Commuter Rail to KIAL

By building halt station below Trumpet flyover of BIAL, it will help ground working people of KIA airport. Now question is who will build this halt station costing Rs 1 to 1.5 Crore ???

.          http://www.vijaykarnatakaepaper.com/Details.aspx?id=17966&boxid=22331328     Now railways are fine with Halt station,  but funding is question ???  This will help thousands of people who are supporting airport operations like Secuirty, Hosuekeeping, Drivers of buses,  catering, cargo handling  employees.

"...Responding to the DRM’s suggestion, Bhaskar B, Senior Director (Finance and Support Services), BIAL, announced that the BIAL would take up the halt station construction. .."

Source - http://www.deccanherald.com/content/442468/bial-swr-announce-train-halt.html

will BIAL Management ready to spend One crore for this ??? other wise this will not come up next 5 years if BIAL start asking who will fund ??? 

 Dedicated coaches designed exclusively for air passengers, hassle-free, traffic-free and super quick transit from Baiyappanahalli station to the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), shuttle bus services right up to the terminal... The existing railway link from the city to Devanahalli/Chikkaballapura could be tweeked with minimal cost to make this proposal a reality in months.

South Western Railway (SWR) officials say the rail traffic on Bengaluru City to Yelahanka line is extremely high, and it does not make sense to run airport trains from Yelahanka to KIA. Urban rail experts have a ready solution for this: Change the route from KIA to Yelahanka to Baiyappanahalli, a station already linked to the Namma Metro network. But this will require the ongoing track doubling work on the 13-km Yelahanka-Channasandra line to be extended by another 3.5 km to Baiyappanahalli.

BIAL had earlier proposed exclusive coaches customised for airport passengers to be run frequently from Bengaluru Cantonment station to KIA. But this proposal, a detailed project report (DPR) for which was submitted to the state Infrastructure Development Department a few months ago, could take years to reach implementation phase.  

Halt delays

Here’s why: Even the halt proposed for existing trains near the KIA trumpet flyover will not happen in a hurry. Top South Western Railway (SWR) officials say the infrastructure for a halt --one minute or two minutes--, should first come up. The stoppage has to be then sanctioned by the Ministry.

“Let the Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) first send us a proposal. If they can fund it as well, things might move faster,” a senior official told Deccan Herald. The cost of a halt station is estimated to be about Rs 60 lakh.

BIAL sources say a feasibility and ridership study had already been conducted on running trains with coaches customised for airport travel from Cantonment to the airport on the Chikkaballapura line. “Since rail traffic on this route is low, more airport-oriented trains could be run. The entire system could be operationaliseed in one or two years,” explained a BIAL official. The report is awaiting the Railway Board’s nod.

To boost seamless connectivity, BIAL had also proposed shuttle buses from an airport station (along the North-western side of the airport enclosure) to the passenger terminals.

“The Metro connectivity will take at least another five years. The rail connection will ensure multi-modal access to KIA till then,” the official said.    .   http://www.deccanherald.com/content/442658/baiyappanahalli-yelahanka-kia-rail-link.html

Following things need to be in place first :

1. Let Halt station come up below trumpet Flyover

2. Extend the  Yesvantpur - Devanhalli to Chikballapur   

3. Run these Three Trains even on Sunday,  presently all these Three trains do not run on Sunday. 

4. Extend the doubling between Channasandra  to Baiyyappanahalli and Channasandra to  KR Puram and Lottegolhalli to Yesvantpur

5. Build halt station at Tannisandra and build 2nd Platform at Channasandra with Foot Over Bridge

6. Complet the Terminal work at Yelahanka

7. Commission the electrification between  Yelahanka to Guntakal

8. Commission the doubling work between Yelahanka - Channasandra and Yelahanka to Lottegolahalli ( before Yesvantpur )

9. Complet all ROB & RUB works taken on Yesvantpur - Yelahanka and Channasandra - Yelahanka

10. Approval required and Install Automatic Signalling in Bangalore City for Railway Track

11. Connect Yesvantpur METRO to Yesvantpur railway station with Foot Over Bridge

12. Intorduce few more services from Kengeri to Devanhalli, Nelamangala - Yesvantpur - Devanhalli,  Whitefield - KR Puram- Yelahanka - Devanahalli

How many times SWR and  BIAL keep talking without any thing happening on the rail connectivity.

Let  BIAL take up halt station building and get few ore services to Devanhalli from Bangalore city / Kengeri / Whitefield during  morning, evening,  night  11PM to morning 5AM

Its easy to put halt station at Trumpet flyover airport workers, This will cost just 40 Lakhs and GOK nor Railways are willing to do this for their own vested interest even after 10 yrs of Airport construction started way back in 2006 and opened in 2008. This is track record of our Garden City Bangalore

One day Airport Halt station also will become like this soon  if this facility is enabled  in next few months soon,