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Written By Naveen - 21 August, 2010

Bangalore Namma Metro Meeting Action BMRC Feeder Service Transportation public transport Metro Rail Phase2

The meeting was delayed & began only at 4.40PM since BMRC officials were busy till then. Flwg items discussed & status advised by BMRC :

1) BMTC feeder services will be operated upon commissioning of Metro for 3km distances from all stations. Ticketing will be made common for feeder buses & Metro. Smart cards with online recharge facilities will be made available.

2) Passenger access at all stations will be by way of overhead skywalks /bridges from parking lots where parking is being made available, such as the larger /terminal /important stations.

3) At Yesvantpur, skywalk will be provided between metro & inter-city station. Due to land restrictions, parking area cannot be extended /provided, other than what is already available with SWR. Since TTMC is too far, it is not being covered for pedestrian access. Feeder bus services will be used to connect TTMC with metro station at Yesvantpur.

4) Interface between KSRTC /BMTC will be provided at Peenya.

5) Tunnel boring of UG sections will commence in Nov or Dec-10. Reach-3 (ie. Sampige Rd to Peenya) will become operational by Dec-2011. Ph-1 is expected to be fully completed /operational by March-2013.

6) Since depot infrastructure will be unavailable until tunnelling is over for reaches 2 & 4, they are engaged in brainstorming sessions for finding ways to operate trains on other reaches before tunnel works have been completed, particularly Reach-4 (KR Mkt to Puttenahalli). The idea is to carry out daily maintenance /servicing whilst the trains are stopped on tracks or at stations during the night.

7) They do not plan to operate dedicated buses between reaches as a stopgap arrangement.

8) Court stays for Vidhana Soudha UG Stn & Cricket stadium area is not a concern for them since they expect it to be cleared up soon.

9) Connecting ITPL will happen only in ph-2.

10) Ph-2: There will be route extensions from all four ends (ie. Mys Rd to Kengeri, Puttenahalli to PRR, Nagasandra to Int'l Exhibition center & Byp to ITPL). Also, two new routes are being explored: IIM to Nagawara & RV Rd to Electronic city. The DPR will soon be completed & routes finalized for ph-2.

COMMENTS

Development of Intermodal Transit Hub,Opposite Yeshwantpu METRO

Sanjeev - 16 November, 2015 - 11:09

Report was submitted 28th Mar 2012 to IDD  but no progress

Development of  Intermodal  Transit Hub,  opposite Yeshwanthpur METRO station by integrating METRO station, Yesvanthpur Railway station, BMTC and KSRTC

Project Site: The site identified for the development of Intermodal Transit Hub (ITH) presentlyowned by the Karnataka Food & Civil Supplies Corporation (KFCSC). The site isopposite to theYeshwanthpur Railway station along the service road on NH-4 (Tumkur Highway)

http://www.iddkarnataka.gov.in/docs/16a.Yeshwantpur.pdf

This was best  proposal by IDD and  would have made big difference to METRO usage and roadn decongestion.  GOK and GOI bothn have messed it and lost an good opportunity.

Good  proposals in GOK are finding best place in steel almera. Very unfortunate. 

GOK is spending Crores of Rupees on TENDER SURE, other METRO  acitivites not related to transport, road widening.

Some common sense in GOK could have made big difference at Yesavnthpur and for METRO ridership.

Dystopian vision for Namma Metro

xs400 - 16 November, 2015 - 12:12

There is a big flaw in our thinking - Namma Metro when it arrives will not be the Metro you see in Europe, but our own Desi Metro (or does "Namma Metro" say it all?!).

 

  1. Metro will not follow any schedule (we will throw away this alien concept and bring in our own concept of time)
  2. Metro will not be fast - why follow rules on the Metro when we dont on the road? BMRCL employees will stop the train anywhere to drop or pick up their buddies.
  3. No signals or no protocols, each driver will decide if he should stop or just ram through - accidents every day.
  4. Driver will decide if he wants to stop at stations
  5. There seems to be enough space besides the track to run 2 wheelers and may be even autos - expect it to happen soon
  6. Some points are great for an evening celebration - VIP weddings, or puja pandal on the tracks.
  7. A/C will be switched off, because - Namma Metro is already the costliest in the world and we need to recoup our losses
  8. Special track for Auto wallahs and cab drivers displaced by the metro. Of 2 tracks, 1 will be reserved for 'locals'.
  9. Garbage will make its way into Namma Metro (and why not?)
  10. Vendors will be allowed to cook and sell (after all they are a formidable vote bank) on the Metro
  11. Local slums will be sold to developers for a handsome amount and Metro stations will be allotted to the "homeless" for shelter
  12. There will be ticket checking and also "outsiders" will have to pay more.
  13. Metro will be jam packed and no one will travel on it except politicians' bodyguards and their friends
  14. Metro will be abandoned for months as there will be a shortage of "electricity"
  15. Ticket counters will not be open at all times, buy tickets when the window is open (if you can, that is) there will be a huge queue at all times
  16. There will be plenty of free travel as tokens will be counterfeited easily
  17. In the post-Modi era, Metro will be a symbol of westernization and the local groups will stop the Metro on any pretext
  18. Some overhead tracks will collapse, because of exceeding design loads

Hey, this is all very positive  because, I'm assuming the Metro will be completed.

 

 

Last KM

pathykv - 25 August, 2010 - 02:23

It is quite clear that BMTC is not willing to help in the last KM.

It is uptp the Govt. (Transport Dept) to deploy private operators for this service or form a separate corporation for this purpose.

K.V.Pathy

 I was taking few pics of the

ksnandan - 28 August, 2010 - 05:50

 I was taking few pics of the lalbagh station from a near by road, and the security guard stopped me from taking anymore pics.

I clicked this , before i was stopped.

 

since Aug 2010, BMRCL has not move other then cost sharing

Sanjeev - 11 October, 2015 - 05:54

3) At Yesvantpur, skywalk will be provided between metro & inter-city station. Due to land restrictions, parking area cannot be extended /provided, other than what is already available with SWR. Since TTMC is too far, it is not being covered for pedestrian access. Feeder bus services will be used to connect TTMC with metro station at Yesvantpur.

Regarding skywalk at METRO to Yesvanthpur station,  both SWR and BMRCL  have not move an inch during this 6 years time,  result is poor patronage at Yesvanthpur station with just 2000 foot falls which is even way below the any good BMTC bus stops.

Here latest Indian Express cover this : 

YESHWANTPUR:The proposed foot overbridge (FOB) connecting Yeshwantpur Railway Station to Yeshwantpur Metro Station is unlikely to materialise in the near future with the Railways and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) refusing to come to an agreement.

According to the plan, the nearly 100-metre bridge will start from the east end of the Metro station, pass above the taxi and autorickshaw stands outside the railway station and join the existing FOB on platform six. The railway FOB connects all the platforms in the station. According to top officials, Metro wants the Railways to bear half the construction cost but the latter is willing to give nothing more than its consent for the project.

It also looks as though BMRCL is not actively pursuing its own idea due to the shockingly poor patronage at its Yeshwantpur station. The station figures in Reach

3 and 3A, inaugurated on March 1 last year, which connects Peenya Industry to Sampige Road station. BMRCL Managing Director Pradeep Singh Kharola told City Express that they would continue to hold talks with Railways on cost sharing. “This FOB will benefit commuters using Metro services as well as those using trains. The project cost needs to be shared,” he said.

According to an official source, the project will cost around Rs 4 crore. Lakshman Singh, Divisional Railway Manager (Works), Bengaluru Division, said, “We have held three rounds of talks since 2012. The original idea was that Railways should give Metro consent as it (FOB) will pass through its property.” Insisting that Railways does not require the FOB, he said, “Metro is a new development in this area. We will not share the project cost as Metro is the one that requires the overbridge.”

Singh added that Railways has already assisted BMRCL by giving it a huge chunk of its land at a highly subsidised rate for the construction of the Metro station in Yeshwantpur.

POOR RESPONSE AT METRO STATION

Yeshwantpur Metro station sees a footfall of nearly 2,000 a day, which is way short of the target, said U A Vasant Rao, Chief Public Relations Officer, BMRCL. “We estimated a passenger traffic of around 40,000 a day but the response has not been along expected lines.” However, passenger traffic is expected to soar when Phase I of Namma Metro is completed, he added.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Bridge-Work-Stalled-as-Railways-Metro-Haggle-in-Yeshwantpur/2015/10/10/article3071489.ece

Where is Urban Development Minister Venkaya Naidu ??? does he know this how Officials  of SWR and METRO are playing and wasting time and they have no respect for commuters.

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