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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... |
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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... |
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srinidhi - 23-JAN-2019
Now that there are land acquistion and the tendering issues to be resolved to sort the grand silkboard road plan, which BMRCL attempted to implement. Also, the double decker work is still on, starting from the marenahalli end. There is a need a less ambitious practical solution which can be... |
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srinidhi - 25-AUG-2018
It is very understandable that people from our city stand up against every sort of development plans which involves cutting of trees. The city has witnessed ruthless cutting of trees in the recent years. Be it highways redevelopment, metro works etc have all taken a toll on trees.
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Pod Taxi kills a metro route.. srinidhi - 9-JUL-2018
The 'new' budget that the CM presented recently has tried to make way for the weird Pod Taxi project which was proposed by the earlier government.The route picked for the conceptual PRT system is starting from Trinity circle(MG rd) and heading towards HAL aiport road. |
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Metro Ph-1 Integration issues progressing slowly Sanjeev - 6-MAY-2018
4 works connecting to B'lore Metro once completed will bring big relief &will increase metro ridership |
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Multi Modal Integration : Metro, Railways, BMTC & Foot paths Sanjeev - 17-SEP-2017
As we have seen Ph-1 of Metro open to public without any consideration for multimodal integration, other end slowly suburban rail taking traction, People are using over crowded Metro with poor integration to change over from one mode of publci transport system to other. Even we do not have single mobility card for Bangalore urban transport. |
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Double Decker Mayhem on RV rd - EC metro route srinidhi - 12-AUG-2017
Bangalore has borne the brunt of bad engineering when it comes to road works. Thousands of crores are being spent mindlessly on projects with no actual value. The flyovers projects are the worst of the implementations, there are very few bridges which have proved their worth. A recent report on that can be seen here: |
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srinidhi - 16-JUL-2017
FInally BMRCL has published the UG route with station details of the new red line coming up between Gotigere and Nagavara. THe line goes UG at Dairy circle and has 12 stations on that stretch. The details are at the link below which was published recently |
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Metro DPR 2A (SB-KRP) - review srinidhi - 15-NOV-2016
BMRCL has for the first time taken a very positive step by sharing the dpr for the phase 2a which connects Central Silk Board to KR puram (via ORR) on the internet. They have also invited review comments by the general public. We have time till end of this month. |