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Written By das - 2 April, 2009

Bangalore Congestion Namma Metro Analysis public transport Metro Rail

Yaara Metro ?

  • The Metro will be ready 3 years from now.
  • It will 5 Lakh passengers, just 4 % of the population of Greater Bangalore in 2012.
  • Traffic congestion will be far worse, because only a very small part of Bangalore is going to use the Metro.
  • Traffic is doubling every 5 years, and in 2012 our traffic population may be close to 50 Lakhs.
  • Commute time will not be reduced for most residents of Bangalore. Commuting will be an even worse nightmare, taking twice as long as it does now.
  • The city’s aesthetics will be largely ruined. Some of the city's best landmarks are going to vanish.
  • Scores of businesses and homes are going to be destroyed.
  • Air pollution will be far worse than it is now - traffic .
  • While the Metro is getting built, some of the key roads are going to be blocked.
  • To expand the Metro to the whole city, there will be continuous construction for the next 50 to 100 years.
  • Many (most?) of us will suffer the construction, but will not be alive to see its final fruit.
  • Is the Metro really going to solve the city's problem ?

For a full analysis, see the document at this link.
http://www.slideshare.net/das_gv/yaara-metro

Yaara Metro
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COMMENTS

Ridiculous report

mcadambi - 2 April, 2009 - 11:19

In the last page, the author Mr Das claims that Metro will be more environmentally and "visually" damaging compared to BRT.

What a ridiculous statement! Metro does not emit an single gram of carbondioxide while it is unreasonable to expect our BMTC to change to hybrid buses!

The only plausible criticism the author levels is the problem of last mile connectivity. This is where BMTC, BMRC will both have to play a role in tandem.

Overall, just a frustrated shopkeeper's rant against the metro! Best left discarded. 

Yaara Metro?

Public Agenda - 2 April, 2009 - 08:36

As I said earlier THE INFRASTRUCTURE ADVOCATES  
will keep themselves seeing the flyovers, double-decker roads and most cars in gridlock on all the roads

We can already see how they have quietened down.

Yaardu infrastrcuture

Nammadu illa 

@Das : And what is the alternative?

s_yajaman - 2 April, 2009 - 09:02

What is your proposal?  We build more roads and get more cars on the roads? 

Or we get people to ride cycles.  All for it, but is it going to happen?

Srivathsa

 

Alternative is Buses

das - 2 April, 2009 - 09:22

Alternative is Buses. See the full analysis in the document (link at the bottom of the post).

Also see this presentation : <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } A.western:link { so-language: zxx } -->

http://www.slideshare.net/das_gv/traffic-solution

Das


Metro to electronic City ON BETL

pradyumnaj - 3 April, 2009 - 10:41

Why do your Town planners not plan for future. Since Bangalore - electronic city Elevated Highway is being Built why not the planner planned for Metro Line in the middle. it would have saved lot of Tax payer’s Money as well time, by end of this year Metro line would have been ready.

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