Commuters hassled by heavy traffic on Mount Road can heave a sigh of relief as Chennai Metro is likely to open the 4km stretch from AG-DMS to Little Mount by the end of this year.
The 4km underground stretch had some movement with the flagging off a locomotive to undertake trials. This could mean that the work on the stretch is near completion.
Chennai Metro Rail said that soon there will be trial run by Chennai Metro trains once the system work gets over.
The integrated trials followed by system integration will be conducted during the trials to get the stretch ready for operation. Interestingly, Chennai Metro Rail officials are tinkering with the possibility of opening this stretch along with the stretch between Nehru park to Chennai Central by the end of this year.
This stretch from DMS to Saidapet comprises four stations — Saidapet, Nandanam, Teynampet and AG-DMS.
Chennai Metro hopes that once the 4km underground stretch is opened, it could boost the ridership significantly and give an option for passengers to skip the busy Mount Road stretch.
The entire stretch is a commercial area and is dotted with government offices, colleges as well as hotels, malls and shopping areas. It would also connect Anna Nagar with DMS as well as DMS with Airport, said officials.
Apart from completion of works by installing systems including tunnel ventilation, signalling, platform screen doors, automatic fare collection gates, the final lap of finishing work on the underground metro stations too is underway in the stretch.
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