Chennai Elevated Expressway

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  • More flyovers or elevated expressways?

    The Hindu R. Sujatha and L. Srikrishna CHENNAI : Are flyovers the best solution to cut traffic congestion? Opinion is divided on the question. Most road-users are happy to zip across a junction using a flyover but entry and exit points are still difficult to navigate. According to Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Sunil Kumar, flyovers allow vehicles to reach their destinations faster.

  • No change in alignment of elevated expressway

    The Hindu A Srivathsan Oct 7,2009 Chennai: There will be no change to the alignment of the proposed elevated expressway from Chennai Port to Maduravoyal despite objections raised by the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). The proposed 19-km expressway will start from Chennai Port and continue along the banks of the Cooum till Koyambedu. From Koyambedu, it would ply at the centre of the existing road up to Maduravoyal on Chennai bypass.

  • Construction works for elevated highway soon: Baalu

    Webindia123 Chennai: Union Minister for Shipping and Highways T R Baalu today said the foundation stone for construction of an elevated highway from War Memorial near Chennai Port to Maduravoyal, covering a distance of 18.4 km, would be laid soon. Talking to newspersons after calling on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi at his Gopalapuram residence, he said the project would be executed at a cost of Rs 1500 crore. It would be implemented jointly by the Central and State governments.

  • Chennai Port to build Rs 5,500 cr projects

    Projects Monitor Lalitha Rao Chennai Port Trust is all set to launch seven major projects estimated to cost around Rs 5,500 crore. The new proposals are Chennai Mega Terminal, dedicated expressway from Chennai Port to Maduravoyal on NH-4, second container terminal, development of a mega car parking terminal, deepening channels, setting up wind mill farm, and port modernisation.

  • Chennai elevated expressway to be realigned

    Business Line Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu Government has accepted the proposal of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for a change in the alignment of the proposed elevated expressway connecting Chennai Port with Maduravoyal.

  • Chennai elevated expressway to be realigned

    Business Line R.Y. Narayanan Coimbatore, April 17 The Tamil Nadu Government has accepted the proposal of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for a change in the alignment of the proposed elevated expressway connecting Chennai Port with Maduravoyal.

  • Foundation stone for elevated expressway soon: Baalu

    Chennai Online Chennai, May 10 Union Shipping Minister T R Baalu today said the foundation stone for the Rs 1,500 crore elevated expressway from War Memorial to Maduravoyal will be laid soon Talking to newspersons here after distributing free pattas, he said the foundation stone for the project will be laid very soon after consulting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.

  • PM Manmohan Singh To Lay Foundation Stone Of Chennai Expressway

    India Server The Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone of the Chennai expressway on Thursday (January 8). The 19-km elevated expressway which is supposed to be built at an outlay of Rs.1,655 crore will connect Chennai Port and Maduravoyal. While informing about the proposed expressway, Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Minister T.R. Baalu said that it will take three years to complete the corridor.

  • Prime Minister to lay foundation stone of Chennai expressway

    The Indian Chennai, Jan 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone for the 19-km elevated expressway connecting Chennai Port and Maduravoyal here Thursday. “The corridor, being built at an outlay of Rs.1,655 crore (Rs.16.55 billion), will be completed in three years,” Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Minister T.R.Baalu told reporters here Tuesday.

  • Chennai to get first elevated highway

    Exchange for Projects e4p Correspondent Chennai will have its first elevated highway in the next three years. The 19-km highway, for which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone on 8 January 2008, will connect the Chennai port with Maduravoyal, at a cost of Rs 1,655 crore.

  • PM to inaugurate elevated expressway tomorrow

    The Hindu Our Bureau Jan 07,2009 Chennai, Jan. 6 The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, will inaugurate on Thursday the country’s longest elevated corridor connecting Chennai port and Maduravoyal junction, a suburb to the west of Chennai. The project is aimed at quick and continuous dispersal of cargo in and out of the port to other parts of the country through the Golden Quadrilateral corridor.

  • Elevated expressway opposed

    New Indian Express Greeshma Gopal Giri CHENNAI: The open air theatre at Kalakshetra in Chennai witnessed an unusual congregation: the city’s rich and elite joining hands with the less privileged in voicing their reservations and protest against the proposed elevated express highway project. They want the government to give up the Rs 1,000-crore elevated expressway from Marina Beach to Kottivakkam.

  • Medha Patkar comes down on elevated expressway project

    The Hindu SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Renowned social activist Medha Patkar on Friday slammed the Tamil Nadu government’s elevated expressway project from the Chennai Port Trust to Maduravoyal and along the beach. “Express highways are considered by many in power and the middle class as an infrastructural solution to the problems of transport and communication in the city. But, they are taking large chunks of land, killing public transport and facilitating the agenda of the private car industry,” she said.

  • Pollution board charts out strategies

    New Indian Express Express News Service CHENNAI: Tanneries in and around Chennai are dumping about 3,000 kilolitres of waste per day into the city’s waterways and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board is working out strategies to make the units adhere to zero discharge, according to R Ramachandran, member secretary, TNPCB. At a seminar on Waterways in Chennai on Thursday, Ramachandran said the board would bring in regulation to stop tanneries dumping their waste into the waterways.

  • Wilbur Smith’s expressway feasibility report run

    New Indian Express C Shivakumar CHENNAI: More errors came to light as the final feasibility report of the Rs 1,655-crore elevated expressway project (between Chennai Port and Maduravoyal) mistook the number of people who would be affected by the project and allegedly “lied” about public consultations conducted for it.

  • Elevated corridor to pass through Poonamallee road

    The HinduSpecial Correspondent CHENNAI: The 15-km-long Elevated Expressway from Chennai Port to Maduravoyal will pass through the Poonamallee High Road from Maduravoyal to Koyambedu and go along the left bank of the Cooum. The elevated corridor will come up on the central portion of the Poonamallee High Road between Maduravoyal and Koyambedu.

  • Elevated expressway faces delay in getting clearance

    Deccan Chronicle DC Correspondent , Chennai March 20: Delays in getting coastal regulation zone (CRZ) clearance and problems regarding relief and resettlement of affected families are turning out to be major hurdles for the 19-km-long elevated expressway connecting Chennai Port and Maduravoyal via Koyambedu junction. Officials, however, are optimistic that the issues will soon to sorted out.

  • TN: CBI probing expressway irregularities

    New Indian Express C Shivakumar Last Updated : 21 Mar 2010 08:34:01 AM IST CHENNAI: The Central Bureau of Investigation is investigating irregularities in the Rs 1,655 crore Elevated Expressway project to the concessionaire on the recommendation of the consultant Wilbur Smith. “All the records related to the above project work were given to the CBI’s anti corruption bureau for perusal,” according to the National Highway Authority of India.

  • A waterway & an expressway in conflict

    Madras Musings M.G. Devasahayam Government’s simultaneous promotion of the 19-km long Chennai Port to Maduravoyal elevated expressway along the banks of the River Cooum and the ‘eco-restoration’ of the same river adopting the ‘Singapore model’ is a case of contradiction and conflict. The contradiction is this: Smooth and unhindered river flow into the sea is critical for the ‘restoration’ of the Cooum and to keep it clean.

  • CRZ nod denied again for Elevated Expressway

    The Hindu A. Srivathsan
    Chennai: For the second time, the Ministry of Environment and Forest has refused clearance for the elevated expressway from Chennai Port to Maduravoyal proposed by the Chennai Port Trust. The Expert Appraisal Committee for Coastal Regulation Zone (Infrastructure Development and Miscellaneous Projects), convened a few weeks ago, scrutinised the project and did not recommend it for Costal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance.

  • Writ petition in HC for alternative alignment

    New Indian Express C Shivakumar First Published : 03 Apr 2010 05:29:00 AM IST CHENNAI: A writ petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking change of alignment of the Rs 1,655 crore Elevated Expressway, suggesting that the one proposed by L&T Ramboll would save thousands of people from displacement.

  • Tamil Nadu mum over UNHRC appeal

    New Indian Express C Shivakumar First Published : 06 Apr 2010 03:31:00 AM IST CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government is silent over an appeal by the United Nation Human Rights Council seeking information on forced evictions reportedly carried out by the PWD and Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board to clear land that the NHAI planned to use to build an elevated expressway.