Learning about Chennai Metro | The Alt School | Adyar | Homeschool | Field Trip | Beyond Classroom |

Описание: Chennai Metro

We were learning about rail transport in our classrooms and decided to explore it further. That’s how this field trip happened.

Did you know?

1. Chennai Metro is the first to be on the tracks in Southern India.
2. This is the 4th longest Metro System in India
3. It has over 40 stations across Chennai
4. The first train was operated by A Preethi, a 28 year old diploma in engineering. She was specially trained for this purpose
5. On an average it has a daily ridership of over 2.6 lakh passengers.

We learnt all this and more about its operations, emergency exists; the station layout; the metro line planning etc, at the metro station control room.

Our children realised that there is so much of hard-work and coordination required to get this system up and running. It’s the hardwork , continuous planning done by Professional Planners, Engineers both from India and abroad who were/are part of its planning and implementation.

While construction, It is so tough to have the roads dug up, traffic diverted in peak arterial roads, arduous traffic management, managing labourers, ensuring safety for all. There’s so much that goes into the construction of a Metro Rail System.

We are sure , form now on, our homeschoolers will request their families to think twice and be more empathetic before they start complaining about the the traffic on road due to Metro Construction :)

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