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CRS will be a boon for IT professionals
Written By Sanjeev - 29 January, 2012
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Rithesh Swamy lives near the Yelahanka Railway Station. Yet, his travel to ITPL is cumbersome as there are no connecting trains till ITPL from Yelahanka during peak office hours. The KR Puram, Hebbal and Marathahalli junctions are chock-a-block with vehicles in peak hours. A well-networked commuter rail will provide some respite, say passengers.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/222841/crs-boon-professionals.html
Above section of people speeking about their pain in tarvelling and stilling using the existing services shows how badly the commuter rail is needed for the city and its suburbs and near by towns.
Authorities, MP's , MLA's, Ministers from Center and CM of Karnataka should take the project seriously and bring it to reality.
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Sanjeev - 29 January, 2012 - 11:33
Commuter rail system, proposed in the Railway Budget 2011, may not be a reality soon due to the sluggish moves of the implementing agencies
Commuter Rail System (CRS) should have been implemented in Bangalore before any other mode of mass transport.
While much emphasis is being laid on new age Metro lines and a rather superfluous High Speed Rail Link (HSRL), none of these will help in further development of the City, as it cannot transport labour force or goods from peripheral areas outside Bangalore.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/222843/waiting-train.html
Finally Commuter Rail is taking shape on strong foot. After RiTES report in feb, CM of Karnataka should allocate funds for this project in the state budget and he should leead all 7 MPs from Bangalore to Railway Minister & PM to sanction the project to solve to large extent the traffic problems of Bangalore & its surrounding.
The new layouts could have planned with provision for CRS. Bangalore has been starting many new layouts for a long time, but none I believe had provison for railways. In fact, the new layouts have the least access to railways. This shows Bangalore is not very fond of rail.
SWR will run the shuttel services on Sunday
Sanjeev - 1 February, 2012 - 11:12
Sunday service
The sources also said that there was demand for passenger train service on Sundays, especially to Tumkur, Mysore and from Kolar. At present, passenger train services are not being operated on Sundays.
A proposal has been made to the Railway Ministry to operate all passenger trains between Bangalore and Tumkur, Mysore and Hindupur, and one way from Kolar to Bangalore on Sundays.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2846207.ece
Its good that now SWR authorities are realising that public are using the existing shuttel services between Bangarpet, Tumkur, Mysore to Bangalore which are really helping the commuters on working days, they were not run on sundays.
With demand increasing, and now Nelamangala line also getting opened by March'2012, Commuter Rail should get into the momentum on ground with RITES going to submit the draft report in Feb'2012 and followed by Presentation.
idontspam - 1 February, 2012 - 11:53
Just realized, the 2015 BDA revised master plan also calls for commuter rail as one of the transportation systems in their vision document.
Page 42, Section 5(x), transportation section of the RMP 2015 vision document "Development of the commuter railway systems" says
The CRS project comprises of the commuter railway project providing connectivity on existing surface railway lines in Bangalore with the proposed metro rail project...
Page 22, Section 1, "Growth Scenario" foot note says
The Commuter Railway System (CRS), which consists of utilizing the present railway lines for urban transportation should be developed beyond the present urban area to connect to the new urbanization areas in the distant periphery
What is Muniyapa smoking?
Railways had agreed to run trains to some destinations
Sanjeev - 29 January, 2012 - 02:20
Contrary to rumblings about the Railways not being too keen on the Commuter Rail Service project, railway officials say they had agreed early on running the trains to some destinations, provided the State government was willing to supply the rakes.
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“There is no question that a city like Bangalore does need the commuter rail in addition to other mass rapid transit systems. But the focus of the Railways is on long-distance trains, so it will take the efforts of the State government and keep up the pressure,” Sitharam says.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/222839/railways-had-agreed-run-trains.html
Finally Draft report getting submitted by RiTES, lets see what propsals will the RiTES make it and how GoK and SWR agrees on the modalities.
Now Chief Minister of Karnataka should allocate minimum 100 crore for the Commuter rail project to kick start so that Center Indian Railway also comes forward immediately.
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