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Written By n - 26 February, 2010
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Refer to the proceeds of this BMLTA meeting. Go to section 6/7 - there is no mention of Scomi/Geodesic. Why would IDD again prepare the DPR if Geodesic already submitted one? Different alignment?
See meeting notes in full here:
Subject 6/7: Development of Monorail project for Bangalore under ‘Swiss
Challenge’ as proposed by M/s. Scomi Geodesic
- CTTP for Bangalore had proposed 60 Kms alignment of Monorail, out of that 29 Kms is being considered for Metro Phase II. IDD to prepare DPR for remaining 31 kms.
- Authority accorded approval for preparing Feasibility Study for
development of Monorail from Majestic to Agaram (14.2 Kms), on the
basis of the recommendation of the Sub-Committee on Monorail. Principal
Secretary, IDD will speedup the progress in this regard.
The meeting was held back in November. Any progress!?
COMMENTS
Mono/Light Rail Routes that were tendered
ashwin - 21 May, 2010 - 06:50
Quoting from the tender document (found here http://www.idd.kar.nic.in/monorail.html), the proposed routes are
Corridor 1: Hebbal to J.P. Nagar (Bannerghatta Road – Ganapathi
Temple) along the western portion of outer ring road. 31 kms
Corridor 2: Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) to Toll Gate along Magadi
Road. 9kms.
So these are not the SCOMI proposed routes but 2 of the 4 routes proposed in the CTTP (iirr). The other 2 routes seem to have been dropped for overlapping with the Metro Phase 2 routes under consideration, as stated in the meeting notes quoted in the comment above.
Dropped/Deferred Routes:
Corridor 4: Hosur Road-Bannerghatta Road junction to PRR along Bannerghatta Road (15 km): This almost completely overlaps with the reported North South line of Phase 2 (Bannerghatta Road in the south, Tannery Road in the north up to Nagawara)
Corridor 3: Kathriguppe/ring road junction to National college (5 km)
This overlaps partially with the reported East-West route of phase 2, Kathirguppe to Whitefield, although some recent reports suggested that this stretch had been shelved and instead only the current E-W line would be extended from Byappanahalli to Whitefield.
srinidhi - 21 May, 2010 - 10:10
These mono/light rail plans are coming from Bangalore Airport Rail Link Limited (BARL), whose MD is Madhu V..this is part of the grand airport link projects that govt has embarked on!
Lets see who gets it working faster!
srinidhi - 19 June, 2010 - 02:46
Was wondering if it will be Scomi's talk only..however Hitachi has now stepped in the arena..they have a monorail history and a good track record..so hopefully good should come from it..
Sanjeev - 19 June, 2010 - 03:31
So called Mono Rail project is for whose interest, their is no public interest. Its between some Govt dept & technology owned by Monorail.
Mono rail will be good if they just restrict within BIAL premises as its basically a toy train and not for the mass public. If this is done in city, be prepared enjoy worst then travelling by standing in BMTC buses and fares will be 6-8 times of higher then BMTC. All these companies main interest is in Real estate
For the country like India with each METRO city have crossed with population of one crore, we need no less then METRO and Commuter rail as mass public transport.
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