Trams Bus CITY PULSE Monorail Mini-bus Trams were operated in what used to (current usage - 56 lakh passengers a day) be called Madras between the docks Realising the need for a State-owned EVOLUTION OF ’S and the inland areas, carrying goods company in the field of motorised and passengers. When the system bus transport, the city bus service PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM The State government is in the began operation on May 7, 1895, it was began operation process of identifying a bidder the first electric tram system in . in 1946 under The GBS underwent several (current usage - 80,000 passengers a day) structural transformations MRTS to operate a monorail network the name which also reflected in its In the 1980s, the State government began The current MRTS spanning 111-km. The A fleet of 200 mini-buses Government titles which kept on planning for a new elevated railway line network of 21 consortiums in contention will proposed to ply in the city's Bus changing - State Transport stations that of Madras, Tamilnadu inside the city since the suburban lines be announced this November. residential hubs. They would Service Arasu Pokkuvarathu, left central and south Madras largely extends up to act as link services to the (GBS) Pallavan Transport untouched. After much delay, phase-I began The city bus fleet grew nearest bus or railway Corporation and finally operations on from a mere two in 1946 terminus, thereby easing the Metropolitan of MRTS connecting Beach station and Transport Corporation. opened to the public in 1997. November 19, 2007. to over 3,000 by 2008. access to public transit. 1895 1946 1953 1972 1997 2001 2007 2008 2009 2011 FUTURE PROPOSALS

The tram company The Pallavan While the Beach- Work on two Metro Rail Monorail A 10-km Suburban EMU went bankrupt in Transport Tambaram EMU metro rail services are Metro line from (current usage - 10 lakh passengers a day) The train service 1950 and the system Corporation, service carried corridors, projected to roll to On April 2, 1931, Sir George Fredrick was far ahead of closed on April 12, precursor to about 30 lakh totalling out by 2014. Ashok Nagar is its time. Through 1953. At its height in present day MTC, passengers a year Four corridors expected to go Stanely, then Governor of Madras, most of the 1900s, 45-km in inaugurated the electric suburban the city essentially 1921, there were 97 was established in 1931, the figure length, were have been operational by railway service between Madras grew along its cars running on in 1972 with a fleet rose to 23.1 crore inaugurated identified as December, Beach and Tambaram. suburban rail 24 km of track. of 1,029 buses. passengers by 2001. part of Phase-I. 2015. system. in June 2009. Photos: Archive Compiled by: Ajai Sreevatsan Infographics: R.Prathap Illustrations: Venu