Request for integrating YPR-ANEKL Passengers with Namma Metro at Baiyyappanahalli

 apart YPR to other PT. BYPL is closest to high density BMTC route as well.  

By tweaking the route to stop at BYPL and by tweaking the time of these services in the evening a bit, the services on this route can be made convenient for many suburban users. No extra spending but lots of convenience, SWR will not execute this willfully, unless prodded by higher ups. The introduction of passenger trains in recent weeks is an example, they got time and space for the new trains when the claim has been that the station and lines are over saturated long ago!

Ramesh

All the while I was thinking the IR is run by centralized Railway Board, imposing diktats from Delhi. This was the impression I got from the way the new trains/time table changes/extension of trains etc. are declared in railway budgets. Looking at the way the request was forwarded to Operational Manager, SWR Hubli, it gives an indication that operational details are decided at zonal head quarters and Railway Board just consolidates them. Look at the reply from that babu, without touching the actual requirement he has given a generic reply.

At present, stoppage for 11 pairs of Passenger trains and one pair of express trains have been provided at Baiyyappanahalli. It is not feasible to provide stoppage for additional trains at Baiyyappanahal.

As if the capacity of a 4 line 2 Platform station is 12 pairs of trains a day. Just have a look at the KR Puram station few kms away, with similar capacity it has stoppages for many other trains. The funniest part is, he is indirectly asking to use the 2 pairs of other passengers train that runs on YPR-SBC route or get down at YPR and travel in other trains to BYPL. Some times waiting for the next day to catch the connecting train.

If this is the knowledge an Operational Manager has about the running of trains under his fiefdom, it is high time this ineffective monstrous govt. body is cut into pieces and privatized. Let a professional body decides the valuation of current infrastructure owned by IR and decide the share it can have on new entities. Let them pay the usage charges to the new entities for running the trains (if at all interested in it) at the same time open it up for other interested parties. Let it be decided on commercial interests, rather than by the access to Binny Mills land or sharing the infra cost by state governments etc. If airports, aviation, radio, TV, banking, telecom etc. can be opened for private players this is defenitely another area that can live without services provided by the inefficient goverment entity.

There are experiments both in India and outside from where lessons can be learnt. Konkan Railway, Metros in various Indian cities and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail.