OMR Rider

    It was Rajnikanth before, now it is Thala Ajith's turn. Recently Ajith bought a piece of land on OMR for building separate houses for his cook, gardener,driver and maids. He also registered the land under their individual names so that they are the owners now.Quite a few internet articles are speaking on this generous stint of Ajith. That he has chosen OMR to buy the land is a great news for OMR Riders! With the real estate prices booming up on OMR , this should have cost a fortune for Ajith. Generous stint indeed! The Bhoomi Pooja:        The Bhoomi Pooja for this land was done recently. Ajith did not attend though.He was busy shooting for his upcoming film Veeram.His wife Shalini preceded the function and did the formalities. Just few weeks back Ajith took a ride on OMR and ECR spreading awareness on safety in driving( Ajith on OMR! ). He has followed that with this surprise, a generous one! 

                                                               With almost 25000 IT professionals working in Tata Consultancy Services alone ,Siruseri IT park invites so many people to travel through OMR daily.Since Siruseri is outside Chennai , almost everyone spends huge amount of time for travel.Most of them take company transportation services.Including those almost 200 buses traverse the IT Corridor daily.I stay in Velachery and take my company bus.On days when i cannot afford it , i take 570 MTC bus (there is an A/C bus too under the same route). Recently MTC released 570S which goes inside the park as well.The following are the bus routes available connecting Siruseri IT Park with other parts of Chennai.(Hover over the route number to know source and destination - click to find the route details) ...

                                                             The following are the schools present in and around Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR). If you find any correction / addition please provide it in the comments section: 1) GT Aloha Mandir     http://www.gtalohaschools.org/ View Larger Map 2) RMT International School http://www.rmtis.com/ View Larger Map 3) APL Global School http://www.aplglobalschool.com/ View Larger Map 4)Parent Choice International School http://www.parentchoice.in/ View Larger Map 5)BVM Global School http://www.bvmglobal.org/index.aspx View Larger Map 6)Vaels Billabong High International School http://www.vaelsbillabonghigh.com/home.htm View Larger Map 7)Gateway Schools http://www.gatewayschools.in/ View Larger Map 8)PSBB Millenium School htt...

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image just for representation Taking a ride on OMR can be exhausting or cool depending on the traffic and climate. At times it is fatal too , there are quite a number of accident cases in OMR in recent times.The most recent  one was when two engineering students died on the road when their bike hit a lorry. These kind of incidents have made officials in engineering colleges to ban students riding bike to their colleges. No more can students have a bike ride to engineering colleges on OMR , they will be asked to go home or bring their parents to re enter  college again. This comes strict on the students who rely on bikes to come to college.                      The alternate transport suggested to students is to take public transport.There are a huge number of buses plying on OMR daily , so waiting for transport would not be a major concern.There is no need to pay...

                               OMR has seen a real estate boom in recent years and these are few of the real estate builders establishing themselves along the road: 1. Akshaya pvt limited 2. Hiranandani Upscale 3.Mantri Developers 4.X S Real 5.Puravankara 6. L& T Constructions 7. DLF Group 8.Olympia Group 9.Radiance Realtors 10.Vijay Shanthi Builders 11.Ayush builders 12.Naveen Construction 13.Millenium foundations 14.Suryavardhan Estates Pvt Ltd 15.Jain Housing and Constructions 16.RAMS Builders 17.Singapore based Ascendas 18.Bangalore based RMZ 19.Arihant 20.Doshi & Doshi 21.Rajyog 22.Prince Foundations Ltd

Pin Code of Old Mahabalipuram Road             603103

Can you spot OMR in the below satellite view of South Chennai? By w:user:PlaneMad (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons The first two are quite misleading , but is the third parallel road! that is OMR. The roads starting from left are: 1.ECR (East Coast Road 2. Buckingam Canal 3.OMR (Old Mahabalipuram Road) Below is the map of old mahabalipuram road from Google Maps: View Larger Map OMR stretches over a distance of 20.1 km from Madhya Kailash to Siruseri which was built as part of Phase I and Phase 2 which is under construction covers a distance of 26.8 km from Siruseri to Poonjeri where it joins East Coast Road, That makes OMR almost a 50 km long highway!          Traffic at any time in OMR can be found here: Traffic at OMR Now Happy Ride!