St Thomas Mt to be key S Chennai hub
Chennai: To streamline operations and eliminate mid-journey transfers, Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) is extending corridor five from Alandur to St Thomas Mount with a new 1.25km elevated viaduct.
The new link, running parallel to the existing elevated structure, will have two tacks for up trains and two for down — transforming Mount into a full-scale interchange between corridors two (St Thomas Mount-Chennai Central) and five (Madhavaram-Sholinganallur).
As per the original plan, commuters travelling from Madhavaram towards southern suburbs such as Madipakkam, Medavakkam, or Sholinganallur had to get down at Alandur and board another train to continue.
With the revised alignment, trains can now run uninterrupted.
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To make space for this expanded alignment, CMRL acquired additional land and will also demolish portions of corridor two infrastructure near Railway Station Road, adjusting curves to accommodate the new link, said T Archunan, director (projects), CMRL. He also mentioned that a new building and passenger facilities will come up at Mount on vacant land, establishing it as a key southern transit node, on par with Alandur.
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The project gains greater significance as St Thomas Mount is also set to connect with the MRTS network, though the last leg from Velachery has remained incomplete for more than a decade. Commuters welcomed CMRL's initiative but criticised
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for the stagnation.
"CMRL is working with long-term passenger convenience in mind. But Southern Railway has left the MRTS stretch hanging for years," said V Shankar, a Velachery commuter.
"If MRTS was handed over to CMRL, it would've been completed by now."
Southern Railway said in the past that delays on the Velachery–Mount MRTS leg were due to metro work. CMRL officials, however, said that all related metro work on that stretch near Thillai Ganga Nagar and Mount was completed long ago, and that the delay is unrelated to their operations.
With CMRL targeting a 2026 launch for corridor five, commuters hope that if the MRTS leg is handed over in time, both networks could open together, finally bridging one of the city's most stubborn connectivity gaps.
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