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Written By Sanjeev - 16 November, 2010
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Railways eyes land swap with BBMP
Sources in the Railways told Deccan Herald that if the deal goes through, the service yard/line in the City station, along with the coach yard near platforms 4 and 10 will be shifted making room for more platforms.
Sources in the KSRTC said with the Metro construction beginning in Majestic, the KSRTC buses are left with no parking space and are being diverted to Shantinagar, NGEF and Mysore Road.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/113209/railways-eyes-land-swap-bbmp.html
BBMP & Railways should do the Land Swaping so that this will be win win situtation for BBMP, Railways & Citizens. This proposal of BBMP & Railways will solve the Traffic issues arround Majestic & wil lhelp Railways to go forward for world class station and COmmuter Rail.
KSRTC wants Land due to disturbance of METRO and its short term. Any way KSRTC is moving its services to other locations on Mysore Road, Old Madras Road, Hebbal, Penya, Hosur Road.
So BBMP & Railways should do the Land Swaping for over all benfit. Other wise Land will get denotifed later for some ones benefit.
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Clive VanBuerle - 16 November, 2010 - 08:30
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Need to clear bottlenecks in co-ordination with railways..
bcsagar - 16 November, 2010 - 14:41
The swap with railways needs to be taken with written assurance for railway land for road widening/ corridor for now and any future projects including other parts of city .
1. *** Goods Shed Road needs to be widened to accomdate huge traffic in this narrow bylanes.
2. Widening of road from Oaklipuram church to Krishna flour mills and further on Platform road up to mantri mall. ( Central )
3. Some Binny mills land needs to be retained for road widening of Sirsi circle - magadi road part of core inner ring road.
Binny mills land can be given to railways with review of their project blueprint.
KSRTC should shift most operations to Satellite terminus in outskirts and also use efficiently existing land. ( recently saw tender for Peenya satellite Bus stand ).
clear Slums/ encroachments of Railways land & put it to good use
bcsagar - 16 November, 2010 - 19:14
The Railways also holds lot of land, but you see lot of encroachments by slums and also overly spread out residential quarters & dump yards inside.
So a review of proposed expansion of railways should be done, that they take up work and amenities that benefit common railway user.
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