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Written By sanjayv - 30 December, 2009
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There was an article in The Hindu today citing an announcement by Shri K. H. Muniyappa, MoS Railways- see link here.
Several items were of interest to the ongoing rail related discussions here. Unfortunately, this covers a broad swathe of topics. Some Bangalore related highlights of the report were.
- Track-doubling would be taken up on Yeshwanthpur-Yelahanka and Yelahanka-Channasandra sections at a cost of Rs. 125 crore. The railway authorities had taken up the final location survey.
- Subways at road over-bridges in Lingarajapuram, Banasawadi, Hebbal, Fraser Town and other places in the city
- Road over-bridges would be built at Kodigena Halli, Sarjapur and Boopasandra crossings
- Road over-bridges and under bridges would be built at Jalahalli across the ring road, Nagawara, Byappanahalli, Kengeri, Bapujinagar and Allalasandra
- Work on the road over-bridge at Whitefield would be completed by March 2010
- Widening of Bennigana Halli road under-bridge on Bangalore-Krishnarajapuram (NH 4) would be completed by May 2010
- The Bangalore-Whitefield-Krishnarajapuram track-quadrupling work could not be implemented as the State Government had not decided on commuter rail transportation and cost sharing
More State related details are in the article.
Some comments: The bridge at Jalahalli is also in all sort of BDA documents, but probably also needs some Railway budgetary support and sanctions to move forward. Much needed, speaking as someone who suffered there only yesterday. Is there a plan to widen the ring road from the Jalahalli level crossing to NH4?
ROB at Whitefield - See a new deadline, this time by the minister. Will someone volunteer to send him a paper clipping and photographs at the end of March 2010?
See a summary of Praja discussions here.
Benninganahalli Road Under Bridge - this is confusing. Wasn't there a lot of talk about how this is a very complicated affair and needs 2 years to finish? I can see that sections have been cast to "push" in place on either side of the existing bridge, but one section may interfere with the on-ramp to the ring road, from a quick visual inspection.
Ben-ridge discussions on Praja. here, here and a compendium here.
Finally, now the railways is okay with Commuter rail, but the State Govt is the bottle neck?
Commuter rail Praja discussions here.
COMMENTS
idontspam - 30 December, 2009 - 19:59
Point 7 in the blog is important to note. If state govt cant take the lead and put the money where the mouth is it is going to be difficult. Rail infrastructure projects take time so BSY should quit moping/confessing and start a SPV for railway network with IR/SWR & State Govt as partners.
Sanjeev - 31 December, 2009 - 05:29
Its false statement by Shri K. H. Muniyappa, MoS Railways as one can see in the IDD’s website the budgetary allocations to the department for the year 2007-2008 includes Rs. 10 crores for CRS for Bangalore ( point 19 under Railways Infrastructure ) Following links can be checked.
http://www.idd.kar.nic.in/allocation.html
http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1224-bengaluru-commuter-rail-plans?page=2
We request Praja to take up this issue as Railway Minister is passing buck to State Govt & intern State is passing the buck to Railway. Why Shri K. H. Muniyappa, MoS Railways is telling that state has to decise, when same issue in Weste Bengal or Bihar, Mamath or Lalu were fully giving from Railway budget, our state minister is not having any say under Mamtaha, as one can see that Duronto express was started with one moth of announcement, Rajadhani which was announced in Budget is not yet started. If the issue with Bangalore-Whitefield-Krishnarajapuram track-quadrupling work, whats problem in staring Local trains between
Bidadi to Devnahalli, Whitefiled to Devanahalli, Yesvathpur to Hosur, Bangalore city to Nelamanagala.
One can see bad state of Foot over Bridge ( new one ) at Yesvathpur where their is no footover Bridge to cross the Railway Platform & NH-4 in single go & same thing is applicable at Cantonment Station too. Also Yelahanka station is also same.
Even when SWR has announced 2 minitue stopage at Yesvathpur for trains towards Hubli, same has not been incorporated at IRCTC website.
All these shows the srroy state of railway facilty at Karanataka & 5th largest city of India.
Kindly request PRAJA to file petition with Shri K. H. Muniyappa, MoS Railways to take up the Local Trains ( CRS ) for Bangalore.
Even same things is applicable for Hubli Dharwad twin city where local Trains can be started.
idontspam - 31 December, 2009 - 10:32
the budgetary allocations to the department for the year 2007-2008 includes Rs. 10 crores for CRS for Bangalore
Allocating monies not a CRS make. DRUCC is a user comittee and cannot take up work. There needs to be a formal state committee to push for implementation and workout issues with passing the buck, should be to resolve issues like who will fund how much, who will do the work, implementation and ultimately monitor the running of the CRS by a private party.
The SPV could be BMRC (easier for coordination) or another SPV with IR/SWR as stakeholders. Swalpa adjusting with interstate services as locals will severely constrain feasibility as it will be extremely inflexible.
Local Train ( CRS ) for Bangalore
Sanjeev - 1 January, 2010 - 03:26
What your saying makes sense as some SPV to be made under the responsibilty of BMRCL. Also their should be single ticketing system integrated with METRO, CRS & BMTC so that users can have monthly pass or daily ticket to travel / switch over smoothly from one mode of transport to other.
Swalpa adjusting nature is reason for not taking off the CRS system for Bangalore & all of us are suffering with long travell time & pollution. When state govt is taking 50% cost of rail projects in the state, state should get first benifit, if it comes to WB or Bihar do they agree same thing. You have seen when local train is not given priority on the track in Bihar or WB, they burn or Damage the rail property & no criminal case recodred???
What needs to done from all of us so that Stae Govt & Railway ministry take the responsibilty so that things will start moving in the correct direction. Also I feel even citizens & Corporates will be willing to donate money to get the CRS started. So their should not be any funding problem & also this is for comman social transport system, no one should look for profit making, as we want improvement in the Locla transport system.
Can we all of us file petition to Chief Minister / Transport Minister / Railway minister for this. we can not keep mute spectetor and allow things go bad. As MTERO work is in full swing & city limts have expanded, Either METRO can not be complet solution or HSRL only for airport, what about citizens travelling between Devanahalli, Chikballapur, Dodballapur, Bidadi, Kolar, Nelamangala to Bangalore, other parts of the city. Also MTERO woll take another cool 5 years to complete & HSRL will take next 10 years. This means we wll keep on suffering on traffic problem even when we have well connected rail netwrok within city limits.
Let us know what can be done from all of us on this regard.
Updates from the Railway Minister
jaipath - 30 December, 2009 - 17:48
I welcome the announcments made by MoS for railways K.H.Muniyappa regarding railways projects in bangalore. But, I think all these announcements have been made keeping mind BBMP elections. These announcements are only to woo the voters of BBMP election and nothing concrete is going to happen.
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