How much cargo passes through the Chennai Airport Flyover?
Chennai International Airport Chennai International Airport (IATA: MAA, ICAO: VOMM) is an international airport serving the city of Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India and its metropolitan area. It is the fourth busiest airport in India in terms of total passenger traffic after airports at Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. It is the 49th busiest airport in Asia for CY 2016. In the fiscal year 2016-17, the airport handled over 18.3 million passengers. Over 400 aircraft movements are handled by the airport per day. Third busiest Airport in terms of cargo handling in India. The planned extension of the terminals are about to start as the union government has told that Chennai might not get its new airport soon.
Flyovers in Chennai The total road network in the city's metropolitan area is 2,780 km. With Chennai's vehicular population having experienced a surge in the late 1990s, several flyovers were built to reduce the traffic congestion in the city. Of about 15,600 million invested by the state government between 2005 and 2014, Chennai cornered a major chunk of the investment. As of 2017, there are 35 functional flyovers in the city and around 150 bridges including 12 rail over bridges, catering to the city's vehicular population of about 3.9 million, including about 600,000 cars. In addition, more than 36 flyovers are in the pipeline.