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Written By Sanjeev - 23 May, 2012
Bangalore CRS Rites Commuter rail
Commuter Rail / Local Trains will benefit the following areas and segment of Citizens:
- Professionals working in major IT hubs like ITPL, Sarjapur Road, Marathalli, and Hebbal
- People working in Auto hubs Bidadi & Hosur, Textile hubs Dodballapur, Agri hub Malur, and Industries around Anekal, Yelahanka, Dabaspet & Tumkur
- Workforce at BIAL, upcoming IT hubs, Health city, Financial District, Aero City, and International Conventional centre near Devnahalli Airport
- Students of major educational institutions like two Universities, several Engineering / Medical / MBA colleges & other institutions
- Big Hospitals, Parks / amusement centres, Shopping Malls located near to the Railway Tracks
- Major upcoming residential areas like Yelahanka, Suryanagar, KHB, Bidadi, Arkavathi Layout, Kengeri, Nelamangala, Chandapur & Hosur
- Commuter Rail will be integrated with Bangalore METRO at Byappanahalli, Yesvantpur, Nayandhalli
- People travelling by Intercity Trains can use Commuter Rail at Yelahanaka, Yesvantpur, Hosur, KR Puram, Kengeri, Tumkur to reach their nearest places of residence
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More and more people should demand the Commuter rail for Bangalore, with RITES in the process of completing the report, things should move to next step.
Recently went by Yesvantpur - Hosur after-noon train to do shopping at Dechathlon sports outlet on Sarjapur road, near Karmelaram station. DEMU rake was really good looking and its more comfortable for journey. Shop was 500 mts from station. After doing shoping for 2 hrs, took same train back to Yesvantpur. In overall, 4 hrs, did journey, completed sports shopping and with comfort journey by train.
On return journey, Train was full & some village womens were sitting on the floor next to door enjoying evening breeze. Maximum passengers got down at Banswadi, Hebbal & Lottegolahalli, very few passengers went to Yesvantpur in the return journey.
This shows how Origin / Destination ( O & D ) studies with good maths model can fail if we are not checking the ground reality of passengers travell patterns.
COMMENTS
With Increase in Petrol Prices, What about Public Transport ???
Sanjeev - 24 May, 2012 - 05:31
With cost of Travell by individual vechiles going up, if we do't have good & effective public transport , cost will keep going up.
With so many modes of Public Transport in Bangalore planned on paper, poor on integration between them like BMTC, TTMC, METRO, Commuter Rail, Mono Rail, Taxi's, Auto's, tarvelling in Bangalore will be expensive & will take more time to travell small distance.
Worst affected are the daily wage workers, low end salary earners, students if we do not get the good public transport like Commuter rail integrated with METRO, BMTC
Gathering in support of commuter Rail
ravichandar - 24 May, 2012 - 04:57
Can we meet to organise a sufficiently big gathering in support of commuter rail
kbsyed61 - 24 May, 2012 - 15:41
Folks,
Sanjeev has arranged for a meeting with Mr Nidhin of ITHR and Vinay Srinivas from Hasiru Usiru to take this forward.
When: May 26th - 3 PM
Meeting was good with moe support coming in
Sanjeev - 28 May, 2012 - 12:42
We had good meeting on Saturday with ITHR & Hasiru Usiru members with 9 people coming together on the issue.
We dicussed on how to take forward the Commuter Rail project which is beeing neglected by GoK & Elected representatives who are busy in chopping of Trees, scratching others back, busy in musical chair game.
Thanks to Gurumurthy, Anitha, Sridhar, Nidhin, Kamalakar, Hemanth, Ravichander, Sathya making for the meet. Vinay Srinivas was to attend other meeting, so he could 't make it.
Looking for more support for Commuter Rail. Already Tumkur MP G S Basavaraj is fully supporting and doing follow up with GoK & Indian Railways.
Following railway infrastructure projects getting push arround Bangalore city :
1. Chikabanavar - Nelamangala new Railway line of 14 Kms cleared by Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety on 1st May'2012
2. Already doubling of Yesvantpur - Yelahanka & Yelahanka - Channasandra is in full swing.
3. Bayyiappanahalli is getting upgraded to thrid terminal in Bangalore with Rs 15 Crore project.
4. Yelahanka Dodballapur railway line is getting Electrified as part of Yelahanka - Guntakal line.
5. Chikballapur - Kolar Railway line will be opened soon in next 6 months for passenger traffic.
6. METRO station at Bayyiappanahlli, Yesvantpur & Nayndahalli stations will need effective commuter rail.
7. 25 to 30 RUB / ROB's are already sanctioned in and arround BBMP area where BBMP is contributing 50% of the project cost so that railway gates are completley eleiminated in BBMP area's
Above factors in every aspect help the Commuter Rail implementation.
Lets see how the authorities show the urgency to implement the Commuter Rail with above developments.
kamalakar pandit - 2 June, 2012 - 07:16
I am really optimistic this time..CRS will start..eagerly waiting for the RITES report to DULT..to see whats in store...I am sure sanjeev,sathya,syed and hemanth all are waiting for the same !! have a great week end.
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