Soil testing for a few months in Madhavaram to prevent cave-ins Phase II
Chennai: There were several road caves in Phase 1, of Chennai Metro Rail. Now, Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) in order to be safe from loopholes in upcoming phase II. Planned for soil testing for a few months in Madhavaram before carrying out tunneling work. Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has also decided to make some changes in the alignment according to soil conditions as per officials’ decision. Even though these changes will be minor ones. [caption id="attachment_13356" align="alignnone" width="504"] Chennai Metro Phase II Network Map (PC: CMRL)[/caption] Official said that these changes will be only minor ones. We have planned to do it as we had issues of roads caving-in some areas in phase I because of loose soil and want to avoid them in this phase. About Phase II Projec t The Phase II will criss-cross the city which will consists nearly 108km with 116 stations of this, about 81km out of which 88 stations will be underground while the eleva...