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By Express News ServiceCHENNAI: The 12-year-delay in construction of subway at Korukkupet railway station has been putting motorists in risk every day. This was proved right on Tuesday when a woman and her twin children narrowly escaped from being mowed by a running train. The MEMU fast train plying from Nellore to Chennai ran over the vehicle and was later stopped by the local pilot. In 2007, the Chennai Corporation proposed to build a vehicular subway connecting the Ennore High Road with Kannan Street in Korukkupet. Later, though railways and Chennai Corporation agreed to build the vehicular subway at 50-50 cost-sharing basis, the works failed to take off owing to fund crunch..