Old Mahabalipuram Road
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Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) is a road in Tamil Nadu starting from Madhya Kailash temple, Adyar, and going southward till Mahabalipuram (now called Mamallapuram).
The part of the road from Adyar till Siruseri is being converted into a six-lane highway by AZRB, a road construction company. The work was supposed to be completed by May 2006, but large parts of the road remain incomplete due to rain and other unforeseen complications.
Although OMR doesn't have much city traffic, the construction work makes it an unpleasant road to travel on.
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[edit] IT corridor
An IT corridor is being set up along OMR, with companies like Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture India, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Infosys composing it. The corridor stretches from Tidel Park in Tharamani to SIPCOT IT Park in Siruseri.
[edit] Colleges
Important colleges along OMR include Sathyabhama Deemed University, Hindustan College of Engineering, Thangavelu Engineering College, MNM Jain Engineering College,Smk Fomra Institute Of Technology.
[edit] Transportation
[edit] Bus routes
Chennai's city bus service, the MTC operates buses along OMR. Most MTC buses terminate at or before Sholinganallur, which roughly defines the official city limits. The buses that go beyond Sholinganallur are headed for Kelambakkam. These include 19B (from Saidapet), M5 (from Adyar), and 21H (from Broadway which is near Chennai Central railway station).
State buses and buses going to Pondicherry currently operate via East Coast Road instead of OMR.
[edit] Bus stops
There are two routes for the OMR road, one is from Madhya Kailash and the other from Adyar. The SRP Tools bus stop is the junction at which the road from the above two routes meet. The Adyar route is highly conjested where it goes through Thiruvanmiyur then on to the SRP Tools bus stop. From Velechery through Vijayanagar there is also a road to the SRP Tools bustop.
Important bus stops on OMR (starting from Madhya Kailash):
- Madhya Kailash
- CPT bus stop or Indira Nagar Raliway Station bus stop
- Tidel Park bus stop
- SRP Tools bus stop
- Kandanchavadi bus stop
- Thoraipakkam bus stop
- Karapakkam bus stop
- Sholinganallur bus stop
- Sathyabhama Deemed University / Chemmencherry
- Navalur bus stop
- SIPCOT IT Park bus stop
- Hindustan College of Engineering ] bus stop
- Kelambakkam bus terminus
