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idontspam - 9-MAY-2010
Hebbal SWR station located in ward 20 adjacent to the ring road services wards 19, 20, 21 on the inside & ward 8 on the outside. The demographics of these wards lend itself to heavy public transport usage. Let us look at this station from a CRS standpoint The station itself is bare and clean. The reservation counters are empty but the station manager is helpful in printing tickets to those who ask. It has 2 platforms with tracks in the middle. Only the platform closest to the entrance is used by the YH1 CRS train. This is possibly to prevent crossing over from the other platform as you will have to walk on the tracks to cross over. Hebbal station looking towards Yeshwantpur
The entrance to the station is on the Ring road side. Ring road west (towards Yeshwantpur) from station entrance |
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idontspam - 5-MAY-2010
We take the CRS this Saturday from Yeswantpur & Ride it all the way to Hosur & back. Will update the event with the train timings tonight. RSVP so we have a count. |
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Local Trains vs Circular Rail For Bangalore Sanjeev - 8-APR-2010
Analysis of last three months discussion and media briefing by Shri MoS K H Muniyappa and CM Yeddiyurappa shows that MoS is favouring Circular Rail and CM is talking of Local Trains similar to Mumbai. Now we will see one more round of study by SWR / Railways for Circular Railway and wasting time on this. RITES study on Local Trains is not considered by MoS K H Muniyappa and no one is talking of this. Do any one have the details on Circular Rail what MoS K H Muniyappa is talking. We from Praja need to do some serious work so that both proposal Local Trains and Circular Train services are sanctioned for Bangalore.
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BMLTA sub committee 6th meeting on 14th Dec'2009 Sanjeev - 17-MAR-2010
BMLTA Sub Committtee minutes of meeting held on 14th Dec'2009, Principal Secretary, Infrastructure Development Department. Here things are clear on starting of services between Yesvanthpur to Anekal and DRM of SWR has agreed finally to start the services between Yesvanthpur to Anekal once they get the Amount for two Rakes. |
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Commuter Rail - attention local news journalists silkboard - 6-MAR-2010
Now that we have a window opening for Commuter Rail Services, we need to spread solid awareness about the possibilities and issues. Towards that, members of this Praja project are making an appeal to media personnel. Please carry informative and detailed reports on possiblities, plans and success factors for commuter rail services for Bengaluru. We are promising all help - we will spend time with you to write them, or if you are okay, even write the details for you. Please contact any one of (vinod_shankar, Sanjeev, Raghu Nandana M, Naveen, silkboard) us, and we will sit with you to write the detailed and informative stories. Our support will be on first come first served basis, and we look forward to support from one or more wide circulation newspapers of Karnataka. Support this project, and help Bengaluru take a big step towards solving its huge problem of transportation and internal connectivity. |
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Commuter / Local Trains for Bangalore from March Sanjeev - 1-MAR-2010
Finally KH Muniyappa, union minister of state for railways, announced that the South Western Railway’s train services from the city to Devanahalli will commence in March 2010 as per schedule. He said on Saturday that train services to Anekal would also start |
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Deregulated State Railway Authority idontspam - 23-FEB-2010
KRC is the model to go if we need to resolve the local problems. If Delhi continue plan and execute we will definitely continue to have hundreds of KR Puram/Whitefield like engineering disasters called flyovers. |
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Commuter Rail - Will it ever materialize ? Naveen - 13-FEB-2010
Most of us are aware that the CTTP-2007 report had recommended a Commuter /Sub-urban rail system for the city, totalling 204.0km (this includes city & suburban services upto Tumkur, Hosur & Ramanagaram). A few sub-urban trains are in operation & are being run by Southwestern railways (SWR), but the system is not of much help to urban commuters. |
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Naveen - 11-FEB-2010
These are recent pictures of the MRTS (Commuter /Suburban Rail) at Chennai. New elevated tracks have been added, but these pictures are from an old line on the surface, between Beach & Tambaram. |
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Local Train For Twin City Hubli-Dharwad Sanjeev - 13-JAN-2010
As Hubli & Dharwad twin city is developing with lot of efforts on the following front: |
