Tracking BIAL

Commuter rail has wider benefits than just for passengers to the airport. There are industrial areas and schools/colleges along the many routes which will benefit immensely at these cost structures. There is life beyond this airport and I am loathe to talk about connectivity to it ad nauseum. 

HSRL will address the business segment of population with a different quality of travel. DBP, BIA industrial park etc will have other class of workers who can economically commute to their work areas using commuter rail. Again, remember there are already millions of workers in Peenya, Bidadi etc who are waiting for commuter rail with a track already right next door.

Why dont you have both and keep 100% of the people happy? Forget target commuter segment it has completely different catchment with different travel times. They are not even in direct competition. In train travel if you can create a different route and serve a different catchment area you have differentiated yourself already.

Meanwhile how many people have asked why there is no train connectivity to educational institutions and industrial hubs along existing train tracks where millions of people work/study? I would rather commuter rail answer this question first.

--- What I have always believed & said !

Both are necessities for the city, or will become so soon. This narrow vision of looking at commuter rail through the glass prism of the airport in the backdrop is completely misplaced & just something that is confusing & diverting people's attention. Commuter rail has much different scope & target users are much a wider section of people than airport users. Airport passengers need something completely different - fast reach to the city & they will pay up higher for it since it's an occasional cost (not daily commute). In this context, the distance being very large, HSRL will also become a necessity once airport passenger volumes increase.

It's better not to mix up the two & say only commuter rail is fine, throw HSRL out - they are not comparable, period.

Commuter rail has wider benefits than just for passengers to the airport. There are industrial areas and schools/colleges along the many routes which will benefit immensely at these cost structures. There is life beyond this airport and I am loathe to talk about connectivity to it ad nauseum. 

Nevertheless, just to complete the talk, the option to have many trains of all types can be accounted for in the plan.  HSRL will address the business segment of population with a different quality of travel. DBP, BIA industrial park etc will have other class of workers who can economically commute to their work areas using commuter rail. Again, remember there are already millions of workers in Peenya, Bidadi etc who are waiting for commuter rail with a track already right next door. Todays YH2 was full despite being a saturday and the route running mostly along IT areas. It will cost only 200 crores to extend commuter rail line from the nearest point to T2 so I dont think it is an impossible task in the future to do it as long as they remember to set aside land for stations & a double track. 

Somebody put it best. If you are building an HSRL for 40% of the population and refuse Commuter rail for the rest 60% you are only pissing people off. Why dont you have both and keep 100% of the people happy? Forget target commuter segment it has completely different catchment with different travel times. They are not even in direct competition. In train travel if you can create a different route and serve a different catchment area you have differentiated yourself already.

Meanwhile how many people have asked why there is no train connectivity to educational institutions and industrial hubs along existing train tracks where millions of people work/study? I would rather commuter rail answer this question first.

This is good news on the part of BIAL. for expansion of terminal

Its now almost 30 months, still we do not have dedicated Trains for BIAL. Airport construction has started way back  2004, now its almost 6 years, still we  have to depend upon the road transport to reach Aiport.

This shows how Poloticians and Officials of GoK have neglected the passengres.  I feel even after  this expansion, we may not get the Train conenctivity to Airport.

In the name of HSRL,  so called Poloticians and GoK officials have dragging their feet and not  giving importance to Local Train / Commuter Rail connectivity to BIAL .

http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/06224322/LampT-offers-to-sell-Bial-st.html?h=B 

Its cash-back time for investors..make the quick buck and exit!

The Zurich team must have been fed up with the constant haggling by everyone, including the aviation minister Praful Patel..who denied the traditional look for the airport and called it a factory..