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Metro dips under Cooum

CMRL To Build Twin Underground Tunnels, Deepest Point At 30 Metres Near Central Railway Station

V Ayyappan | TNN

You take a train from Chennai Central to airport, a commute of 20 minutes. Within seconds, you will be darting at 80kmph, about 30 metres under the bed of the historic Cooum. Welcome to metro rail of 2015, when commuters will plunge into the depths of Chennai, literally, untouched by the traffic over their heads. Till then, witness this unprecedented engineering feat — the making of twin tunnels on two corridors. In a few months, giant tunnel boring machines will be quietly burrowing underneath the Cooum. “Chennai will soon see some engineering that has been done in a few cities abroad,” said V Somasundaram, chief general manager, construction, Chennai Metro Rail Ltd

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Bouw metro verbinding Chennai central - Airport

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