Written By bangalore-guy - 7 May, 2008

BIAL Bangalore monorail BIAL Connectivity public transport Metro Rail

I have been reading at various forums and news papers and it is now clear that the planning authorities goofed up by not thinking about rail connectivity to the new BIAL. Now various suggestions are being made and one that is louder than the rest is that a dedicated rail link be provided from MG Road to the BIAL. Which in my opinion is utterly stupid and expensive.

I suggest that the Namma Metro (under construction) be extended to the new BIAL rather than starting a new project. My reasoning is as below:

1) New project would mean more paper work, approval process and hence delay.

2) Higher costs.

3) Inconvenience: for anyone travelling by metro to MG Road and then going to the BIAL Rail station to take the train to the BIAL is an inconvenience.

4) Under Use : The dedicated BIAL rail will be underused as it will be used only by the passengers who would want to travel to the BIAL, which would be much lesser than normal commuters.

5) Residents of North Bangalore (read around bellary road) will be deprived of Metro, since you cannot have two parallel rail services to the same routes. And since only people travelling to BIAL would be able to use the dedicated BIAL rail, it will forever deprive the residents around bellary road to get access to the Metro/rail and will have to live without a good public transport system.

There can be many more points against the dedicated rail service, but I think I have been able to make a good number of points to evoke thought.

What I suggest is to extend a phase of Metro to the BIAL so that not only BIAL passengers but also other normal public is able to use the service and we get maximum value for money and do not get entabgled in two different services. Moreover additional services (read more metro trains) can be engaged at peak times to cater to the BIAL passengers if need be.

This will save cost, time and hassle to everyone. I would love to see comments and more suggestions.

Public Coments for AERA proposal for Mumbai Airport Connectivity

Sanjeev - 7 January, 2016 - 11:46

Dr Saurabh Dani from Mumbai

http://aera.gov.in/upload/pb/Dr%20Saurabh%20Dhani%20pb02-15-16.pdf

Sanjeev V Dyamannavar

http://aera.gov.in/upload/pb/Sanjeev%20V%20Dyamannavar%20pb02-15-16.pdf

 

http://aera.gov.in/upload/pb/5667f58775dd4publicnotice21516.pdf

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Since 2008 this post discussing about METRO extension

Sanjeev - 2 August, 2016 - 18:30

Interesting to see How GOK  has ensured all projects of public transport are suffered.

With 9 years,  still we are debating   what will be good for airport as mass transport ???

 

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Sanjeev - 2 August, 2016 - 18:32

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the metro goes to Peenya,

narayan82 - 7 May, 2008 - 10:46

the metro goes to Peenya, Via malleshwaram. Hencing extending it to BIAL will be as costly as building a High speed stand alone railway, as the nearest point it can connect to the Metro is either Yeshwantpur (in which case poeple have to change trains) or M.G road (as it is now). What would make sense is to involve the Mono Rail feeder network, to BIAL. It easier to build, less land, cheaper and will suffice the demand for the next 30 years.It will fit along the median, or atop the service road. The Mono rail should ideally go through yelahanka too, instead of following the bypass.

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In Mumbai, AIrport METRO cost beeing recovered from AIr passeng

Sanjeev - 16 November, 2015 - 11:00

Consultation Paper No. 09/2015-16 Determination of Development Fee in respect of the Metro Connectivity Project for Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai

http://aera.gov.in/upload/cp/5639f4de580f6FinalCPNo9foruploading.pdf

Following need to be deliberated and how Govt can burden only Air Passengers for all reasons and wants Air fares to come down ???

1. For future cost of cosntruction, why present air passenger need to  pay : For future construction of METRO, why present air passenger who is flyoing or landing need to pay. When he is not even using presently.

2. METRO to AIrport is not exclusive for Air PAssenger :

METRO connectivity will improve transport to Airport. This will be used  by different segment of citizens who travell to Airport : Example AIr Passengers, Crews, Ground handling staff, visitors to airport, Air line staff, people who work in business centers, and so on. So the METRO connectivity is not exclusive for the AIr PAssengers.

3. Other Airports,  Air Passengers are not burdened : In case of Hyderabad, Calcutta, Chennai, Airport ,  connectivity by METRO or Rail is taken care by Central and state govt

4. METRO is urban Transport :   As such METRO which is funded by MOUD and state govt., METRO implementation to Airport will reduce traffic congestion on Mumbai Roads, hence city is getting benifited directly. Hence its more logical for MOUD and Maharastra state govt to fund the  METRO connectivity to AIrport  Rs 518 Crore and recover same from   differential ticke pricing for the AIrport METRO station.

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