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Just been thinking Chennai is finding it hard to beat the heat while recent supreme court verdict says to remove sun film on all four wheelers.
Just because of the naughty 10% why should the 90% of people suffer. Aren’t there better technologies and hard laws to solve the problem.
All these strict laws may disappear in the next few months and the loosers are the once who support these laws.
Friends have been saying wait for an stay order it should be on its way.
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Honk, No reply. Why? he is over the phone and driving.
This guy was the phone, and was on the extreme right side of the road. How do you expect one to overtake?
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chennai MRTS was launched up to velachery last monday 19th of November 2007.
Well I commute to my office by using Chennai MRTS from Villivakkam ->Beach-> Velachery and back home
Things which I want to communicate to the Railway officials.
Most software companies have open office timing and most members come to office by 10.30 AM and leave late in the night back home (say average time of 8:00 PM). The train timings which have been currently offered will not meet the expectation of software professionals, who work in IT park and some more IT offices at velachery.
Connecting trains are a major problem, say Villivakkam has more trains to offer, but to the beach. It is less. Well from beach to velachery is most inconvenient, connecting trains don’t wait if the ones reach little late.
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above chennai MRTS train timing from velachery to beach station
Why Chennai MRTS amuses me?
Savings – I usually commute by car or motor cycle. On an average I do 45KMS a day home->office->home. If I choose Chennai MRTS from villivakkam to beach and beach to velachery is 9RS (INR) and from velachery to beach and beach to villivakkam it is 8RS(INR) so a total of 17 INR when compared to 1& 1/2 litre of petrol on my bike and whooping 4 litres of petrol for my car say around 200 INR/day. 4000 INR for 20 days
Cost factor – If I buy a season ticket for 3 months it is only 375 INR which is close to 2 days the price of petrol for my car.
Organized – well I don’t want to be late to my office. I have to plan my day. I wake up little early than usually. My company vice president prefers to travel by bus or train or even a cycle (well he could afford to buy the expensive car and have chauffeur at his disposal, well something I am missing) . If he could manage time. I should learn, how to manage my time.
Traffic – Rain or too hot, no more worries staying in the signal. Don’t have to worry any more for the scratch on your new car. Nor have to bite the nails and carry tension. Nor get stranded for long time on signals.
Pollution – What? Unless the train passes over the coovum river or near the Petro chemical refineries
Health conscious – Because I plan my day, I drop my son to school early. Now I do little bit walking, how?
If I have walk to villivakkam station from home and from velachery station to office and back that is about 20 minutes of walking a day. Well a good exercise which I was missing all these days.
Apart from that I have started listing to some podcast or my favorite radio while traveling using my Nokia N70 mobile.
The only worry is that, will I not get more options from the Railways.
Final words: I believe chennai MRTS needs to do some kind of marketing to attract the software professionals, most probably they need to increase the number of trains plying during after peak hours and provide adequate support/connecting train timings at all the main stations (returning to home is a big problem now). Once done, they could possibly see the increase in the traffic in that route.
Do let me know your thoughts and comments, Will MRTS will be of help.
Here is a southern railways site which has the suburban train timing. It has information about the connecting trains time table
Is chennai traffic police department reading my blogs?
Just curious, not boasting off. If you looked at this post AnnaNagar West Traffic Signal Light . The green signal on the other side has been removed, And prominence for the signboard “No lorry traffic”
Would love to have visitors from the chennai traffic office.
Don’t worry about me, I am just taking rest, have a good day!!!
This is a usual scene, heavy traffic at velachery at 8:45 AM near the bypass. On Wednesday it is worst. Most of Wednesday you will not get a chance to take the bypass road.
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Today morning I was crossing little mount, the road was busy enough, all of sudden. Vehicles right in front of started to scatter, the car right in front of mine, bumped this poor cow, hurt its leg, and made a sudden stop. I was few meters away, stranded and didn’t know what to do for the next few seconds. This poor cow didn’t know where to go, it started crossing the other lane, causing little tension for the riders.
I know there are laws, which could fine the owner of the cow. But how many days can the cops be behind these cow owners.
Recently had been to fill up the tank for my car and these people pulled down the filling jack from Air and said “Sir Check the Zero” I said I want petrol and not Diesel looking at the Meter close by.
Then they showed me one more meter right at the left top of the above image
I was shocked. I felt like an idiot.
The next time some one is pulling those pipes, do care ask where you have to look for, before assuming things.
One more thing you can note at the top image the bend in the pipe could hold atleast 50- 100 ml of petrol. So be careful.
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3 yrs before I took my 4 wheeler driving license and I made recent visit at Avadi main Road Chennai traffic license Authority Office for getting a new 4 wheeler driving license for my Wife. I was quiet thriller looking the facilities. Testing arena seems to good, no need to distrub the public nor any risk for conducting test.
Here are the few snaps 
Great Work from a Government Agency: Hats of to you guys
But there is one annoying thing, Which I felt I should address, I don’t work on Saturdays, The license Authority works on Saturday, but doesn’t issue license for the public, but only to the Government Employees. Do government Employees have some thing extra.
Why public can’t get their license on saturday?
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