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Bangalore Airport: The CRS Option tsubba - 28-AUG-2007With the new airport set to open, ideas on how to get there have flown thick and fast. Here are some thoughts on leveraging the existing rail network. |
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tsubba - 28-AUG-2007I am deeply convinced that we could become a regional hub for the southern part of India,” says Mr Albert Brunner, Chief Executive Officer, Bangalore International Airport Ltd, of the new airport in Bangalore that will begin handling flights in March 2008. He feels that Bangalore is at an advantage when compared with Hyderabad, where too a new airport will be inaugurated at least a month before Bangalore’s goes on stream, mainly because of Bangalore’s larger domestic market and its greater commercial importance vis-À-vis Hyderabad. In an interview at the Devanahalli airport, now under construction, Mr Brunner, a civil engineer by profession with a postgraduate training in business administration, discusses the airport’s progress and its prospects. Mr Brunner has been in the airport business for the last 15 years and was a key player in the planning and realisation of Zurich Airport’s fifth expansion programme. Bangalore International Airport Ltd has been formed by Siemens of Germany, Unique Zurich Airport, Larsen & Toubro Ltd, Karnataka Government and the Airports Authority of India. |
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silkboard - 23-AUG-2007
We have all been screaming on the subject for a while now. But this business-standard update on BIAL expressway is interesting, because it talks dates: ... sources said many powerful politicians also owned land along the alignment ... and wanted it changed ... “We changed the alignment five times unofficially before freezing it. But they are still not satisfied. If the land acquisition process is completed by July, the expressway will be ready by March 2009 but that appears improbable. As things stand, the expressway will not be ready even by 2009-end,” a source said. |
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silkboard - 15-AUG-2007
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shas3n - 6-AUG-2007
Everyone, even FM P. Chidambaram seems to know that when the BIAL airport will finally be ready, it wont be accessible easily. There is practicaly no high-capacity road or rail link to connect the city to the airport. Thats the reason he asked the state Govt. to expedite the work on the connectivity and get the roads ready by next 9 months. |
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BIAL Official Updates August 2007 tsubba - 2-AUG-2007
Official Updates of Construction during July 2007 |
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silkboard - 30-JUL-2007
Srivathsa mailed in this report from his drive to Devenahalli yesterday: "Drove yesterday to Devanahalli on some other work. The road after Hebbal flyover is in pretty good shape. There are no real bottlenecks there - but a number of potential accident zones. The real bottlenecks are at Cauvery theatre, then the stretch along UAS or just before that. Very narrow roads with a number of right turns and intersections. Some serious de-bottlenecking needs to be done along this stretch. Once past Hebbal - a grade separator is needed at the entry to yelahanka town. Of course a really bad accident will probably have to happen before something gets done. Then along the way there are a number of intersections where grade separators as well as pedestrian overpasses are needed. They also need to plan some elevated U-turns. |
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silkboard - 26-JUL-2007
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit ... Went to BIAL website just now and ran into that bandwidth error. The interest in BIAL is definitely increasing :) However, leaving this irrelevant internet snafu apart, and talking about choking, I picked this interesting snippet from TOI yesterday. Congress MLAs were at it accusing government of lacking vision on infrastructure front when one of them quoted some interesting statistics about the new airport: |
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BIAL Expressway in legal battle shas3n - 20-JUL-2007
Q: What is the last thing an express highway needs? A: A legal bottelneck. Go ask anyone at NICE and they would swear by it. |
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tsubba - 13-JUL-2007
Key BIAL Concessionaires
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Lots of pictures of work in progress at BIAL, on