CHENNAI: The Metropolitan Transport Corporation has launched services along nine new routes to help people reach work places faster. It also revived services along 14 routes that were stopped due to poor patronage.
After the inauguration on Thursday, transport minister R S Rajakannapan said 30 buses will ply along the routes regularly. Buses will be operated from Saidapet and Tondiarpet, connecting southern and northern suburbs with the core city.
State government employees from Todd Hunter Nagar, usually have to change bus two buses to reach the Secretariart, Ezhilgam and other government offices along Kamarajar Salai (Marina beach road). “Direct buses have now been made available from Todd Hunter Nagar to these areas,” said Ma Subramanian, Saidapet MLA and health minister, who was present.
Hundreds of people from Theedeer Nagar, Gotha Medu and Kottupuram along the Adyar were resettled in Kannagi Nagar, Ezhil Nagar and Perumbakkam, but most still have shops in and around Saidapet. A new route (5S) has been launched to help them, said Subramanian.
S Kavi Priya, who works at Olympia Tech Park, is happy more buses will ply from Ekkattuthangal. “Right now, we are left with no other option but to take metro trains to reach Koyambedu or Central from where we can get buses to reach our homes,” she said. MTC revived services along three old routes from Ekkattuthangal to Toll Gate, Broadway and Sunguvarchatram.
