The highways department originally planned it construct a flyover to decongest Jawaharlal Nehru road (100 Feet Road) - Arcot Road junction. About 10 elevated stations of Chennai Metro Rail will be constructed including the one at the CMBT.
These stations will be located on the Koyambedu-Alandur stretch of Corridor 2. Metro Rail will have two corridors with a combined length of 45km.
One starts from Washermanpet to the airport and the other from Central station to St Thomas Mount via Koyambedu.
Elevated stations will come up at Koyambedu, CMBT, Arumbakkam, Vadapalani and Ashok Nagar. A Metro Rail official said, "We have decided to construct the Vadapalani flyover because the structure will have to be integrated with the elevated corridors and stations being built by Metro Rail." At present the metro rail work progressing rapidly along 100 Feet Road
.The flyover at Vadapalani, at the Arcot Road-Jawarhalal Nehru Road junction, was first planned by the highways department. However, Chennai Metro Rail authorities decided to take over its designing and construction as the metro rail line was crossing the alignment.
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