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Written By Vasanth - 29 November, 2014
Bangalore Infrastructure monorail Analysis
Infrastructure projects related to Projects mainly Commuter Rail, Light Rail, Monorail and BRTS is not progressing anywhere. Both the earlier BJP and Congress Governments have forgotten the CTTP reports and the recent survey done by a UK based company which already had prepared DPR for the light rail on the western half of Outer Ring Road and Magadi Road.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/dpr-for-light-rail-transit-ready/article5340139.ece and a SSC Link
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1672617
Way back in 2008, Scomi had proposed Monorail both for Mumbai and Bengaluru. Mumbai monorail is already operational, whereas Bengaluru Monorail is still in papers.
Why are our Governments in Karnataka, including old BJP and current Congress not considering any Public Transit based projects other than Metro and counting only on Metro to solve the traffic problems of Bangalore and improperly planned flyovers. There is no demand from Industrial sector like the IT companies demanding rail based transport, rather they are demanding flyovers all over the city.
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which project of CTTP2007 has seen light of day except METRO
Sanjeev - 2 December, 2014 - 07:59
Take look at CTTP 2007 proposals :
1. Suburban Rail / Commuter Rail
2. BRTS
3. Skywalks
4. Mono Rail
Except METRO nothing progressed in bangalore on Urban Transport Project and that too METRO not showing any desired results for known and unknown planning.
Inspite of last 6 years rigrous followup on Commuter Rail, no progress fro Railway Board with lack of interest from GOK at the same time. Why is that Chief Minister of Karnataka and Chief Secreatry of GOK keeping silent on this project ???
Proposal with the central government
MaheshK - 28 December, 2014 - 03:30
I believe there is already a proposal (policy now?) with the central govt regarding mono rail for cities with more than 1 million population. Most people don’t know about this. What the CM is saying is not new. Feasibility study is going on (or completed) in Mysuru for mono rail.
OTOH, I saw the tv clipping show working folks get on to train in Whitefield. It’s pathetic and our working folks deserve much better. Ladies struggling to get on to the train to go to work was horrible to see. Hope something like commuter rail would work out soon. Till I saw the clippings, I did not know the situation was that bad.
Feeder to Metro ....after 20 years (atleast)
kamalakar pandit - 1 December, 2014 - 10:30
Read this report of Mr.Lad, says LRT will act as feeder to Metro...first of all does Mr.lad knows the following
1.Metro on the ring road is planned in phase 3...it will take atleast 25 years from now on...
2.He is talking about the feeder system to the metro which will be (hopefully) done in next 25 years...what should we call this...a great visioner ?
The simple way of solving the problem on ORR is to run buses on dedicated lanes. traffic will automatically be down by 25 %.
why these common sense things do not sink to our babus.
Are they fond of using fancy names LRT, Mono, Metro...
Regards
kamal
MaheshK - 6 December, 2014 - 06:52
We are adding more vehicles than the roads can take. There is no place to widen the roads or put a new one, but we are adding the vehicles continuously. See the article in TOI.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Car-bike-sales-hit-record-high-in-Sept/articleshow/45353217.cms
Was there a trial run for BRTS? If not, why there is a delay? Is someone getting cold feet? Why people like us never get a chance to do things? I don't get it.
Heard that pgportal is more active.. Should we all lodge ?
Vasanth - 28 December, 2014 - 13:05
pgportal.gov.in is more active after Modi government as per the reports in today Kannada Prabha. Should we all login a complaint on the horrible state people are struggling to get into commuter rail.
Also we should all urge about Suburban rail for all the capital cities of India like Bengaluru, Hyderabad etc in MyGov, portal by Modiji.
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