Presentation to Mayor and Councilors

Recently Chennai City Connect (CCC) did something new, at least for us. We organized a presentation for the Mayor of Chennai and Chennai Corporation Councilors by the team from Gehl Architects. Gehl team was represented by Henning Thomsen and Jeff Risom....

Pallikaranai Marsh – an opportunity?

After taking a policy decision to hand over 150 hectares of land in Pallikaranai to the forest department, the state government will take steps to acquire patches of land in the northern and south-eastern parts of the marsh, measuring about 127 hectares,...

Interaction session with Robert Swan

August 15, 20104:00 pmto6:00 pmWe are pleased to host an Interaction session with Robert Swan. For lesser mortals like the editor of the city connect website, here is brief about Robert Swan. Robert Swan, OBE is one of the world’s preeminent polar explorers...

Anna Flyover Solution

What turned out to be a simple yet brilliant suggestion by CCC Executive Committee member Mr K Venugopal (Joint Editor of Business Line); and some nifty design from traffic expert Mr Mark Selvaraj of LandTech Engineers Pvt Ltd is fast turning into a wonderful...

Anna Nagar Cycle Track Report

The first cut report of the Anna Nagar cycle track project is out. Click here to read the Evaluation of the existing conditions and design solutions by Michael Ronkin.

Ever realise this about Anna Flyover?

When we drive around Chennai, it is so easy to get lost in the big infrastructure gaps and almost forget the smaller regular loses! Anna Flyover is a classic example, the place has been a point of traffic convergence and intersection for 2 high density...

Electric Men To The Rescue

Like a man/woman waiting under the moonlight for his/her lover many of us have been waiting for the TNEB team to turn up and start moving the utilities to the designated Utility Strip. (Most of the time we have been waiting under the hot sun is a different...

Self Demolition on LB

Hope the following will help douse some cynicism in Chennai, for some time. As I had mentioned in an earlier post, many of the citizens who are interested in these kinds of projects believe nothing will change. Corporation of Chennai (CoC) will not do...

Chennai Airport – GST Road Decongestion

We have been working on a project that would help the MTC and also reduce the traffic on the GST road. The initial part of the work is to get the number of PCU’s that the airport is feeding into the GST. The statistics are very interesting as you...

TN Legislative Assembly Building – LEED’s Gold Rating

If you are here, you probably have already seen the news that The upcoming Tamilnadu Legislative Assembly building has received LEED’s(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification. Here is a brief of what it takes to get that...