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Planning traffic during Metro construction on ORR srinidhi - 29-JUN-2016
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FAIL - motorcycles as last mile solution for metro srinidhi - 2-FEB-2016
First of all, the lack of integration of BMRCL with other modes of PT like BMTC is the biggest impediment for metro's usefulness and profitability..however nothing much can be done there now.. |
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srinidhi - 22-OCT-2015
It was in news recently that the road laid by BMRCL around cubbon road after it opened is not of good quality and BBMP was planning to discuss the same with BMRC. This is being done because it is stipulated that relaying roads worked on by metro is to be done by BMRCL itself.. |
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Metro and Interchanges(lack of it!) srinidhi - 7-OCT-2015
BMRCL has already made a mess of commuting in terms of integration with other transport modes especially BMTC. Lately they are also messing up their own interchanges with different phases of metro! About PH II: |
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srinidhi - 2-MAY-2015
Its been the bane of the slum that Bangalore has become that we do not have any credible mass public transport options in the city even after many years and many thousands of crores! Its almost 10 years that the metro dream started in Bangalore and only parts of it is reality today. That reality is also far from ideal! |
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Sanjeev - 23-SEP-2014
L&T's letter to Govt for Project Takeover
This can’t be a routine letter. The 8-page letter is provided below with each page an image. I managed to get from a friend in the media.
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Metro ph 2 and Jayadeva interchange srinidhi - 12-MAY-2014
It was in 2010, in a meeting for tendersure plan review at STUP office that a discussion on marenahalli road came up and the review board member said that STUP had proposed a elevated road and metro line resting on the same pillar was the best sollution on marenahalli road to handle traffic on the busy jayanagar/btm stretch including Jayadeva. |
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srinidhi - 12-FEB-2014
BMRCL is buoyed by the approvals they have received for ph II implementation that they have gove ahead to plan for ph III by initiating the study with RITES. And the other very interesting development that has happened in the last few days is the Mumbai monorail going live..here is a picutre of the train inside: |
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Why are there no Platform Screen Doors or equivalent on Bangalore Metro? mandayamr - 15-NOV-2013
As per wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_screen_doors#India) , Kochi Metro plans to install Platform Screen Doors on all stations. Thoughts/questions: 1. Is the life of a Bangalorean is less valuable? |
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srinidhi - 8-JUN-2013
Hindu today carried a front page news item about the metro allignment on the Byp PH II extension to Whitefield. It was more a report based on renewed outcry from certain sections of public..below is the map of contention from the paper:
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