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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...

Work has begun in full swing for the metro corridor connecting Wadala-Ghatkopar-Thane-Kasarvadavali. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has started soil testing work  near Bhakti Park at Wadala. The metro officials are also planning traffic diversion running along the metro corridor route. The Mumbai Metro 4 corridor work is a huge project and will be constructed concurrently in five packages. Contractors for the project have already been appointed in March by the authorities. As per the MMRDA officials soil testing is conducted to estimate the condition of the soil before the construction work begins. This process is initiated before the piles are erected for the construction of the corridor. Once this process is done, the next step will be to identify utilities underneath the soil. The official added that gas lines and electricity lines run underground and these will have be identified via manual excavation. This is done to avoid any mishap during the ...