rs(15 floors). The Koyambedu area has become a major hub of activity in Chennai City after the inauguration of the market and the bus terminus. The area is active for 24 hours in a day owing to movement of people and goods through the day.Koyambedu is connected to both the Central Railway Station and the Chennai International Airport through highways. Poonamallee High Road, a four lane highway, connects Koyambedu to Chennai Central Railway Station while Jawaharlal Nehru Road connects Koyambedu to Chennai Airport. Recently, property prices have shot up in and around the areas of Koyambedu. Koyambedu is surrounded by localities like MMDA, Vadapalani, Anna nagar, Arumbakkam, Aminjikarai and Virugambakkam.
The South Asian Federation (SAF) Games Village at Koyambedu, is a large residential complex with 760 flats. Of these, some flats come under the Government-rental scheme and the others belong to individuals and institutions including the Indian Oil, the Reserve Bank of India, the Punjab National Bank, Annapurna, Food corporation of India, Canara Bank and the SBI. Around 50-60 officers belonging to IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service reside here. The dwelling units coming under the control of the organisations such as the Indian Oil, Annapurna and the RBI present a smart picture. The development of this area had also led to a tremendous rise in the property values in this area with the value touching even 1-1.5 crores per ground.
The Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus or CMBT is a bus terminal in Chennai, India catering outstation buses. Spread over an area of 37 acre in Koyambedu, this is the largest b
us terminus in Asia[1] and is accredited with the ISO 9001:2000 quality certification.[1]
The CMBT was planned and built by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority at a cost of Rs 103 crore[2] and inaugurated on 18 November 2002 by then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Dr.J.Jayalalitha.[3] It can simultaneously station 270 buses and handle over 2 thousand buses and 2 lakh passengers a day.[2] The 36.5 acre bus terminus has an 18,000 sq ft waiting facility for passengers, a 25,000 sq ft parking space for auto rickshaws, cabs and private cars, and 16,000 sq ft parking space for two-wheelers.[2]
Terminus stations
terminus or terminal station refers to the termination of the railway line or service at that point. All platforms may be accessed without having to cross the rail tracks. This may not be true if the station yard lies behind the passenger station, but in this case the station may not strictly be regarded as a terminus.
The largest and most famous rail terminal in the United States is Grand Central Terminal in New York City, USA. Often major cities, such as London, Boston, Paris or Milan will have one or more termini, rather than routes straight through the city. Train journeys through such cities often require alternative transport (metro, bus or taxi) from one terminus to the other. Some cities, including New York, have both situations. Chicago has four major rail terminals presently in service, of which only one provides Amtrak intercity service (see Rail stations of Chicago).
A terminus is usually the final destination of trains serving the station, but this is not always the case. Where the terminus is an intermediate point on a train's it
inerary, the train must leave in the reverse direction from that of its arrival. There are several ways the train may be reversed: the railway operator may use a multiple unit, or push-pull train which can operate in either direction; use two locomotives, one at each end; or the locomotive which brought the train into the station must detach from its train and either 'run around' to the other end of the formation or be replaced at the other end by another locomotive, which takes the train out.
All of Chicago's Metra trains reverse direction in their downtown termini, either by means of push-pull or electric multiple units; The Hague Central, Netherlands uses multiple u
nit at night only; Antwerp Central, Belgium has a locomotive at one end and a passenger car with driver's cabin at the other; while Eastbourne railway station reverses trains running from Lewes to Hastings and vice-versa.
Some stations may operate a reverse service, even though the station is not a terminal, such as Redhill, for trains from Gatwick Airport to Reading; and Konstanz Bahnhof, for trains to and from Germany as well as trains to and from Schaffhausen in Switzerland.
