AAI to build Metro station at Chennai airport

Chennai: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will construct the Metro Rail station that is planned in the airport complex, based on the design and alignment submitted by Chennai Metro Rail.
According to sources, Metro Rail decided to entrust AAI with the job because the structure was to come up on the airport premises and would have called for too much of coordinatation if it were to handle the construction. Metro Rail will deposit the money required for the construction with AAI.
“AAI has agreed to build the station,” said a senior official of Metro Rail. The design, location and alignment for the station are yet to be finalised and discussions are being held for the same.
Metro Rail wants the alignment of the elevated viaduct in such a way that passengers alighting from trains can access the first floor of the passenger terminals of the airport. As the airport expansion work is in progress, Metro Rail wants the station to be incorporated into the overall design of the new-look airport.
AAI is already constructing a flyover in front of the passenger terminals, which will also have a walkalator inside a tube-like structure underneath it. However, the airport has decided not to build the walkalator in the first phase. It is not clear yet whether the airport wants to incorporate the walkalator into the Metro station.
24/04/10 V Ayyappan/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Apr 2010