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Written By idontspam - 5 June, 2009

Bangalore Bangalore Planning Analysis public transport

There is growing realization that environment is going to play a big part in the microclimate of fast growing cities. The trend therefore in some well planned cities is to move transport underground. For example in Stockholm the orbital roads, the equivelant of our ring road, is being built underground for most parts. The new citybanan trains are also going underground. Their blue line is already underground for large parts. This allows the surface to be used for greenery. They are increasing public transit in inner city while increasing capacity to new areas which will take the expanding population.

Bangalore may have already planned overhead metro in the inner city but we need ahead for the next 30 years. It may make sense to start going underground if we are adding people movers. If we have personal and mass traffic projections for the next 30 years based on a GDP and population growth rate, we should be able to plan accomodation and commute options right now and start building mass transport connectivity to the outlier cities.

 

 

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Konkan example..

srinidhi - 6 June, 2009 - 00:39

maybe piggybacking on trains may really not be a far fetched idea..I have heard this with our own konkan railway that E. Sreedharan built..

Trucks dont want to do anymore the hazardous journey in the ghats and instead sit on trains!

Here is a very good video of whats in place today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNwy9cNsULk 

Commuter Rail

idontspam - 5 June, 2009 - 11:13

It is dissapointing we dont have a dedicated, frequent (15 to 30 mins frequency) commuter rail system from Bangalore to cities within 1 hour distance. IR/SWR wont do it and are also unable to share their lines for this purpose. What options do we have now?

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Microclimate Vs Global Environment

psaram42 - 5 June, 2009 - 11:48

 The meanings of the above two terms are self evident. I think that the present concern is about the global environment. Of course one would like to have good local environment, in the city of Bangalore. However the greater question now facing us is the global one. By transferring transport under ground, I am afraid that the basic threat to global environment is not going to be alleviated. Correct me if I am wrong.

Sustainability  is the present day catch word. By 2030 I am afraid mass transportation too will not be the solution for global climate change.

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Not wrong but inapplicable

idontspam - 5 June, 2009 - 14:05

By transferring transport under ground, I am afraid that the basic threat to global environment is not going to be alleviated. Correct me if I am wrong

No you are not wrong, but you have moved my solution for microclimate, which I am trying to focus on and applied it to the larger global warming which I deliberately avoided. This is NOT a global warming solution. This is purely a method to find balance and create offsets at the surface. The point clearly being, sustainability need not come at the cost of expanding transport solutions. 

Greater Bangalore may still have a decent green cover but the inner city microclimate is out of whack. Expressways, corridors and mass transit require larger space that will infringe pedestrian friendly city streets. Going underground helps retain transport options enabling green offsets on the surface in the same areas.

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Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 9 June, 2009 - 09:37

 

Thampan Sir,

Please have a look at :http://sunlightexpertvasanth.carbonmade.com/

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sunlight_expert_vasanth/

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- it envisages savings of misused electricity during day time to light up the interirors of homes and business places, banks, govt. offices
 
 
- one classic example is BESCOM misusing electricity during day time - one can experience this just by standing near the Cauvery Statue in front of Cauvery Bhavan and looking up to see hundreds of lights burning inside almost all the floors of their offices.  There are very good box type designs outside the windows where these deflectors can be convenient placed to deflect the sun's infinite rays on to the ceilings of those offices and create bench marks for others.  But despite having given a demo in that office, their response has been lukeworm. 
 
 
As you will find from my URL - there are tech-savvy models also available for those who can afford them.  Futuristic developments in the offing include
 
 
- no human intervention
- suntracked mirrors;
- Light through PVC pipes -  economical model
- satellite based super sensitive photovoltaic cells captured power generation models with laser beam converted energy supply model
 
 
- Will be happy to have comments
 
 
- Vasanth Mysoremath 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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