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MRTS, Chennai suburban rail problems highlighted on The Hindu website
The Hindu carries a slideshow on the many problems afflicting the MRTS and the Chennai suburban rail system here. It covers the gamut of issues such as overcrowding, lack of ticketing modernisation, o… more →
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MRTS, Chennai suburban rail problems highlighted on The Hindu website
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 2 months ago: The Hindu carries a slideshow on the many problems afflicting the MRTS and the Chennai suburban rail … more →
Subway Riders Remain Faithful Despite Fare Increase
columbiajourno wrote 4 months ago: by Julia Duray Cordel McDonald’s daily commute from his home in Brooklyn to Grand Central Stat … more →
Built Train Tough
pittswiley wrote 4 months ago: On the subway, nobody wants to be the one to blink first. In my few months in the city, I’ve b … more →
Straphanger Updates on Chennai transit coming back, in a big way!
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 5 months ago: I realise that this blog has not been updated in a while. That’s partly because of attention d … more →
Ramblings from a soon-to-be 26 year old
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jkam611 wrote 5 months ago: As I sit here on the eve of my 26th birthday, I think about some of the things that I have seen or h … more →
Train 2 [Part 2]
Just Another Writer wrote 8 months ago: Suddenly, a rush forward onto the train, both frantic and calculated, a simple routine for veterans … more →
MTC and corruption: Why the sudden concern?
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 8 months ago: The daily newspapers and other media in Tamil Nadu recently carried the sensational report that the … more →
A transport manifesto for Chennai
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 9 months ago: A slideshow story of a couple of passengers on an MTC bus getting acquainted with the corporation … more →
Beware of MTC checking crews on Chennai buses!
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Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 10 months ago: On Monday evening, Jan 5, I was witness to a hapless duo — a blind man and his friend, a touri … more →
Monsoon 2008: Excess rains paralyse life for Chennai residents
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 11 months ago: Shocked over what has happened in Mumbai isolated in their houses due to rising flood waters, reside … more →
Riders May Lose W Train Among Big MTA Cuts
whatyouwrite wrote 1 year ago: Photo from heathbrandon on Flickr With the MTA’s budget deficit now being projected at 1.2 bil … more →
Chennai: Times of India focus on pedestrians, The Hindu on power
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: The plight of Chennai’s pedestrians and the indifference of the CMDA and the DMK Government is … more →
Chennai 2008: Experts ignore the low hanging fruit
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: A group of experts whose comments on Chennai’s transport mess are reported by The Hindu today … more →
More Letters To Commuters
jkam611 wrote 1 year ago: Dear Foreign Family Visiting New York for the First Time, The train moves. It starts and stops. If y … more →
SUV kills pedestrian: Just who is in charge of Chennai traffic?
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: The Times of India has devoted a lot of coverage today to the death of a pedestrian on Harrington Ro … more →
Chennai Volvo service: MTC gets this part right for once
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: Chennai’s Metropolitan Transport Corporation seems to have got this one right, at least in the … more →
Beach - Velachery MRTS schedules disappear in stations
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: On a trip to Kasturba Nagar earlier this evening on the Beach – Velachery MRTS, the most notic … more →
Chennai MTC absenteeism rises, bus trips stagnate
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: The Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) in Chennai is not known to be a transparent organisatio … more →
Chennai walk-a-thon unites walking classes, hawkers
Ananthakrishnan G. wrote 1 year ago: Straphangers United participated in the well-attended Chennai Walk-a-Thon organised by Walking Class … more →
