Chennai International Airport metro station

The Chennai International Airport Metro Station is a metro railway station on the Blue Line of the Chennai Metro. The station serves the Chennai International Airport and the neighbourhoods of Meenambakkam, Tirusulam, Pallavaram and Pammal.


Chennai International Airport
Chennai Metro station
Coordinates12.980806°N 80.164197°E / 12.980806; 80.164197
Line(s)
  Blue Line
PlatformsSide platform
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeElevated
History
Opened21 September 2016 (2016-09-21)
Passengers
20199,000/day[1]
Rank3
Services
Preceding station   Chennai Metro   Following station
toward Washermanpet
Blue LineTerminus
  Out-of-system interchange  
Preceding station   Chennai Suburban   Following station
South Line
Transfer at: Tirusulam
toward Tambaram or Chengalpattu Junction or Tirumalpur
Location
Chennai International Airport metro station
Location within Chennai

The station enables rapid transit connectivity with the airport, making Chennai the second city in India after Delhi to achieve this.[2]

Construction

The foundation for the station was laid on 24 May 2012. While the architectural and structural design of the station will be carried out by AAI in consultation with Creative Group, the interiors of the station will be designed by CMRL. The time frame for constructing the metro station is 14 months and the work has been awarded to URC Construction Company Private Limited, Erode, at a cost of ₹ 480 million.[3]

By the end of July 2014, the structural work on the station was completed.[2]

The station

The station building is a five-level terminal with a basement, ground floor, metro ground floor, concourse, and a platform. The station spans 17,300 square meters. To help passengers alight directly from the international and domestic terminals, the concourse of the station will be linked to the glass connector tube that will connect the two terminals. The station will be an RCC shell structure building with self-supported secret fix aluminium roofing.[3][4]

The station is one of the few in the corridor that will have parking facilities.[5]

Traffic

As of December 2019, about 9,000 passengers board trains at the metro station,[1] up from about 6,500 passengers in February 2019,[6] making it the third busiest Metro stations in Chennai, after Thirumangalam and Chennai Central.

See also

References
  1. Sekar, Sunitha (25 December 2019). "After a slow start, Metro sees steady uptick in ridership". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. p. 4. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  2. Sekar, Sunitha (4 August 2014). "Metro rail station work at Chennai airport completed". The Hindu. Chennai. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  3. Sridhar, Asha (24 May 2012). "Work on airport metro station to begin soon". The Hindu. Chennai. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  4. Ayyappan, V. (9 March 2012). "AAI and CMRL firmed up to build the airport metro station". The Times of India. Chennai: The Times Group. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  5. "Single train trip to equal 16 buses, 300 cars and 600 bikes". The Hindu. Chennai. 29 August 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  6. Sekar, Sunitha (21 February 2019). "Metro users jump to 90,000". The Hindu. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
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