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Namma Railu

20 February 2010 - 9:28am — Sanjeev
Project number:3110
Opened by:Sanjeev
Opened on:Saturday, 20 February 2010 - 9:28am
Last modified:Wednesday, 9 July 2014 - 10:53pm
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Advocacy group to campaign for a Commuter Rail System for Bangalore
Initiator: 
Praja RAAG

WELCOME to NAMMA RAILU

Need for Suburban/Commuter Rail for Bengaluru makes to Railway Budget Speech in Parliament

This is how the railway minister, Shri. Sadananda Gowda describes in his maiden railway budget speech, 

Commuter Rail - Will it ever materialize ?

13 February 2010 - 10:42pm — Naveen
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Most of us are aware that the CTTP-2007 report had recommended a Commuter /Sub-urban rail system for the city, totalling 204.0km (this includes city & suburban services upto Tumkur, Hosur & Ramanagaram). A few sub-urban trains are in operation & are being run by Southwestern railways (SWR), but the system is not of much help to urban commuters.

A peep into MRTS at Chennai

11 February 2010 - 5:42pm — Naveen
Commuter RailPublic Transport

These are recent pictures of the MRTS (Commuter /Suburban Rail) at Chennai. New elevated tracks have been added, but these pictures are from an old line on the surface, between Beach & Tambaram.

Modernised Hubli Railway Station & Local Train

5 February 2010 - 6:25pm — Sanjeev
Commuter RailPublic Transport

DRM of Hubli Division of SWR Mr Adesh Sharma informed that new Building of Hubli station will be ready by this year end. It will have 6 platforms with sub way connecting all platforms with Escalators. Bus shelter will be made at the entrance of Sub Way. .Cost of this upgradation is Rs 12 Crore.

Local Train For Twin City Hubli-Dharwad

13 January 2010 - 6:21pm — Sanjeev
Commuter RailPublic Transport

As Hubli & Dharwad twin city is developing with lot  of efforts on the following front:
1. High Court Bench at Dharwad
2. S W R Headquarter
3. Karnataka University at Dharwad
4. K I M S Hubli
5. Agricultural University at Dharwad
7. BVB Engineering College, Hubli
8. SDM Medical / Dental / Engineering college at Dharwad

Transforming Urban Transportation

10 January 2010 - 5:30pm — idontspam
Commuter RailPublic Transport

Sharing a video from India Economic Summit. Very interesting to note Om Prakash Agarwals introductory comments where he says - We are very good at putting standalone facilities but never have an integrated plan and connection with other related systems. Bangalore has been reliant on a one dimensional Bus system. This cannot scale.

CRS / Local train for Bangalore Vs State Govt & SWR attitude

2 January 2010 - 5:32pm — Sanjeev
Commuter RailPublic Transport

This with reference to our Shri K.H. Muniyappa ( Minister of State for Railways  )  blaming State Govt for not starting  Local Trains within Bangalore city.  How is it that he can not speak to CM of Karnataka when CM himself is pursuing so many projects for Rail on cost sharing basis. Our Shri K.H.

Commuter rail for Bengaluru - state not interested?

1 January 2010 - 12:03pm — silkboard
Commuter RailPublic Transport

First up, happy new year 2010 to all. I thought I should pick out one important piece from Sanjayv's summary post on Railway minister's recent announcements for our state.

Updates from the Railway Minister

30 December 2009 - 9:21pm — sanjayv
Commuter RailPublic Transport

There was an article in The Hindu today citing an announcement by Shri K. H. Muniyappa, MoS Railways- see link here.

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