Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has introduced the Wi-Fi facility from today (Friday, 8th November) and calling facility during the travel. Airtel has decided to offer 4G data and voice services on the blue and green tracks.
CMRL officials informed that as an additional facility for the CMRL passengers/commuters, 32 ATMs are to be installed in 19 Chennai Metro Rail Stations including Central, Egmore, Nehru Park, and Nandanam.
In the LIC metro station and in the Thousand Lights metro station, the commuter patronage rose up to 26%. This was after the Anna Salai stretch was made 2-way in the month of September.
CMRL and famous watch manufacturers Titan have joined hands to manufacture watches that would allow the commuters to just flash their smartwatches at the automatic ticketing gates and walk into the trains.
There are 3 corridors present in the phase-2 is known. It must be taken into account that corridor 3 is from Madhavaram to SIPCOT, corridor 4 from Light House to Poonamallee, Corridor 5 from Madhavaram to Sholinganallur.