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Written By idontspam - 31 July, 2010
Bangalore CRS Transportation public transport Indian Railways Commuter rail doubling electrification
The below figures should speak for itself. Except for the line from Mysore towards Chennai via city & Tumkur, all other lines around Bangalore are single track. I cant think of any other major city (even tier 2 towns) which is in such a pathetic situation?
Consequently the throughput at the City & Yeswantpur stations is the lowest in its category (Platform throughput is the number of trains handled per platform).
Why do we put up with this? While on one hand we claim Bangalore to be a contender among worlds best cities? I think our MP's in parliament should have some self respect and take this up with Ministry of Railways & Board of Indian Railways.
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idontspam - 31 July, 2010 - 14:50
India to set up $10-bn infrastructure debt fund
The proposal is to initially have a $10 billion infrastructure debt fund. Though it may not solve the financing problem, it is going to demonstrate that such funds can work in India so that many more such funds can be set up for many infrastructure projects
Lets go get this money and get some work done. There is some serious lobbying required at the center. I think we have moped around long enough. Time for the MP's and ministers with contacts to step up & deliver. Heck we even have an MoS from our state.
...the government and the private sector had to do much more in the next five years than they have done in the last five years in terms of scale.
SB_YPR - 31 July, 2010 - 15:57
The second and third projects in the list above (Yeswantpur-Yelahanka and Yelahanka-Channasandra doubling) were sanctioned in the Railway Budget two years ago. I read somewhere that 8 cr of the total 125 cr rupees has been allocated this year. Any word on the progress of these two? Surprising to note that as of Dec 2009, the railways had still not requested GoK for land. Unless they have enough already. Any idea?
Naveen - 31 July, 2010 - 16:17
IDS - Presume you are quoting extracts of the table from the Karnataka R'ly plan (Pgs.47-48).
See Table-26 on Pg.61 -- the distance between Yeswanthpura & Baiayyappanahalli has been quoted as 20km (not 18km) & is single broad gauge.
Strange as it is, there isn't any mention of doubling these tracks anywhere in the plan nor in other railway budget materials, nor map/s or any other reports.
This track is being ignored & left single & it is perhaps up to the state govt to push for doubling this urban track, important for running commuter trains.
I read somewhere that 8 cr of the total 125 cr rupees has been allocated this year
Morsels like this is useless. It time for all of it to be put in. Approx 300 crores for the above list + double track to Chickballapur, Doddballapur & Hosur.
This track is being ignored & left single & it is perhaps up to the state govt to push for doubling this urban track, important for running commuter trains.
That is the reason for this data and the consequent call to action
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