CHENNAI: Owing to maintenance with Southern Railway on Sunday, the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) and Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) had to operate additional services for the day.
To accommodate more passengers in a timely manner, the Metro trains were operated every seven minutes till 8 pm, on both green and blue lines. While MTC operated 150 buses on different routes.
Deviating from the usual Sunday schedule, the Metro trains were operated every seven minutes from 10 am till 8 pm. And, on Sunday evening, the Metro trains were operated every ten minutes.
Ensuring easy commuting to the public, the CMRL urged the passengers to use special MTC buses from Tambaram to the Airport and Meenambakkam and, further use Metro to various destinations, including Chennai Central and Wimco Nagar.
In the case of MTC, the overall 150 buses were operated in six different routes, with 60 buses between Broadway to Tambaram via Anna Salai, 30 buses from Korukkupet to Tambaram, and 20 buses each from Broadway to Tambaram via T Nagar and Broadway to Guduvanchery.