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Written By blrsri - 27 April, 2008
Bangalore BRTS Light Rail suggestion LRT Metro Rail
We have seen ...
- Roads being discussed on praja and one thing that has come up is that the traffic manages to congest any space available, wide or not..
- BRTS..the current implementations are having teething issues than real problems. But there is still lot to be desired. To google BRT issues will provide many pointers to what ails BRT.
- Monorail as feeders to the metro..as the discussions have hinted its a very costly solution for a not so costly problem. The implementaitons of monorail the world over have been few and more so the successfully running ones.
What we have missed is the light rail transit option..its found that many cities accross europe and the americas use the light rail feature to decongest the roads. This provides a clean and a fast way to commute..
[Pic: a Houston LRT]
Imagine..MG road area and the light rail moves into brigade road and stops for a while to unload passengers and then moves over to Garuda mall and then back to MG road and then onto commercial street..then gets to the newly constructed multi level parking lot where foks can cahnge to their cars or wait on the LRT for the next stop to get dropped onto the metro station to get to Jayanagar..
This will need a ban on cars entering this region and even if they have to enter then they have to pay a high cogestion toll!
As for the expense, this is inbetween BRT and the mono-rail and offers facilities which are best of both!
There is also a suggestion that the BRT can be started on particular routes and as it gets popular we can introduce LRT. LRT is kind of inflexible as there are fixed lines, hence deciding which route to introdude LRT becomes critical.
Do you think LRT is an option for Blr?
COMMENTS
Sigh indeed..
lets hope they start towards something meaningful.
Interesing thing that they have done in some of the more crowded European cities: use LRT in the sub-urbs and outside the city center, where there is a little more space for a LRT. This acts as the feeder for the metro systems. Something that Paris is doing effectively - setting up 3 tram lines so far that run almost like a ORR around the city. And plans to add 5 more oover the next 5 years.
May be, this could be something we could look at for the south (EC etc) or North (around Hebbal, devanhalli)
blrsri - 28 April, 2008 - 01:32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PqTQDy8tsw&feature=related
Vehicles use road along with the trains..but again this needs lot of dicipline and thats what we lack most..
MG road is full of commercial establishments and we do not have a louvre or a palace there to stop vehicle movement..so dont think its a good candidate for pedestrianization!
tsubba - 27 April, 2008 - 14:16
blrsri - 29 April, 2008 - 05:51
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080048233&ch=4/29/2008%209:41:00%20AM
After the initail hitches, BRT is picking up..travel times reduced by 1/3rd!
This is a fast turn around for a project getting accepted..its now to change the mentality of the car users and introduction of A/C low floor busses to increase bus usage..also facility like park and ride need to be introduced..
Coming to the compatibility of BRT for bangalore , this is still a question to be answered..BRT needs a fully exclusive path and this is shared from the one of the lanes in the road..as we know Delhi has wide roads but Bangalore does not..
LRT could be an option..this is because:
1. LRT does not need exclusive routes like BRT
2. LRT has more capacity and is not polluting as busses (3-4 busses together)
3. LRT is more affordable than monorail
4. LRT is at grade..which makes it more approachable..this is one of the reasons for the low ridership of monorail projects
Some light on Light Rail (pic too)
srinidhi - 25 January, 2013 - 12:00
C Jayaram, Director (Projects) at the company told Deccan Herald that a draft of the report will be presented to BARL Managing Director Dr Rajkumar Khatri for review before the final version is sent to the government. “There are no major changes, and the route will essentially be the same as announced before,” Jayaram said.
According to the project report, the transit system covers a total distance of 41.3 km in two corridors — from JP Nagar to Hebbal (31.3 km), and from the Toll Gate on Magadi Road to the proposed Peripheral Ring Road (10 km) on Magadi rd
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