Chennai Bus Rapid Transit System
Planned bus rapid transit system in Chennai, India
See also Chennai Rapid Bus Transit Ways, another planned bus transit system.
Chennai BRTS was a bus rapid transit system taken up as an integrated part of Circular Corridor Project in India. Beginning at Adyar, the route will cover Saidapet, Jafferkanpet, Ramavaram, Puzhal, Manali, Chennai Central Railway Station, Lighthouse and will return to Adyar. The corridor will cover a distance of 70.3 kilometres (43.7 mi). The route of the elevated BRTS corridor was planned to run along the banks of Adyar river and Buckingham canal. The project was expected to be completed by 2013.
Corridors
The BRTS system was supposed to be integrated with the Circular Corridor 1 of the High Speed Circular Corridors.
Lighthouse — Adyar — IT corridor — Kundrathur — Madhuravoyal — Ennore — Vyasarpadi — Chennai Port — Lighthouse (Outer ellipse, Longest) [70.3 km]
Alignment
The Exclusive BRTS lane was proposed to be integrated with the circular corridor 1. Two different types were under consideration.
Along the median of the 6-lane single-tier system.
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