One-hour journey reduced to less than 40 minutes: Chennai Metro Rail’s Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch a game-changer for commuters

The phase II network has several new features, such as charging points, half-height platform screen doors in the elevated stations, and digital route mapsA journey between Poonamallee and Vadapalani, which used to take nearly an hour by road in peak-hour traffic, can now be covered in a little less than 40 minutes on the newly-inaugurated Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch of the Chennai Metro Rail’s phase II network.