26-460: The Chennai City Police Commissionerate building is a 9-storied building on Poonamallee High Road at Vepery , Chennai . It houses the office of the commissioner of Chennai city police . The commissionerate was originally headquartered in Vepery until 1842, when it moved, along with its various departments, to a historic building on Pantheon Road, Egmore , which remained the administrative centre of
52-402: A bargain. The Indian Railways , needing land to expand the congested M.G.R Chennai Central station, tried unsuccessfully to take over the market. On 30 May 1985, the market building was destroyed due to a fire whose cause remains a mystery. The structure was later razed to make way for the new Chennai Suburban Railway terminus and reservation centre. This multi-storey building also houses
78-400: A bottleneck was widened, following a Madras High Court ruling. Officials of the state highways department cleared the encroachments that had reduced the width of the road. In the early 2000s, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) conceived an idea of a 6.5-km stretch connecting the two arterial stretches of Poonamallee High Road and Anna Salai in the city. The idea is to create
104-624: A traffic corridor connecting Anna Salai and Poonamallee High Road through the congested neighbourhoods of Chetpet, Nungambakkam and T. Nagar. In 2014, the Corporation modified the original alignment to create two corridors, namely, a 3.5-km stretch from Anna Salai to Mahalingapuram and a 3-km flyover connecting Thirumalai Pillai Road and Poonamallee High Road (covering five traffic bottlenecks in Chetpet junction, Sterling Road junction, Tank Bund Road junctions and Valluvar Kottam High Road junction). In 2014,
130-464: Is six metres (20 ft) wide in most stretches, except for the stretch between Koyambedu and Anna Nagar Arch , which has only four lanes. The width of the road varies from two to nine lanes or from 12 to 35 metres (39 to 115 ft). The road narrows at the stretches between Ripon Building and Government Fine Arts College , Pachaiyappa's College and Shenoy Nagar junction, and DG Vaishnav College and Koyambedu. The road has not been widened since
156-770: The Chennai Suburban Railway system, situated in Park Town in Chennai , India. The name Moore Market comes from a market that used to exist at the site before its demolition made way for the expansion of the MGR Central station. Moore Market was originally built to house the hawkers in the Broadway area of Madras . Its foundation stone was laid by Sir George Moore, president of the Madras Corporation in 1898. The building
182-459: The 1980s. The road is used by more than 185,000 vehicles every day. Heavy containers from and to the Chennai Port use this road at night, making it one of the heavily worn roads of the city and necessitating regular re-laying. As of 2008, about 11,000 passenger cars cross any given point of the road every hour. As of 2013, this has been projected to 19,000 passenger cars, more than five times
208-468: The Central crime branch working in coordination with the city intelligence unit, to monitor and tackle extremist activity in the city, is housed on the fifth floor. The sixth floor houses the intelligence wing of the city police. The seventh floor houses the traffic police control room and another control room with children, women and senior citizen's helpline. The topmost floor is occupied by the commissioner and
234-939: The Grand Northern Trunk (GNT) Road, the Grand Western Trunk (GWT) Road, and the Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road. The GNT Road eventually became the Chennai–Kolkata Highway, the GWT Road became the Chennai–Mumbai Highway (NH4), and the GST Road became the Chennai–Kanyakumari Highway (NH45). The stretches of these road within the city came to be known as Wall Tax Road , Poonamallee High Road, and Mount Road , respectively. EVR Periyar Salai
260-477: The building houses the public grievances redressal hall, passport verification zone and a reception area. Alongside the cyber crime lab, the elite special unit of the city police, the CCB with its 17 departments, occupy the first and second floors. The third, fourth, and fifth floors house various administrative wings of the city police staffed by deputy commissioners. An anti-terror cell (ATC), with specialised personnel from
286-408: The city police for over 170 years, until 2013. The property, a bungalow in a paddy field, was bought by Arunagiri Mudaliar for ₹ 36,000. On 1 May 1842, the city police moved into the bungalow for a monthly rent of ₹ 165. The two-storied building is a classic colonial bungalow with Doric columns and Madras terrace. In 1856, when Lt. Col. J.C. Boulderson of 35 regiment of Native infantry took charge as
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#1732851309762312-488: The departments are completed shifted to the new building, the commissioner office in Egmore is expected to be converted into a police museum. The building has 9 floors with a total built-up area of 173,000 sq ft, built on 5.49 acres of land. Construction began in 2009 and the work was completed in 2013 at a cost of over ₹ 254.6 million. The building has a basement parking facility for vehicles. The ground floor of
338-555: The designed capacity of the road. In 2011, the bridge across Cooum River at Aminjikkarai was widened at a cost of ₹ 69 million. In 2013, a new and wider bridge on the road across the Cooum river near Ampa Skywalk was planned at an estimated cost of ₹ 80 million under the Chennai Metropolitan Development Programme (CMDP). The 47-m-long bridge with 10 lanes, which will be the third "high-level bridge" over
364-416: The earliest X-ray units. The stretch also has about 25 standalone pharmacies. As of 2014, the arterial stretch carries around 250,000 vehicles a day, of which two-wheelers constituted 60 percent, cars 30 percent, and buses and other heavy vehicles the remaining. Major landmarks dotting the road include the following: In May 2013, a 300-m stretch of the road at Shenoy Nagar near Aminjikarai which acted as
390-404: The first police commissioner of Chennai, the land and bungalow was leased to the police department for ₹ 21,000 for a period of 99 years. For a brief period from 1882, the office was said to have moved to a building on Police Commissioner Office Road and then back to the bungalow. However, the historic records remain obscure. The building on Police Commissioner Office Road, which currently houses
416-793: The four additional commissioners and joint commissioner (intelligence), alongside a large conference hall. Poonamallee High Road EVR Periyar Salai (SHU 86) (EVR High Road), earlier known as Poonamallee High Road ( NH 48 ) and originally the Grand Western Trunk Road , is an arterial road in Chennai , India . It is the longest road in Chennai. Running from east to west, the 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) road starts at Muthuswamy Bridge near Madras Medical College at Park Town and ends near Maduravoyal Junction via Kilpauk , Aminjikarai , Anna Nagar Arch , Arumbakkam , Koyambedu . It further continues west towards Poonamallee and traverses
442-484: The highways department fixed the alignment of a 5.18-km-long, 4-laned elevated corridor that will take off at Raja Muthiah Salai, near Ripon Buildings, and descend near Pulla Reddy Avenue in Shenoy Nagar . The project has been estimated to cost ₹ 4,500 million. Moore Market The Chennai MMC Terminal , or Moore Market Complex (station code: MASS ), is a railway terminus cum commercial building complex for
468-766: The major government-run hospitals, the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and the Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital , remains a significant reason behind the road's morphing into a medical destination. The stretch is also home to Pandalai Nursing Home, one of the earliest private hospitals in the city, established in 1932, prior to which all hospitals were run by either the British or missionaries. Many private healthcare centres were opened since then, such as B M Sundaravadanan Nursing Home in 1934 and Ramarau Polyclinic in 1938, which had one of
494-452: The offices of various departments of the railways. The demolition of the market and People's Park is considered to mark the beginning of heritage activism in the city. The government later built a new commercial complex named Lily Pond Complex to rehabilitate the traders of Moore Market, further west of the original site. Built in 1986 at a cost of ₹ 66 million, the shopping complex lies mostly vacant due to poor patronage. The majority of
520-511: The police photographer's department, has a circular plaque with the inscription "Colonel W.S. Drever CSI Commissioner of Police, R.F. Chisholm, architect" and the year 1882 inscribed on it. It is still unclear to historians as to why and when the office moved from Pantheon Road to Police Commissioner Office Road and then back. The new commissionerate was opened by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on 18 October 2013. After
546-460: The river, will be broader than the road with 6 lanes. The bridge, at road level, will be at a height of 9.5 m from the riverbed. The bridge will have the same design as the old one abutting it, with two abutments and two piers. With several hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and diagnostic laboratories dotting its entire length, EVR Periyar Salai is often called Chennai's 'med street', similar to London 's Harley Street . The establishment of two of
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#1732851309762572-677: The towns of Sriperumbudur , Walajapet , and Ranipet . The road, particularly along its eastern end, has some of the most impressive civic institutions and heritage structures of the city, including the Ripon Building (the seat of civic body), the Victoria Public Hall (the city's Town Hall), the Central train station , the Moore Market (razed in the late 20th century), Madras Medical College , and St Andrew's Kirk . It connects two of
598-597: The traders continue to live on the streets to this day, hawking used mechanical and electronic goods. The station has five platforms, viz., platform numbers 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, which are technically continuous with platforms in the M.G.R Chennai Central main railway station. With the laying of two additional lines in September 2016, there are now five lines running between the station and the Basin Bridge railway station . The station caters to about 275 train services daily and
624-481: The vital transport installations of the city, Chennai Central railway station and the CMBT . The road has more hospitals than any other roads in the city and is popularly known as the city's 'Med street'. The road is named after the noted social activist and politician Periyar E. V. Ramasamy . The road was originally known as Grand Western Trunk (GWT) Road and was built in the 1850s by the then British government. The road
650-510: Was designed in the Indo-Saracenic style by R. E. Ellis and was constructed by A. Subramania Aiyar. The market, which consisted of a series of shops around a central quadrangle was finally completed in 1900, and had sections for meat, flowers and food items, but was particularly popular for curios including antiques, art, books and pets. Over the years, it gradually took the status of a flea market where one could buy rare and second-hand items for
676-513: Was numbered as NH4 and was locally known as the Poonamallee High Road. Originally built to connect Fort St. George to a British military installation some 23 kilometers west of the city, it remained the city's longest road. When the city of Madras became the most prominent port city, arterial roads emerged from the city's center traversing in all the three directions. The roads that traversed north, west and south were respectively named
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