Posts : Commuter rail

Commuter Rail meeting with Chief Secretary, GoK

idontspam - 23-SEP-2010

Meeting was called today by Chief Secretary SV Ranganath on request from V Madhu, Principal Secretary to GoK, Infrastructure Development Department to move forward commuter rail for Bangalore.

Namma Railu - Terms of Reference

Naveen - 15-SEP-2010

At the end of the meeting on Namma Railu at IISc on 30-Aug-2010, we had agreed to work on a Terms of Reference (TOR) for raising a demand for DPR (Detailed Project Report) for Namma Railu.

[update] Revised TOR submitted to CiSTUP from Praja

Working group on railways - 11th 5-yr plan (2007–2012)

Naveen - 11-SEP-2010

“Report of the working group on railway programmes for 11th 5-year plan (2007–2012)” has the following salient points with regard to suburban rail. Due to file size, the entire report is not attached to this post.

Yeddyurappa will ride high-speed trains in China

idontspam - 10-SEP-2010

 Your chief minister will soon be zooming away in the high-speed trains of Beijing

NammaRailu 2010 Roundtable - Press Release

idontspam - 8-SEP-2010

Press Release

Monday, Aug 30, 2010: CiSTUP, IISc, and Praja.in organized a round table event, Namma Railu 2010 to discuss Commuter Rail System (CRS) as a mobility solution to enable growth of Bengaluru Metropolitan Region (BMR). The event was chaired by Dr A Ravindra, Advisor to the CM.

Namma Railu Round Table - Minutes of the meeting

Naveen - 30-AUG-2010

Praja thanks all participants for making it to the meeting & sharing their opinions. Special thanks to Prof.Sitharam (Chairman, CiSTUP) & staff of CiSTUP for their hospitality & for graciously hosting the event.

Entry fee for vehicles in HAL airport / BIAL

rangaraj - 5-MAY-2008

Thousand Cities - Growth Center Phenomenon!

kbsyed61 - 23-AUG-2010

 

Namma Railu - Call to action report rightly places the empahsis of developing the towns around Bengaluru as Growth center. The same spirit has been articulated in today's editorial piece of Indian Express.

RTI response from SWR on Commuter Rail

Rithesh - 13-AUG-2010

[Posting this on behalf of Ritesh who filed the RTI]

Attached with this blog is the response from SWR to the RTI queries posed on Commuter Rail for Bengaluru. If you have any further questions based on this response, leave them as comments here so we can include them in the next RTI to SWR.

Namma Railu - call to action report authored by Praja.in members

admin123 - 12-AUG-2010

Friends, here is the Call to Action report on Commuter Rail service for Bengaluru authored by Namma Railu project team members. Report is attached in full, and will be used for discussions at the Namma Railu - Mobilicity event at CiSTUP, IISc (scheduled for Aug 30).