Posts : Bangalore

Airport Halt station BIAL Devanahalli MoU Signed

Sanjeev - 10-SEP-2020

Thanks to Chief Minister of GoK and  Ministry of state Railways for signing MoU for Airport Halt station

Thanks for full support from Cheif Sec / GoK, DRM Bangalore, MD / MIAL for making this happen

Station has come very well. It has taken nearly 14...

CM's Rajakaluve upgrade plans - ambitious?

srinidhi - 18-AUG-2020

CM Yediyurappa in his Independence day speech introduced a plan to spruce up the Rajakaluves in the city and convert them to public spaces. Sounds grand and ambitious. However as they say the devil is in the details. One of the sources mentioned this to the press:

“At places,...

Metro OR Suburban train to KIA?

srinidhi - 4-FEB-2020

So its that time of the year again, expectations from the budget abt announcements on suburban rail and no doubt madam FM did say few words on the issue but also left a lot for speculation. And then the news items abt the train link to the trumpet interchange near...

Airport Halt Station KIAL Devanhalli

Sanjeev - 25-DEC-2019

Tentative Train Timings at Halt station 

We need few more services from City, Cant or Whitefield or Yesvanthpur to Devanhalli to help Airport Workers to make use of it.  Its arround 1.3 Kms from Airport 1st Circle and 400 Meter from NH-7 but access need to be improved

1.2 Kms...

Opening up of Airport Halt Station at KIAL Devanhalli

Sanjeev - 26-DEC-2019

Start: 31 Jan 2020 19:42

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Finally Airport halt station beeing built by BIAL thanks to MD BIAL & DRM SWR

Now we have 4 services in each direction and  with further addition of few services as per Airport timings & peak fligh timings, it will be good start

 

New Halt stations

Sanjeev - 25-DEC-2019

As we have seen 3 Halt station coming up  during last  5 Years in Bangalore : Hoody by MP PC MOhan, Krishandevaraya Halt station by Ananthkumar,  Airport Halt Station by BIAL Managment

We have seen how these are benifitiing people / commuters

On the same line we should get following...

Update on Koramangala projects

murali772 - 18-NOV-2019

With the Ward Committee's largely dysfunctional (check here), I am appending below my version (gathered from exchanges on various WhatsApp groups, and hearsay - if anyone has more authentic info, they are most welcome to correct me) of an update on various projects in the Koramangala area:

 

1) Ejipura-KendriyaSadan Elevated...

Metro, not NimBus (BPS) , needed for ORR

srinidhi - 2-NOV-2019

The govt along with various organizations like DULT is gearing up for the launch of  NimBus or the Bus Priority System(BPS) planned on the ORR. This, on the outset, seems a sane decision, probably a little late in coming though.. This is because the weird designs of flyovers, with separated...

Bengaluru Suburban Rail Still pending - Open Letter to Bengaluru City MPs!

kbsyed61 - 21-SEP-2019

To: All the MPs from Bengaluru City and surroundings,

Shri @ Prof. Rajeev Gowda, Shri, Sadananda Gowda, Shri. PC Mohan, Shri. Basavaraj and Shri @Tejeswi Surya

 

Trust you are all doing well. I don't think I need to...

Extortion racket by faking accidents

murali772 - 28-AUG-2019

The following was posted by a resident on our apartment complex WhatsApp group:

 

Thought I should share an incident that happened today as I was going to work (around 9 AM, Monday, 26th Aug, '19); and some thoughts. Might help others.

 

I was in my car near the...