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Written By silkboard - 28 December, 2008

BIAL Bangalore CRS SWR Devanahalli Citizen Reports Transportation public transport Commuter rail

Building on the good vibes about Commuter Rail Service, hear this out now. Devesh mentioned that at a recent meeting where BCIC was taking up the cause of those who commute to BIAL for work, Mr. Arvind Jadhav indicated that a proposal to introduce train service between the BIAL and Bangalore city (via Yeshwanthapur) is being finalized. The service would be operational once the formalities are completed. Quick details:

 

  • Bangalore City to BIAL, dep 10:30 am, arr 11:30 am
  • Bangalore Cant  to BIAL, dep 2 pm, arr 3 pm
  • BIAL - City, 4:15 pm, arr 5:25 pm
  • BIAL - Cant, 12:30 pm, arr 1:40 pm

(see attached image as well)

Its time for some quality suggestions with regard to the above mentioned train service. I suspect that right now the service could be aimed for use by those who commute to BIAL or Devanahalli area for work - perhaps a "foot in the door" strategy to get this started now, and then think of doing more with time. Good show Mr Jadhav and team, keep going.

[Posting this on Devesh's behalf as he struggled with image upload. This site needs an easier way to share images.]

COMMENTS

Borrowed Ideas and low hanging fruits

Devesh - 31 December, 2008 - 11:26

Syed, you are so right. Very frankly, at the state of affairs right now, the government needs to commence with any fruit, even the low hanging ones :).

SB, will confirm, in the infra committee we are proposing just this approach. Unofrtunately most administrators and politicians are judged by the amount of money spent on a project, not the effectiveness or the currency to needs.

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Yes

sandeepckeerthi - 6 January, 2009 - 23:51

Devesh,
Yes.
 
But, we really should use this as a stepping stone to increase the volumes and convert the CRS into a suburban service. In fact the whole of the railway infrastructure within Bengaluru should be used for a suburbun service. I think this point has been streesed upon by many prajaes earlier too. Hence, creation of the TTMCs at BYP, Devanahalli, Bidadi, etc are steps in the correct direction.

Great work by you and SB with all the BCIC meetings!

should it be around peak hours?

blrsri - 29 December, 2008 - 02:21

Indeed a very interesting move..but who will this link cater to? Passengers - isnt the trumphet exch a lil too far from the apt? BIA employees - shouldnt it be catering to the work hours 9-6? Anyways as you say its the best move fwd for now!

some questions

silkboard - 29 December, 2008 - 03:05

Some questions Devesh:

  • Are we talking a greenfield station near trumpet exch? Not mentioned clearly in the proposal note. Can this greenfield station grow as a real mobility hub (refer Mr Jadhav's thoughts about moving SWR's services out of City station)?
  • Cant - BIAL rakes reach BIAL at 3 pm, and service from BIAL back to Cant starts at 12:30 pm. Is there an error there, or will the rakes stay overnight at BIAL station?

There already is a bus terminal on the other side of trumpet exch. BIAL would probably think of an underground subway going (under NH7) from this new station on the other side to the existing bus terminal.

As Mr Jadhav had mentioned, the location of that bus terminal itself is a problem. a passenger interchange like that can't be so close to a national highway. Refer some past discussion on design of this trumpet transit point:

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It will take too much time to do markings on top of tarle's old picture, so let me describe the problem with the station. Notice where the train tracks are? Right under where the flyover goes above the tracks is where the new station could come up. And the bus terminal could be moved from this side of NH7 to somewhere closer to the new station. If moving the bus terminal, we are looking at some new road work to facilitate U turn from and back towards the City. So there is some cost involved now if we want a public transport hub around a new station. You see what happens when you design things with just vehicles in mind :)

Another picture of the trupmet area if above diagram wasn't clear.

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The best thing would be to think of that greenfield station somehwere further north of this point. I don't have maps handy, nor is google earth updated for this area, so can't think clearly at this time.

Route is not electirifed - DMU may be used

Vasanth - 29 December, 2008 - 09:08

Yelahanka - Chikkaballapur line is not electrified. Currently a Diesel Multiple Unit with 4 cars run between Bangalore - Chikkaballapur. Probably same train will be used here also. Note that this train does not have A/C car. It is second sitting - probably not to the taste of Airbound passengers, but will serve the purpose of beating the traffic.

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