CMRL and famous watch manufacturers Titan have joined hands to manufacture watches that would allow the commuters to just flash their smartwatches at the automatic ticketing gates and walk into the trains.
There are 3 corridors present in the phase-2 is known. It must be taken into account that corridor 3 is from Madhavaram to SIPCOT, corridor 4 from Light House to Poonamallee, Corridor 5 from Madhavaram to Sholinganallur.
Good news for the Chennai residents!! The news that has come out is CMRL is planning to give a 50% fare discount on Sundays. The main purpose is to make more people use metro trains.
In the phase-2, the entire operation of trains would be automatic and CMRL has plans to operate driverless trains in the 3 corridors of 118.9 km phase-2. Information is, trains on phase-1 would be run by drivers.
People going to CMBT metro station would be surprised to see a solar power plant on the roof top now. On Monday, this 100 KWp solar power plant was installed at the roof top of this metro station in Chennai and this is spoken in high esteem now.