After cases of tiles falling off the ceiling at stations, the Chennai Metro has decided against using them as roofing material in stations along Anna Salai.
According to sources in the Chennai Metro Rail Limited, a decision had been been taken not to use tiles for the ceiling on two stretches — AG-DMS to Saidapet and Washermanpet to Chennai Central. “Instead, we thought we can just paint the ceiling for the six stations on these two stretches. The issue of tiles falling from the ceiling will not arise in future,” an official said.
Last month, a ceiling tile came crashing down, leaving a passenger injured at the Shenoy Nagar Metro station. Before that, there was another incident of a tile falling at the Egmore Metro station.
Soon after that incident, officials decided to remove all tiles that they suspected were loose; they took out more than 50 tiles across all underground stations in the city.
Apart from this issue, the Metro has also been saddled with cracked glass panels. But since the panels are made of toughened glass, the shards remain within the frame and do not fall off.
