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Blr - Chennai new infra. connection srinidhi - 20-JUL-2015
Gadkari is back with his mega projects and this time announcing concrete expressways accross India. One of them is to connect Bangalore to Chennai and bring down the travel distance from the current more than 300 Kms to 262 Kms and make it reachable in 3 hours time..land acqusition has already begun on the 70 Km stretch within Karnataka.. |
Trucks at Whitefield - a solution? srinidhi - 9-FEB-2015
Lot of happenings in Whitefield over the weekend where the local population protested against the the truck traffic which has been a cause of severe concern these days. |
kbsyed61 - 10-JAN-2015
RAIL DAY - Once in Month Observance promoting daily travel by trains
Bengaluru city has reached a point of no return on providing congestion free flow of traffic
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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: |
High Speed Rail to BIAL project scrapped! kbsyed61 - 19-DEC-2012
Source - Deccan Chronicle - The big-ticket high-speed rail link to the Bengaluru International Airport has been given a quiet burial. |
Praja Commuter Rail presentation @ OneBengaluru idontspam - 6-JUL-2012
Sunday 8th July 2012, 3PM @ 1677 17th Main, J.P.Nagar 2nd Phase, Bangalore, |
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 |
idontspam - 7-JUL-2010
Why did I post this under Commuter Rail? Because it ties in very well with what we are trying to say. Commuter rail infrastructure costs afraction of the fortune we spend today as most of it is already available. Incremental investment in mordenization of signaling and operations is all that is required to make it efficient. If one picked the cities identified in this report, connect them to Bangalore and did all that the author is trying to say, we can have a world class ecosystem up and running in no time.5 years tops. Is the govt listening? Are the bearucrats up to it? |
Railway line connecting Shimoga - Harihar and Anekal Road - Bidadi reevs - 22-DEC-2009
Tender for Survey work - Shimoga - Harihar and Anekal Road - Bidadi are floating now. |
Map - Existing Railway lines in Karnataka kbsyed61 - 28-MAR-2009
This is the current position of existing railway lines in Karnataka. |