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Written By silkboard - 23 October, 2009
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Talking the popular subject of cramped commutes, in the middle of cribs and geek talk, we never put out our visions, Our vision, as in the end result if some things we wish for were to come true. Yes, no city level technical gyan etc - personal dreams. Let me start with my route.
Facts first.
- I live in Whitefield. My office - Bagmane Tech Park?
- Take my car to work 90% of the times. Carpool or bus the rest of time.
- Why car? Takes less time than the bus. Bike is other option, family wont let me, as it is deemed unsafe.
- I hate to drive, hate to operate the car. Useless peice of metal, depreciating asset by the day, and hassle to maintain in general.
- 13 kilometer commute takes an average of 40-50 minutes. That is avg speed of 15-19 km/h
So what do I want? Predictable time everyday. Happy with 30-35 mins.
Scenario 1a, 1b
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- Bicycle/Walk up to nearest bus stand on Varthur Road (5 mins)
- Next bus to HAL Airport - 15 mins
- 5 mins wait + Shuttle to office 10 mins total 15 mins
- Or Bicycle this part (once in a while) - 15 mins
- All done in 35 mins
Scenario 2. Yes, we all love trains. So:
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- Walk up to Varthur Road bus stand. (5 mins)
- Bus to Marathahalli (5-10 mins)
- Catch next local to C V Raman Nagar Station !! (10 mins)
- Take a quick shuttle to Bagmane Tech Park (5-10 mins)
- All done in 30-35 mins.
PS: 1 is very doable. And so is 2 many people say.
COMMENTS
silkboard - 26 October, 2009 - 17:46
In the middle of all the noise, nobody bothers to present what they, or rather we want. Not in terms of operational stuff like BBMP should be corruption free, people should be fined for being rash etc. A goal is different from operationalizing them. And to describe goals in transportation space in this PT starved city, smoking pipes is pretty important :)
CV Raman Nagar or Kaggadaspura station?
silkboard - 23 October, 2009 - 17:58
Probably here. who cares - kaggadasapura or CV Raman Nagar as long as shuttles take me you to the nearby area.
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silkboard - 23 October, 2009 - 17:52
Oh yes. This is sort of a proxy post to revive that old Commuter Rail Service talk.
To continue the dream - this is where Marathahalli station is, right behind the church.
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idontspam - 23 October, 2009 - 19:31
Lets see how it works for me if I used ORR.
Residence in Sanjaynagar, Office in either Electronic City or ITPL depending on day of the week.
- Walk to Bhoopasandra main road or Rajagopal road 5 minutes
- Wait for feeder 5 mins
- Feeder to Ring road 5 minutes.
- Wait for maybe a tram/BRTS, 2 mins at peak time.
- If ITPL get off at KRPuram (20 mins), If EC get off at Silkboard (35mins).
- Change over time at peak time 3 mins
- At KR Puram take ITPL trunk route bus (janti vahaana) to ITPL. 10mins since no dedicated lanes
- At Silkboard take Big10 to EC on dedicated lanes below or a point to point shuttle on the BETL - 10 mins
Total travel to ITPL around an hour, To EC about an hour and 15 mins. All travel times assumes mass transport on dedicated lanes, otherwise forget it.
What other options could there be?
If there was a north south corridor train (new colored line) or the big 10 ran end to end on dedicated lanes. Then I take feeder to bellary road in 10 mins wait time of 2 mins at peak hour then 1 hour all the way to EC. Still same time.
If I went to hebbal station and then took commuter train to Whitefield or to Heelalige and took feeder both ends then it could be interesting. Even more interesting is if the commuter train comes up on existing lines, Anekal could become a countermagnet as the train to EC continues to Anekal.
Or If I used metro... wait the nearest metro station is in Yeswantpur... dang! I am stuck to my car till all those dedicated trams and trains are run all over the city. At least around 200 kms covering all parts of the city.
blrsri - 24 October, 2009 - 03:28
Girinagar to Bagmane techpark takes lil more than an hour drive anyways..even if the traffic is normal..and using gully routes!
Bad traffic makes it upto 2 hours sometimes!
I am one of those eagerly waiting for the metro to come up..dream to hop on at the mysore rd station and get down at byp..
However plan to use the 2010 metro line from byp to mg road..hopefully they will run shuttles from byp to cv raman nagar end of next year when the mg rd - byp lines open...no time saving expected..stress free commute could be!
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