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Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 2 September, 2009 | Bangalore | monorail | Media Reports | Transportation | public transport | Metro Rail
Source: Dec.Chronicle todate
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Futuristic Mono Rail on 30 km ORR between JP Nagar & Hebbal Flyover - Project Report in two months - Bangalore Airport Rail Link Authority - Comprehensive Transport and Traffic Plan (CTTP) - Rs.44,000 crore estimate
- expected to run on 12 metre high elevated tracks with advanced features like intehgrated network/telecomn., fare control, fire detection/fighting etc.
GO issued in April 2009 - PPP - Cost per km. Rs.120 crore (app)
- Malaysian firm ScomiGeodesic Consortium to execute
- Phase I - JP Nagar (Bannerghatta Rd - Kanakapura Rd - Banashankari - Katriguppe - Mysore Road - Magadi Road - Yeshwantpur - Hebbal
- Phase II - Mono Rail as feeder line to Metro Rail will be executed in 3 corridors covering 61.5 kms - cantonment in east to Byatarayanapura police station, mysore road and from Agara Lake and Koramangala in the south to yeshwantpur in north.
- expected to cater to vasanthnagar, west of chord road, magadi road, hoskerehalli, bull temple road, hudson circle, residency road, MG road, Shivananda circle, Lalbagh, Millers road, kamaraja road and Koramangala Indoor stadium.
- vasanth mysoremath
COMMENTS
Route map from Scomi/Geodesic DPR
silkboard - 11 September, 2009 - 07:36
So, is the 30 km ORR west loop aligned route an addition to this?
BARL to oversee monorail?
silkboard - 11 September, 2009 - 07:34
Missed reading this important bit. So is BARL the authority for monorail development? Just curious on the connection of "airport rail link" with mono annnouncement.
So looks like the West curve of ORR will get monorail, and the east curve that long-pending BRT.
From what I hear, the project report is anyway ready and sitting with Geodesic-Scomi. the two months perhaps are to fine tune the PPP arrangement?
See this for their monorail proposal:
http://bangalore.praja.in/en/blog/idontspam/2009/02/12/bengaluru-mono-rail
Already posted ...
n - 11 September, 2009 - 14:45
... in this thread and this comment.Some good and time-consuming work by Naveen. Hope he hears back.
SB, no Scomi routes
Srivatsava - 12 September, 2009 - 03:29
Schomi had built an elaborate route map. But the government at no considered them.
You can be sure that this plan has nothing to do with the Scomi routes.
Personally, I always believed that the Schomi routes were good, but lacked connectivity to Metro severely. I only saw them cut across Metro routes, but didnt see any interchanges!! But then, it is a different point...
Not Scomi route?
n - 12 September, 2009 - 04:05
Page 6 of the meeting report (subject 5/7) mentions report by Scomi. Did they change the route? Repeat of information in my previous post.
Mono Rail not advisable
idontspam - 12 September, 2009 - 05:42
(Mr Shreedharan) is not for it because: i) Mono Rail cannot be compared to Metro; ii) Mono rail has one-third capacity of Metro and costs as much and iii) Mono Rail is not for mass movement or cities. It’s good for entertainment areas or pilgrim centres.
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