Future under progress

Meera Srinivasan takes a bird's eye view of the city's metro rail network, expected to be operational by 2014. View the full graphic in the story.

Rails from France, coaches from Brazil, tunnelling expertise4 from China, labour from eastern India — all to give Chennai a world class public transport system. Meera Srinivasan takes a bird's eye view of the city's metro rail network, expected to be operational by 2014. >Click here for a detailed and high res PDF .

Photos: R. Ragu

Illustration: Satwik Gade

Infographic: Prathap Ravishankar