The Chennai Metro Rail project –
the latest nuisance the government has to offer. A project that will be finished ‘tentatively’
by 2013. But we will never know, considering the working speed and other
criteria of the government workers.
Ok, this is how I think the
project came about. Tamil Nadu, especially Chennai, has a large number of low
grade government workers who can be found digging roads all the time.
Electricity board, Water department, Public Works department, Internet and
Telephone department; name any, they have this dedicated group of staff whose
initial and almost reflex response to a fault is digging up the nearby roads.
In order to provide better employment opportunities to these down-(in)to-earth
people and to commemorate their digging skills, they must have been made to
work on this project. After this metro rail project, a little birdie on the
inside says that they will be made to work on an unclassified “Operation
reverse red” where they will be made to dig to China in search of Bodhidharma’s
lost sister. Mr. A.R.Murugadoss, your story for 7 am arivu’s sequel is here. As
a royalty, I request you to pray not use Shruthi Hassan for the project. Seriously,
you would have a ‘FAT’ chance with Hansika.
The project actually aims at
creating traffic hassle-free Chennai by 2013 and it seems to be more of a
psychological approach than a physical one. Half the roads are blocked with the
construction process creating an artificial traffic hassle, forcing the drivers
to take a detour, i.e. making them drive on the pavement. It is only a matter
of time before drivers start using the sub-way to cross the street. If such
aforementioned heights of lunatic driving are reached, the people will only be
happy in 2013 when the construction is finally over and the traffic returns to
normal. Or worse, it prepares them for future traffic hassles. Such is the
far-sightedness of the project.
There seem to be more than one
hidden agenda behind the project, like the one mentioned above. One of them is
the testing of building strengths near the proposed underground metro rail
tracks. Mind you, this project will be testing the strength of your building’s
foundation if it is anywhere near the underground railway track. Crying
“Building strong-u, but basement konjam weak-u” at a later point of time won’t
work.
Also the railway track seems to
run right beside the Kilpauk medical hospital and college. If necessary
precautions are not taken, well, you know the consequences. But this can
actually work in favour of the K.M.C. Those needing defibrillator for cardiac
arrests can be moved to the building closest to the underground railway track
and leave the metro railway to work its magic.
Also,
the metro railway track seems to cross stations where there are regular railway
tracks. For example, Guindy, which is very near to the Meenambakkam airport, is
getting a metro rail station. For all we know, there is a world class flyover
and a regular railway station already in place in Guindy. What traffic hassle
could have possibly been foreseen by the Government there? Also, a hypothetical
case considered by some newspaper reporters where a plane starting from
Meenambakkam loses its control and crashes over a train near the elevated
Guindy metro rail station, the event coming to think of it, will be one of a kind: A mid-air collision
of a plane with a train.
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| Yeah, that is what it is. FUCKED. |
These
apart, I had always dreamt of waking up, getting dressed and opening the door
of my home only to find a train that will take me to my work place. Suddenly
now, it seems closer to reality.
