rail Limited, or CRML, has not opened up new lines for more than a year ago, since the opening of the Koyambedu - Alandur line. Reason being, trains are ready but the lines are not.
Sources say that of the 42 rakes needed to operate services on the 45km network, Alstom has delivered 37 rakes. However, only nine rakes are being used to operate trains on the Koyambedu-Alandur elevated line. In early July, CMRL received its 37th train at its depot at Koyambedu. More than 25 new trains are under various stages of testing. Rakes, each comprising four cars, are being delivered one after another and being tested, but the opening of the lines are behind schedule. The 9km stretch between Little Mount and Airport was scheduled to be opened for public in mid-August, but it remains a work in progress despite final clearance from the commissioner of metro rail safety.
