Chennai BRTS

See also Chennai RBTW, another planned bus transit system.

Chennai Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) was a new rapid transit project taken up as an integrated part of Circular Corridor Project in India. Beginning at Adyar, the route will cover Saidapet, Jafferkanpet, Ramavaram, Puzhal, Manali, Chennai Central Railway Station, Lighthouse and will return to Adyar. The corridor will cover a distance of 70.3 kilometres (43.7 mi). The route of the elevated BRTS corridor was planned to run along the banks of Adyar river and Buckingham canal. The project was expected to be completed by 2013.^[1]

Corridors

The BRTS system was supposed to be integrated with the Circular Corridor 1 of the High Speed Circular Corridors.^[2]

• Lighthouse — Adyar — IT corridor — Kundrathur — Madhuravoyal — Ennore — Vyasarpadi — Chennai Port — Lighthouse (Outer ellipse, Longest) [70.3 km]

Alignment

The Exclusive BRTS lane was proposed to be integrated with the circular corridor 1. Two different types were under consideration.

• Along the median of the 6-lane single-tier system.
• On top of the 6-lane two-tier system. BRTS 2-lanes was proposed on the top tier and 4-lane for general traffic at the bottom second tier.

The following was the general alignment of the entire BRTS corridor. This was the alignment of the entire BRTS corridor.

• Thiru-vi-ka Bridge — Ramavaram (elevated, along the median of circular corridor or top tiers)
• Ramavaram — NH-bypass (elevated, grade separated, beneath the circular corridor 1)
• NH-bypass — Madhavaram(elevated, along NH-bypass median)
• Madhavaram — TPP Road (elevated, along the median of IRR)
• TPP Road — Manali Oil Refinery(MOR) (elevated, along the median of Manali Oil Refinery Road (MORR)
• MOR — Chennai Central (elevated, along the western banks of North Buckingham Canal)
• Chennai Central — Adyar (elevated, along the Buckingham canal and abutting the MRTS)

Stations

Station Type

Tower structure was proposed for the BRTS stations. Two types depending on the type of the corridor [single or more tiers] were proposed.

• Towers along the median of the 6-lane single tier system.
• Towers along the curb-side for 2-tier and 3-tier system.

Station Locations

21 bus stations were proposed for the first phase of the BRTS.

Adyar Corridor (15.8 km) - 7 bus stations

1. Adyar
2. West Canal Road
3. Kotturpuram
4. Saidapet
5. Jafferkhanpet
6. Nandambakkam
7. Porur

NH-Bypass Corridor (13 km) - 5 bus stations

1. Porur
2. Madhuravoyal
3. Ambattur (Mogappiar)
4. NH-205 cross road
5. Puzhal

Northern IRR section (8 km) - 3 bus stations

1. Madhavarm junction
2. Manjambakkam
3. TPP road junction.

North B' Canal Corridor (12 km) - 6 bus stations

1. Junction of Manali High Road and Buckingham Canal
2. interchange with Kamarajar Salai – Basin road
3. near Indian Oil Corporation bottling plant
4. Korukkupet
5. Basin Bridge
6. near central station

South B' Canal Corridor - 3 bus stations

1. at walajah Road junction
2. Triplicane
3. near Madaveli MRTS Station
4. Kotturpuram

Design Speed

The speed design for the BRTS corridor was proposed to be 60 km/h - 70 km/h.

Integration of BRTS with other Transits

The BRTS was proposed to be integrated with different modes of transits already existing or under construction or proposed for the city. Apart from that major roads were also be to be integrated. The following is a list of locations of BRTS integrating different modes of Transport in Chennai city.

Major roads

• IT corridor extension via West canal bank road
• Gandhimandapam / TurnBulls road
• Anna Salai
• Jawaharlal Nehru road(IRR)
• Mount-Poonamallee road
• Arcot road

Major railway stations

• Chennai Central
• Basin Bridge Junction

MRTS stations

• Kotturpuram
• Chepauk
• Mandaveli

Metro stations

• Saidapet (Metro corridor 1)
• Jafferkhanpet (Metro corridor 2)

Project Status

2008

November:

• Wilbur Smith Associates won the contract of TNUIFSL to prepwere the feasibility study and DPR for the project.^[3]

2009

28 May:

• DPR, cost estimates, work drawings and bid documents for the first leg of BRTS on Adyar corridor of the Chennai High Speed Circular Corridors (HSCC) was released to the public.
• Public consultation will be held soon.

3 June:

• Residents oppose the project as they will be dwasplaced for the project.^[4]
• Adyar Poonga Trust promwases to resettle the dwasplace.^[5]

26 August:

• Feasibility study for the project was likely to be over by January 2010. Total Corridor length was 110 km.^[6]

See also

• High Speed Circular Corridor
• Mass Rapid Transit System (Chennai)
• Chennai Metro
• Chennai Elevated Expressways
• Chennai Monorail
• Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai)
• List of MTC bus routes

References

Bus Rapid Transit System in India
Operational	Ahmedabad BRTS Delhi BRTS Indore BRTS Jaipur BRTS Rainbow BRTS Rajkot BRTS Surat BRTS
Under Construction	Amritsar BRTS Bhopal BRTS Hubli-Dharwad BRTS Ludhiana BRTS Mumbai BRTS Vijayawada BRTS Visakapatnam BRTS
Planned	Bangalore BRTS Bhubaneswar BRTS Chennai BRTS Coimbatore BRTS Hyderabad BRTS Jalandhar BRTS Kolkata BRTS Lucknow BRTS Madurai BRTS Mohali BRTS Mysore BRTS Nagpur BRTS Tiruchirappalli BRTS

Transport in Tamil Nadu
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Water	Ports Chennai Ennore Kattupalli Nagapattinam Thoothukudi