CHENNAI: If everything goes as planned, then in 2.5 years city residents could comfortably travel in a metro train on a 16km elevated line from Powerhouse in Kodambakkam to Poonamallee and a few months later, they could take the same train to busy city localities like Marina Beach, Mylapore or T Nagar that are in between the 10km Lighthouse-Powerhouse underground line.
In one of the tenders floated recently, CMRL revealed that it has set a deadline of June 2025 for commercial operations of the Powerhouse to Poonamallee bypass and December 2025 for Lighthouse to Powerhouse and the remaining part of the whole project. Both the sections are part of the 26.1km Lighthouse to Poonamallee bypass corridor-4 with 27 stations, which is one of the three corridors of 118.9km phase-2 project.
