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Written By tsubba - 24 August, 2008
Bangalore Infrastructure Namma Metro Media Reports BMRC Transportation public transport Metro Rail Phase2
Consultant appointed for Metro Phase II Anil Kumar Sastry, The Hindu Electronics City-Yelahanka, Indiranagar-Whitefield link to be important routes under second phase BMRCL confident of completing the work under first phase by 2011
The State Government recently appointed Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRCL) as the consultant for Phase II. The DMRCL is expected to submit the detailed project report in eight months, sources in the Urban Development Department told The Hindu. Even as the route alignment will have to be decided by the consultant after going through various issues, the major route on Phase II will be between Peripheral Ring Road (Electronics City) and Yelahanka with a changeover at Namma Metro’s M.G. Road Station.
The consultant will follow the Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Plan (CTTP) for Bangalore prepared by RITES, a Government of India enterprise. The CTTP had recommended construction of two corridors – one between PRR and Yelahanka and the other between Indiranagar Metro Station and Whitefield Railway Station under Metro Phase II. Under Phase II, an exclusive corridor should be built connecting PRR and Yelahanka (36 km), the plan had said. The existing singular north-south corridor will cater to the western parts of the city between Peenya and Kanakapura Road. As such, the developments coming up on the eastern side between Hosur Road and Whitefield and northern side near Thanisandra and Yelahanka need another north-south corridor, CTTP said.
The proposed corridor will cover Nagavara, Veerannapalya, Fraser Town and residential, commercial and IT industrial areas along Hosur Road. This corridor will have interchange with the airport metro to provide direct access from south and south-east Bangalore to the airport. RITES said the industrial areas, IT hubs and commercial development around Whitefield and C.V. Raman Nagar have choked the Airport Road and Whitefield Road. As such, a 19.5-km metro link between Indiranagar Metro Station and Whitefield should be built, the CTTP said. The link will have an interface with the Mysore Road-Byappanahalli corridor of Phase I. Extension
The CTTP, among other things, had also recommended extension of the north-south Corridor of Phase I up to Peripheral Ring Road from the R.V. Road Terminal (10.2 km) and the east-west corridor up to Benniganahalli from Byappanahalli (1.5 km). These two extensions, RITES said, could be taken up under Phase I itself. To substantiate the suggestion for extension, RITES said the area to the south of Jayanagar – J.P. Nagar, Banashankari and Kumaraswamy Layout are fully developed and densely populated. With Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Area Planning Authority planning to develop residential and commercial activities along the Bangalore-Mysore Expressway, the north-south commuter traffic is expected to increase substantially. Therefore, the ongoing north-south corridor under Metro Phase I should be extended to PRR via Kanakapura Road.
In all, over 140-km metro network, including the high-speed rail link between Mahatma Gandhi Road and Bangalore International Airport (33 km) and Namma Metro’s 42-km network under Phase I, is required to effectively serve the major traffic corridors of the city, RITES had said.
COMMENTS
murali772 - 24 August, 2008 - 06:37
So much of BRT within the inner city? That will mean thosands of trees on the chopper block. At the recent international PPP seminar held at IIMB, Prof Vishnuprasad Nagadevara (of IIMB) had clearly stated that BRT was not feasible in the inner city.
The BRT may be feasible on the outer ring road if a few more lanes are carved out by narrowing down the medians and the service lanes. But, how you will manage a K R Puram junction is a billion rupee question.
Muralidhar Rao
tsubba - 26 August, 2008 - 01:20
Include general public representatives in discussions
Bengloorappa - 26 August, 2008 - 05:01
What TS has not posted here is another bit of news that this time around Ms. Kiran M.Shaw, Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Mr Ramesh Ramanathan and a few others were included in the latest high-level meeting, this is certainly a step forward compared to closed-door govt. meetings, but what I an wondering is when will the time come when the govt. will include general public representatives and civic groups in discussing such projects. Because most of these participants(except maybe, Mr. Ramanathan) have a corporate agenda.
On one hand the govt. wants to hammer out a solution , but doesn't let end-users have a say. Lets say for example if civic groups were given a representation, we at Praja could contribute too. ofcourse, one problem could be disruptive and affected groups spoiling the meeting, but that can be easily sorted out.
Any plans at Praja to meet Mr Sivasailam of BMRCL soon ?
blrsri - 26 August, 2008 - 09:10
why are we planning for over connectivity all the time?
Airport Express, Metro and Elevated Expressway..what are we trying to do here?
We already made a mistake with the BETL..when all that the access to EC needed was a train, which is planned now.
The EC-Yel metro sounds like a illogical project concieved based on statements like 'it takes longer to reack airport for a flight to chennai, than starting to chennai on road the opposite way'
Or probably this is what Mohandas Pai/Devi Shetty/Ms Shaw want..since they sit on the podium with BSY all the time..Narayana Murthy/KMS screwed up hosur road with BETL and now we again have a doctor/biologist and IT person trying to decide on projects instead of transport specialists!
All we need is METRO to BIA starting from Electronic City via CSB Junction-Hosur Road-M G Road-Cantonment-Tannery Road-Hebbal-Sahakar Nagar-Yel-BIA and scrapping the airport express!
We can have it PPP!
tsubba - 24 August, 2008 - 01:49
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