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Written By idontspam - 9 June, 2011
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Massive step forward yesterday. Bestest meeting ever since we did the report last year so sharing this will all of you who have spent energy & effort in this cause.
Meeting was convened by DULT to discuss the next steps. SWR has agreed to start Commuter rail services on almost all corridors where slots are avilable if GoK can provide a few rakes and a few other things on their shopping list. DULT has asked RITES to do a quick report on the things needed to start the services including sitting with SWR to determine how many rakes, what times slots available, what segments & how many services will run. Apparently new stations cant get done now & we will have to consider it as and when capacity augmentation is taken up.
The detailed DPR wil get pushed back in time to accomodate the execution of this quick win. The detailed DPR will continue to address the long term sustainability & making this a full fledged service with better financial structure more stations, more services etc as originally envisaged. But we are drunk with happiness to think about it now. Too early to celeberate but damned if we all dont have a drink on this, maybe in the train if allowed. Sanjeev has more details as he sat back to complete the MOM with DULT folks.
Special thanks to Prof Sitaram & CiSTUP
COMMENTS
Vasanth - 27 January, 2012 - 00:22
Metro will have lots of stops and the long distance travel to suburbs will be highly time consuming. The cost of construction due to Elevated / Underground corridors are so high, never sustainable as said.
Commuter rail is the right option, we might need little hi-tech commuter rails to make it more attractive with A/C, automatic closing doors etc. Extension of reach 4 from Nayandahalli to Kengeri doesn't make any sense. Commuter rail could have done that job with integration at Nayandahalli.
Case of Whitefield / KR Puram to Bangalore
Sanjeev - 27 January, 2012 - 03:55
METRO Vs Commuter Rail Travell Time between ITPL to City Station :
Public Travelling from Whitefield or KR Puram to Bangalore city station beyound, will have less travell time by SWR Trains as they will have few stops and its almost stright line. People going to MG Road or Indiranagar / KG road from ITPL will have METRO advantge.
As the post suggested, METRO will do good job in Innercircle and Commuter Rail will cater to outer circle in big city. Its true to large extent.
Both modes of Transport brings set of advantages and dis-advantages, how both system compliment each other with BMTC makes the Public Transport efficient. This is where our so called planner in B'lore are missing the link, they always think that each one will compet with other.
kamalakar pandit - 27 January, 2012 - 07:34
commuter rail is the need of the hour. the price of the ticket will be reasonable when compared to Metro. CRS should start as early as possible...politicians should focus on this....and get it done...
Flawed Argument - Commuter Rail Vs Metro
kbsyed61 - 27 January, 2012 - 21:41
It is a flawed argument to take the discourse to Metro Vs Commuter rail. I afraid we are taking the bait of politics and proponents of metro or against it. I would request at least the praja members not to look at the equation in terms of metro vs commuter. If we did, I am afraid it will become "US and THEM". If that happens then we are the biggest losers.
Hum idhar ke rahi no udhar ke / Na Sanam mile Na visale sanam
(We are neither here nor there / Neither we got our beloved nor beloved's affection)
Both Metro and commuter rail has enough space for itself to cater to. Each one actually supplements the other. Has any one looked at how Metro and CRS compliments each other? If metro as spans out as planned, will definitely serve the commuters inside the city criss-crossing from one end to the other. Where as if CRS is properly implemented could bring commuters from outside of B'lore and take them back. Providing a proper integration between these would serve the commuters better as no commuter section is homogenize. Commuters do need a mix of inner city and outer city commute choice. This is what the promise of multi modal mass transit system is.
What Bengaluru and other major cities in India is multiple modes of mass transit, not just one type of mass transit system.
Definitely Bengaluru's need commuter rail, Monorail as much as Metro, BMTC, Paratransit (Autos/Cabs/Taxis) and Non-motorized transport systems.
Let us not pitch commuter rail against Metro or other mass transit systems. At least Namma Railu team from Praja doesn't envision that way. The team places CRS as complimenting choice than competitive choice.
-Syed
metro cannot substitute commuter rail
murali772 - 26 January, 2012 - 11:23
While metro is essential for the city, making the metro lines longer and longer is an unsustainable and inefficient public transport provision. The focus should be on capitalizing on existing commuter rail alignments. London, Chicago, New York all have such arrangements too, for those of you not satisfied without some western parallels.
For the full text of the article, click here
Looks like a fairly valid argument.
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