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South Western Railway - please wake up and listen to us!

admin123 - 24-MAR-2008

Thank you Business-standard for striking the right notes (See "Karnataka ignores ..."). So many of us see the potential of SW Railway's assets around our city and wish they woke up and listened to us.
"... experts feel that the Indian Railways’ network in and around the city can be utilised to ferry passengers at a fraction of the cost ..."
 
 
The point in the article that disappoints us most is:
 

Golden Chariot & Garib Rath

Vasanth - 2-FEB-2008

Reach Kacheguda from City in A/C Train at just Rs.475 and in 3 tier sleeper at just 575 - Thanks to GaribRath

Today, Golden Chariot a tourist train and GaribRath, an Airconditioned train to Kacheguda, were flagged off from Yeshwantpur.

Nayandahalli Station Should Be Improved

Vasanth - 31-JAN-2008

Southern most station of Bangalore, Nayandahalli needs to be developed to offload the load on SBC. Currently, the people of southern Bangalore travelling towards Mysore need to go all the way upto City Station paying hefty amount to autos, stand in very long queues (sometimes miss the train because of not getting the ticket in time) and then take up travel. Hence most of the south bangaloreans take up buses from satellite bus stand.

Bangalore-Mysore rail track doubling

GVK - 5-AUG-2007

Would anyone know of the status of this long pending project ? It's re-revised date for completion ? The hassles ? And the way out, if any ?

Mono too much to handle for BMRC

shas3n - 3-AUG-2007

We had recently heard about BMRC trying to finalise the bids for Mono project. But surprisingly BMRC realised that Mono will be too much to handle with its plate already being full with Metro. It has hence submitted a plea to Govt. asking the Mono to be handled by some other agency. Looks like the Gove will oblige.