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 looking at the way announcements are being made about new metro routes its crazy..blr south is blessed..er..cursed with many metro routes..the latest being..

"A detailed project report (DPR) is being prepared for another stretch of the Metro Rail between RV Road and Electronic City for submission to the HPC"

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/state-okays-metro-rail-extensions-942

Understand Mr AnanthKumar stays near there..but that doesnt mean we need another metro line there..and considering the space available there..they will encroach on Lalbaugh more now..i.e if they do this..apart from that the plan is nothing less than crazy!

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The RV Road : e-City route talk is just premature speculation. Like srinidhi mentions, it may be due to polical factors that a such a route is being studied, but unless the surveys back that up with significant traffic projections, it won't happen. Decisions change a lot during the feasibility study as we have been seeing for phase 2 which is still evolving - if it was completely nailed down, we would have seen an official announcement rather than just these inside leaks that Deccan Chronicle seems to manage (good for them).

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 It is a nuisance to extend the RV Road Metro Line which in turn will be extended to Puttenahalli and then to EC as speculated, the IIM-B line could be extended to EC via Bannerghatta, Anekal.

RV Road Metro extension will be like beating around the bush. Think of the cost @ Rs 200 crore per km of elevated Metro, every km added extra will be huge investment. Routing should be short and sensible. 

Koramangala IRR is one of the high density corridor. MRT project either Metro / Mono / Bus lanes along this alignment is a high necessity.

If  Kheny starts a public transport on NICE peripheral road, probably a light rail on the green space in the median of peripheral road, it would be the best option to link EC. To start with, even buses on NICE peripheral road should be good since congestion is less.

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 Naveen,

The reason I said this is because the possible route is to turn left at RV teachers college towards Ashoka Pillar..and as I can recall the only way for it is to turn towards Nimhans road..travelling all along the walls of Lalbaugh..

..and thats where the concern is..the turns/curves will lead to encroachments..as well as any stations that come up..maybe around Siddapura lalbaugh gate.. 

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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/city-connect-metro-just-got-bigger-739

Once complete, a proposed new alignment by Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation from IIM-B to Nagavara could cut through the congestion that currently plagues commuters attempting to negotiate Bannerghatta Road, Shivajinagar, Tannery Road and Nagavara.

As Phase 1 gathers steam, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has approved the new 21.1 km metro line, estimated to cost a whopping Rs 5,421 crore.

The work will be taken up along with metro phase 2, which is the extension of East-West and North-South corridors. The state’s high-powered committee has also approved the extension of metro alignment from Hesaraghatta cross to Bengaluru International Exhibition Centre in North and up to Puttenahalli in the South, Kengeri in the West to ITPL in the East.

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