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...

LB: A humbling experience

I can speak on behalf of the team. Our LB road pilot, which just involved 0.5 KM, is a humbling experience. Yet it is a very educational experience—you get to see how the city works. I am using present tense since the tendering and subsequent implementation...

Airport Parking Lot Improvement: A fast track approach

One of the urgent issues is the traffic chaos at the passenger pick up and drop off zones. Since the airport is being upgraded by AAI (new buildings to be open around Dec 2010) construction sites in front of the terminals are also adding to the chaos....

LB Road Project

This is to give the reader a good idea of how the LB Road Pilot (LB for short) was done. The set of engineering diagrams, landscape designs, signage and related documents are attached. We are happy to inform you that our designs for LB have been enthusiastically...