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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
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.
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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sandeepckeerthi - 6 January, 2009 - 23:51
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
Looks like the commuter train is here
silkboard - 3 January, 2010 - 12:57
An year after the proposal was first heard of, we have some announcement on this. The train to Devanahalli has been announced by SWR, this is as per reports in newspapers today (Jan 3 2010) .
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