To a first time visitor from a village – roads and bridges of Chennai can be bewildering and bit frightening too !!
The first reference is to Gemini flyover (named after Gemini studios ! in its vicinity long ago) was built in 1973 – longest at that time and is a dual-armed grade separator allowing free traffic movement on Mount Road.
Then there is the Kathipara – closer to which now Alandur Metro is a great attraction. Alandur is a place linked to development from a rural area to a modern city hub, influenced by 18th century Anglo-French wars, and the Bengali regiments stationed over there – to a market at MKN Road (Muthu Kumarasami Naicker !)
Before the brilliant
and confusing - cloverleaf flyover was built, the junction was a large,
signal-controlled roundabout – and there was a statue of Jawaharlal Nehru
releasing a dove. This Kathipara
junction is a major road link with vehicles moving towards Porur, KK Nagar and
Guindy, Saidapet in different directions.
The Blue and Green
lines of Metro merge at Alandur – here is a photo taken as Blue line Metro was
nearing Alandur with view of Kathipara cloverleaf flyover and a Metro on Green
line, taken few years ago !
15.9.2025
Nicely presented
ReplyDeleteThers one more level under construction now which was not understandable at the location. There's no reference to that in the blog
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