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Proceedings of DULT meeting on 2012 RITES Report on Bengaluru CRS !

12 July 2012 - 7:46pm — kbsyed61

Department of Urban Land Transportation (DULT) in GOK had called a meeting with all the stake holders of 'Commuter Rail' to discuss the 2012 RITES report on Implementing Commuter Rail Service in Bangalore.

Construction of new railway under pass begins on whitefield road

12 July 2012 - 2:29pm — madhu sudhan

Good News!!! The Foundation Stone laying function of the railway underpass on whitefield road (near hondacity showroom) was held on 12-7-2012. Shri. Nandish Reddy, MLA, K.R.Puram performed the pooja for the underpass.

Jeevan Bima Nagar Traffic Police - Monthly meet

12 July 2012 - 10:31am — psaram42

Start: 21 Jul 2012 11:30

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

This is a regular monthly meeting held at the Jeevan Bimanagar Traffic Police on every 3rd Saturday at 11:30 AM.

It seems about 20 to 30 local residents do attend these meetings.

RITES - CRS Cheapest Alternative!

12 July 2012 - 8:01am — kbsyed61

Cheapest Alternative

Sec 3.2 - Potential in terms of Capacity

Maximum Peak throughput:

Rail - 60000 Passengers/Hr

Metro - 40000 passenger/Hr

BRT - 500 Passengers/Hr

Sec 3.4 - Potential in terms of Cheapest Alternative

RITES - CRS implementation in 3 Phases

12 July 2012 - 7:56am — kbsyed61

Three Phases

RITES report has divided all the works that are needed for CRS into 3 Phases. The Phases are 1A, 1B and 2. Each of these have been identified with slew of works to be carried over, cost of works and the time frame to complete the works.

RITES - Capacity Enhancement Strategies

12 July 2012 - 7:51am — kbsyed61

Section 5 - Capacity Enhancement Strategies

Bangalore - SBC Terminal

Shifting 4 Pit lines to Binny Mills land
No terminal or shunting operations
Universal dispatch/receiving facilities
Platforms to be full length
Trains to go in all directions (YPR to MYS and BYPL, MYS to YPR, BYPL, BYPL to MYS, YP

Volvos breaking down?

10 July 2012 - 10:39pm — GNT

I travel from Marathalli to ECity every day and am seeing too many Volvo break downs. I see at least one every alternate day these days.. How do we get stats on this and who do we contact?

Now, experiment with electric bike

10 July 2012 - 12:55pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

(On lighter note) It seems most of my time is spent in experimenting than being consistent in anything !

Public discussion on a Commuter Rail Network for Bangalore

10 July 2012 - 11:53am — murali772

Start: 15 Jul 2012 10:30

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Hasiru Usiru, along with PRAJA, ITEC (IT Employees Centre) and Concern (IISc), is organizing a public discussion on a Commuter Rail Network for Bangalore (Namma Railu) on 15th July, Sunday, 10.30 AM at SCM Hall, Mission Road.

No receipts for parking on sundays in jayanagar TTMC - Is it some rule or parking mafia?

9 July 2012 - 10:22am — dvsquare

Yesterday evening, I was in jayanagar, and I chose to pay-n-park in ttmc jayanagar instead of looking for free parking in the residential roads.
When I parked, nobody gave me any receipt, and I also forgot to ask that time.