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Namma Railu Meetup, on the Hosur Train

28 July 2010 - 6:58pm — idontspam
Commuter RailPublic Transport
31 Jul 2010 06:30
Asia/Calcutta

Agenda: Update on commuter rail event and preparations. Preview of Report we have prepared.

Venue: YH1 Commuter train

Date: Saturday, 31 July

Atal Sarige buses

27 July 2010 - 11:05pm — ss87
BusPublic Transport

Last week  I waited at Kanakapura road for a bus to Banashankari. There came a AS1(Atal sarige 1) and I boarded it. This bus had some advantages:

1. The fare charged between Jaraganahalli and Banashankari, a distance of about 2 1/2 kms was just Rs.2/- in a situation where all other buses charge Rs.4/-

BMTC to add 4000 more new buses after Bus Day success

27 July 2010 - 1:09pm — Sanjeev
BusPublic Transport

The transport department was planning to strengthen its existing fleet of 6,000 buses to cater to the increasing demand for public transport in the wake of initiatives like the Bus Day, transport minister R Ashoka said on Monday.

New BMTC Volvo route

26 July 2010 - 11:23am — Sunil Kumar
BusPublic Transport

Hi,

 

BMTC today has launced a new Volvo route from JP Nagar - Brigade Millienum to ITPL. The service No. is 500BM. The route is

Puttenhalli , Oxford Dental colleage, 9th Cross, 9Block Jayanagar, BTM Layout, Silkboard, Intel, Marathalli, Brookefield, Sai Baba Hospital.

I have notices 2 services this morning.

Commuter Rail / Local Trains way to go after Auto fares go up

21 July 2010 - 6:11pm — Sanjeev
Commuter RailPublic Transport

City auto fares likely to go up from Friday

Commuters, brace yourselves to shell out more for your auto trips from Friday.He told Deccan Herald  that a report prepared by the deputy commissioner of police (east) on the quantum of hike to be revised has been submitted to the government.

BMTC - 500k - 600k causing passenger inconvenience

21 July 2010 - 11:36am — muthusubs
BusPublic Transport

500k and 600k are the only 2 volvo routes between Silk Board to Vijaynagar and there is a lot of passenger density in this route. As per the BMTC route info, there is a bus every 5 mins in the peak hour between 530 and 730.

Kudachi-Bagalkot Railway project

20 July 2010 - 12:20pm — santoshfs
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Kudachi-Bagalkot Railway project gets nod

BANGALORE: The South Western Railways (SWR) has completed the survey of the recently sanctioned Kudachi-Bagalkot line in a record time and the Railway Board too has approved the survey and entered it in the pink book.

BMTC - Extending the monopoly

18 July 2010 - 10:06am — idontspam
BusPublic Transport

Quoting myself from an earlier post "I predict the irrelevance of the auto in the transport scheme within the next 5 years." 

Nanos may push autos out of B’lore

Looks like we dont have to wait 5 years for my prediction

SPV Case Study - Konkan Railway !

17 July 2010 - 9:13pm — kbsyed61
Commuter RailPublic Transport

These days I am in search of information on working of Special Purpose Vehicle. In this pursuit I have come across many pieces of info available on Internet.

Commuter Rail meeting with CiSTUP, went well, summary

16 July 2010 - 1:23am — silkboard
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Sanjeev, IDS, PS Anantharam sir and myself went over to IISc today to meet head of CiSTUP. Short summary on how it went

  • CiSTUP to add their review comments / foreword to the report
  • We will jointly organize a roundtable/seminar at IISc/CiSTUP to formally release the report and discuss the subject with relevant government officers and leaders
  • Will invite all transportation and investment related departments of Karnataka, railways as well, and also, local MLAs and MPs who have shown interest or tend to attend these.

We are thinking end of August for this Commuter Rail / Namma Railu seminar. Keep watching for mroe updates, or join in if you want to help organize this.

A hard copy of the report is available now, contact IDS or anyone from the Namma Railu project team if you want to see it. Wll upload the soft copy here as well as part of work for this seminar at CiSTUP.

Lets go Namma Railu :)

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