Dynesh Vijayaraghavan

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan

@dyneshv

Chennai/Sydney. Transport planner. Management consultant for infrastructure projects. Frequent liker of cat and dog pics. All views own.

Joined Nisan 2020

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·8h

In a week when there was yet another major bridge strike in the UK by an errant truck driver, this is a nice antidote 😃.

Railmaps@railmaps

This bridge in Brisbane doesn't give a stuff what you think. If you attempt to drive your truckasaurus more than 1.9m tall beneath this, it WILL be crushed. And trains will still run overhead like nothing happened. This is how the world should be.

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·8h

@lonestar1007 @PaariTamizhan Exactly. I'm also reminded of an English saying that you can lead the horses to water but you can't make them drink. Evalo sonnalum purinjika maataanga.

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Lonestar@lonestar1007·10h

@dyneshv @PaariTamizhan There's a colloquial saying: sevudan kaadhula sangu oodhuna kadhai

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paari@PaariTamizhan·12h

This is exactly my problem with Chennai. Spend everything but what's the outcome? Every money spent is looted in every way possible.

Vairitamil🏌🏽‍♂️@Vairitamil

@reclaimchennai Chennai stealing water from Cauvery Veeranam due to non availability of lakes to cater chennai needs. Funny part is Chennai spends crores of ruppes to renovate a simple pond. Folks get ready for seawater intrusion.

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·9h

Economic illiteracy on display 🤦🏽‍♂️. Chennai is struggling to compete with BLR and HYD on high value finance and service sector jobs. Do these people think those jobs would go to Madurai if we built a new airport there? Without a Chennai gateway, investment will go to other states.

Aspiring Madurai@MaduraiGrowth

People of other cities in Tamilnadu are happy that Parandur isn’t happening. @CMOTamilnadu please focus on Madurai, Kovai , Trichy , Tuti and Salem airport connectivity, investments will pour in all parts of TN .

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·11h

@lonestar1007 @PaariTamizhan I've written like 50 tweet replies in the past two days trying to explain this to people 😭

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Lonestar@lonestar1007·11h

@dyneshv @PaariTamizhan It's high time people realize the the tertiary sector cant be distributed like we did in the manufacturing sector, small companies maybe okay with it, but big corps would definitely want an ecosystem

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·11h

@lonestar1007 @AvisharDutta In the scenario I mean, Chennai Port in Georgetown would close to be the new CBD. That's a few hundred acres for a new business precinct. Kattupalli and KPL would be the ports for the city going forward. They already share road access and the NPAR will also link to both.

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Lonestar@lonestar1007·11h

@dyneshv @AvisharDutta But we would need that land if we were going ahead with the cbd right

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Avishar Dutta@AvisharDutta·14h

One option would been to build a CBD/Port City on Port Authority lands. Standard template for most global cities, old docks get moved out and dockyards get redeveloped. I know - Chennai port is still a very active port + port expansion in the north is diff, but just saying.

Narayanan Hariharan@narayananh

Why wouldn't the TN Govt consider repairing or reconstructing this old, broken bridge between Besant Nagar and Link Road near Marina? It would save a lot of time and ease traffic problems. #Madras

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·11h

@lonestar1007 @PaariTamizhan Yeah I wouldn't want to be judgmental. If anything TN is better than other states in this regard. We have distributed manufacturing well. But high wage services jobs are going to be in Chennai only. That's why we need the airport.

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Lonestar@lonestar1007·11h

@dyneshv @PaariTamizhan Chennai la ellarum fraud nu rural people can think, but we can't be judgemental

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·11h

@lonestar1007 @AvisharDutta Why? KPL is the best run major port in India in my experience, certainly the most efficient by some metrics (I'm a little biased as they're a former client). They were run as a corporate entity from the start (hence being a reg co instead of a trust). CPRR will connect both btw.

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Lonestar@lonestar1007·11h

@AvisharDutta @dyneshv I think chennai should do way with the kamaraj port. Or atleast make it smaller while expanding kattupalli and building a new own in the south of chennai. The CPRR should connect both.

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·11h

@lonestar1007 @PaariTamizhan It's amazing how TN is such an urban state but so many people retain parochial rural attitudes about their capital. TN is a lovely state with great culture and a broadly distributed economy, but to pretend Chennai isn't the spearhead of that is lunacy.

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Lonestar@lonestar1007·12h

@PaariTamizhan Chennai has 10million people and contributed 30% to state's gdp with <0.5% of tn's land mass. Chennaites look down on rural people bcoz of villagers being conservative and their bonding to caste. Plus rural people idealize farming while it contributes less than 20% of the gdp.

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·11h

@symsunIT @UpdatesChennai @Keerthana4VNR TN already did a great job decentralising manufacturing thru incentives. But services don't work like that. High wage finance jobs won't go to a tier 2 town. Either they will go to your metro or to another state. And without such jobs you can't grow much beyond our current level.

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IamCommonMan@symsunIT·12h

@dyneshv @UpdatesChennai @Keerthana4VNR Chennai faces severe issues with water resources, traffic, housing, waste management, & still many demand for 2nd-airport is lunacy. If we dont decentralize, then similar to Delhi, one day Chennai would become just a tourist spot & everyone would migrate to New Chennai.

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Chennai Updates@UpdatesChennai·1d

@Keerthana4VNR ma'am. You went to S.Korea recently. Even for that you had take a connecting flight as Chennai doesn't have one. Korean airports are so good. How do you expect to convince investors to come invest in TN when your capital city has a third class Airport? Speak up!!

Chennai Updates@UpdatesChennai

🚨Parandur likely to be dropped while a Sipcot will come up there. A GO is expected shortly as per Hindu. Chennai will continue to suffer. Good luck finding a site which has no farms & water bodies. You have already pushed TN/Chennai back @CMOTamilnadu 👎 hindutamil.in/news/tamilnadu…

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·11h

@streetfrontier Anna Library is great but I have to say, even local libraries in Sydney are amazing. Another great ex here is Sydney Park, where a 100 acre landfill was converted to an urban wetland with amazing walking tracks and a skate park. Would love to see more third spaces in Chennai.

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Street Frontier@streetfrontier·12h

@dyneshv absolutely, arts/recreation infra is under-built as compared to other items -- i wish we had more state of the libraries, art museums, preservation of historical monuments, skate parks etc..

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Street Frontier@streetfrontier·14h

What’s your definition of a liveable city?

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·12h

@vtrrk @AvisharDutta I'm sure land will not be an issue 😃.

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VTR Ravi Kumar@vtrrk·12h

@dyneshv @AvisharDutta Since cm home in Panaiyur we can build one near that.

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Avishar Dutta@AvisharDutta·14h

Glad that the airport is being dropped. It's honestly very far from the city. Why can't they look for some land in Mylapore. /s

Chennai Updates@UpdatesChennai

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·12h

@lonestar1007 @AvisharDutta In an ideal world we would never have built it. Unlike Parandur this project had better alternatives, even if we never moved the port out of its current location. We could have built an elevated road above the Ennore expressway, also solving a bottleneck in North Chennai.

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Lonestar@lonestar1007·12h

@dyneshv @AvisharDutta What will the fate of the port maduravoyal express way then? I think the gymkhana club and the island grounds would make a great cbd along with the wharf Secretariat will have to shifted for obvious reasons

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·12h

@UpdatesChennai @subashchandrant No one's against the rest of TN growing but its economic illiteracy in thinking a smaller city can replicate Parandur's impact. Without an intl hub, Chennai is barely able to compete with BLR and HYD for high wage service jobs. Do they think those jobs will go to a tier 2 city?

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Chennai Updates@UpdatesChennai·16h

@subashchandrant How on earth are even related??? Why can't you develop both?? Yaaru yaa neengalam??

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subhash@subashchandrant·1d

Good. Now it's time to develop #Trichy airport.

Chennai Updates@UpdatesChennai

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·12h

@vtrrk @AvisharDutta Having seen the way people protested against Parandur, do you really think no one living on the coast would object? And building an artificial island is an enormous job. A western-side airport is hugely better for connectivity. The HSR station expands its hinterland drastically.

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VTR Ravi Kumar@vtrrk·12h

@AvisharDutta I would suggest to create an artificial island near Chennai in Bay of Bengal and build the airport there. Or build a airport between Chennai and pondy

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·12h

@suse4u @KoushikNaarayan @UpdatesChennai That's not correct. GoI bore the full ph 1 construction cost (with GoTN acquiring land) while for ph 2 and the extension to St Thomas Mount, GoTN and GoI bore full capex in a 67/33 split. SR was not good at developing the RE potential but that also because of GoTN's CRZ rules.

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SuSe@suse4u·13h

@KoushikNaarayan @UpdatesChennai Currently Railways only does the O&M of MRTS as it was built by TM Govt so it is a net loss of TN Govt given the real estate is left to waste by S.Rly

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Chennai Updates@UpdatesChennai·18h

Good news...🥳🙌 Railway Board likely to give approval for CMRL takeover of MRTS in four to six weeks. Estimated cost of project is ₹4,500 Crs... #Chennai #MRTS Ⓜ️🚊 thehindu.com/news/cities/ch…

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·13h

@sai_whispers Nobody doubts its importance but TN has 12 mn acres under cultivation, a couple of thousand acres becoming an airport isn't going to affect your food supply. But the economic growth the airport brings will help pay for the subsidies that agriculture needs.

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Sai@sai_whispers·1d

Overhyped ? நாங்க சோறு தான் திங்கறோம், நீ எப்படி ?

Chennai Updates@UpdatesChennai

@BehindstoryA @CMOTamilnadu Airport >>> overhyped agriculture 😒

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Dynesh Vijayaraghavan@dyneshv·17h

@TNGeography @UpdatesChennai I really hope it doesn't fall into decline but some of the economic illiteracy you can see from people is worrying. Running a state is more complex than making reels and saying movie dialogue.

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Tamil Nadu Geography@TNGeography·1d

Tamil Nadu is showing all the symptoms of lower middle class economy syndrome. Those with potential will leave the state. Blamers, boomers, & IT cell influencers will fight among themselves in insta & whatsapp. It's a power game, using people emotions to mislead and gain power 😔

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Tamil Nadu Geography@TNGeography·19h

Nishan Velupillay(Australia) & Samuel Moutoussamy (Muthusamy Frenchified from DR. Congo) are two Tamil origin players playing in the FIFA world cup. Nothing for us to be proud but just a info. Rare South Indian origin players after Telugu origin Vikash Dhorasoo(2006) 1/2

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