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BIAL Connectivity Updates December 2007 tsubba - 16-DEC-2007
Updates on the proposed high speed rail, the proposed expressway and
improvements to existing NH7 to BIAL. |
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thebangalorean - 12-DEC-2007I wonder if anyone has seen photos of the Hyderabad International Airport. http://www.hyderabad.aero/information/live_footage.html Its design looks a generation ahead of BIAL which seems drab in comparison. Even from a practicality standpoint, the lack of multi-level arrival and departure concourses at BIAL itself is likely to result in tremendous chaos. |
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BIAL Official Updates November 2007 tsubba - 6-DEC-2007[flickr-photo:id=2091564768,size=m][flickr-photo:id=2090782157,size=m]
BIAL began construction of the new Bangalore International Airport on 2 July 2005. The construction is progressing on schedule and BIAL will open the airport for commercial operation in April 2008. |
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BIAL connectivity updates Novenmber 2007 silkboard - 29-NOV-2007
Newspapers have been reporting a lot of action on BIAL connectivity front. Some tidbits: “The design of the trumpet interchange has been finalised in coordination with the NHAI to accommodate the expansion to eight lanes. The interchange work will not be delayed. Most of it will be ready for the airport opening date of March 30 and completed by July 2008,’’ said Albert Brunner, CEO, Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL). The infrastructure task force (basically a body of concerned industrailists of the city) is supposed to have met today (Thursday), we should have more updates in newspapers tomorrow. But it seems: In the long term, the task force is thinking of an express train service, a Peripheral Ring Road and an Express Highway Ring Road, sources said. Last week, Livemint reported that:
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Airlines, staff want existing airports to stay silkboard - 20-NOV-2007
As per this story in Business-Standard: "... lobbying to prevent closure of the existing facilities — at the Airport Authority of India’s Begumpet airport in Hyderabad and HAL airport in Bangalore — has got louder" |
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admin123 - 14-NOV-2007
Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Plan for Bangalore TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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BIAL connectivity - ORR as tolled or access controlled road? silkboard - 8-NOV-2007
If you look at it, the delayed and much hyped BIAL expressway would anyway not solve the connectivity issue. The problem would be in getting to the point in ORR from where BEL Road/NH7 or this expressway would emerge. What you need is quick way for folks to get out from the center or east/south/western corners of the city.
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BIAL Official Updates October 2007 vlnarayan - 7-NOV-2007Construction progress update for October 2007 The highlight this month included the commissioning of passenger boarding bridges, transformers, CCTV cameras, fire alarm system in the terminal building. Elevators were commissioned at both, the terminal building as well as the Air Traffic Control building. Airfield lights commissioning continued at the airside. The Terminal building |
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Airport for sale at Puttaparthi - interesting? silkboard - 4-NOV-2007
In case you guys missed reading this story (Business-Standard 31st Oct), Sai Baba's airport which is only 70 km from Devanahalli is up for sale. What if a big name corporation buys and develops this airport and the sorrounding region? Bad news for BIAL? |
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arunvishvin - 31-OCT-2007
You can reach any part of India from Bangalore by air in less than three hours. But you’ll need four hours to go to the Devanahalli international airport from Electronic City by road. With 150 days for the opening of the airport, only one national highway takes you there. |