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Status of Madhavaram and Kilambakkam Bus Terminus Constructions
Posted on: 25/May/2018 1:23:52 PM
The Construction of the Madhavaram Intercity Bus terminus was completed and ready for public transportation. Officials said the Madhavaram Bus terminus is set to be inaugurated in a month and it has been built over an area eight acres. The construction was completed at a cost of Rs 95 Crore.
Madhavaram Bus terminus will accommodate 100 buses at any given time and operates 315 bus services to Nellore, Vijayawada, Tirupathi, Kurnool, Puttaparthi, Hyderabad, Bhadrachalam and Visakhapatnam for the two states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. More than 12,500 Passengers are expected to use the completed facility on a daily basis.
The operations of the Kilambakkam project was put on a hold as the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) didn’t clear the permission for the construction in a specified area set for construction. Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) officials informed that they had written a clear brief to ASI about the construction pause of the bus terminus in Kilambakkam. The main reason behind the stuck of the operation is the land adjacent to the site under the custody of ASI safeguarding the centrally protected Monuments.
Initially the State government earmarked 88 acres of land at Kilambakkam for establishing the satellite bus terminus. After the opposition of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the project was scaled down to 35 acres in the GST road. Further the approval for parcel of a land was not granted by ASI, the construction operations were stopped and the planned Rs 300 crore project was put on a hold.
Kilambakkam Bus terminus will operate buses to southern districts that includes a dedicated location for Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses for inter-city transportation. Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the estimated Rs 300 crore project will be ready within a month.
Also the officials are planning to link the Kilambakkam Bus terminus with Urapakkam Railway station through a subway. This plan has a main challenge of cutting across the 500m distance in GST road that includes a big water body. So the construction will face many disturbances for the completion and cannot be materialized soon as expected by the earlier project officials.
