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Chikkabullapur : Railway minister neglects station in his neighbourhood

1 December 2010 - 12:07pm — Sanjeev

Chikkabullapur has its share of pride for being the neighbouring district of the Union Minister of State for Railways K H Muniyappa’s home constituency, Kolar.

station doesn’t have basic facilities such as drinking water and toilet. Several inter-state trains pass through the station which houses not a single shop to serve coffee or eatables

MMTS Service Improvements and what about Bangalore Commuter Rail

18 November 2010 - 5:46pm — Sanjeev

MMTS services of Hyderabad has doing great improvements, you can see here how the services have been improved over the last few months. For Bangalore & its suburbs Commuter Rail is still distant dream unless we push our Politicians hard either BJP / Congress

Karnataka high-speed rail plan hits legal roadblock

16 November 2010 - 1:49pm — Sanjeev

A high-speed rail link (HSRL) project connecting Bangalore to its new international airport, proposed at a cost of Rs 6,000 crore and intended to reduce commuting time from the present one hour to 20 minutes, has hit speed breakers over the legal framework the project is to be implemented under.

Bangalore City Railway Station expansion

16 November 2010 - 10:23am — Sanjeev

Railways eyes land swap with BBMP

Sources in the Railways told Deccan Herald that if the deal goes through, the service yard/line in the City station, along with the coach yard near platforms 4 and 10 will be shifted making room for more platforms.

Plastic Ban In Bangalore City

9 November 2010 - 2:44pm — Sanjeev

BBMP chief hints at ‘consensual’ plastic ban

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Commissioner has hinted at banning plastic in the capital city

Adarsha Society at Mumbai, Why not Mantri Mall as well?

4 November 2010 - 12:10pm — Sanjeev

Mantri Mall builder violated building by-laws’Mantri Mall builder violated building by-laws’

the builder should have left at least 10 per cent of the total land for gardens as per the terms and conditions. Besides, a 16-metre space should have been left in front of the building as per the sanctioned plan, but it has left merely 8-metres space.

ROB at between Whitefield KR Puram and Byappanhalli approved in BBMP

30 July 2010 - 9:11am — Sanjeev

Palike approves nine projects without debate :

BMTC to add 4000 more new buses after Bus Day success

27 July 2010 - 1:09pm — Sanjeev

The transport department was planning to strengthen its existing fleet of 6,000 buses to cater to the increasing demand for public transport in the wake of initiatives like the Bus Day, transport minister R Ashoka said on Monday.

Commuter Rail / Local Trains way to go after Auto fares go up

21 July 2010 - 6:11pm — Sanjeev

City auto fares likely to go up from Friday

Commuters, brace yourselves to shell out more for your auto trips from Friday.He told Deccan Herald that a report prepared by the deputy commissioner of police (east) on the quantum of hike to be revised has been submitted to the government.

Three new flyovers will decongest Sarjapura Road

12 July 2010 - 12:17pm — Sanjeev

Hope this will bring down some traffic problem on ORR.

Commuting on Sarjapura Road is set to become a smooth affair as three flyovers are ready to be inaugurated on the thoroughfare anytime next week. The first flyover is located at Iblur Junction, while the second flyover is at Agara. The third flyover is an extension of the Agara flyover,

Iblur flyover will be a signal-free stretch and it will make the movement of vehicles to Silk Board Junction on Sarjapur Road faster.

Vehicles can now take the main road instead of taking service roads and cross roads and this will also ease the traffic movement towards Koramangala, Sarjapura Road, Marathahalli and Outer Ring Road.

Bangalore Development Authority officials said that there would be some bus lanes and grade-level roads dedicated to the Iblur flyover as it was a part of three-flyover interlink.

http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_three-new-flyovers-will-decongest-sarjapura-road_1407322

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IGI Airport Vs BIAL

3 July 2010 - 5:01pm — Sanjeev

PM unveils world's 6th largest terminal at IGI Airport

Delhi today got a spanking new world-class Rs 9,000 crore airport that will integrate domestic and international operations and is expected to handle 34 million passengers annually

Double Decker Intercity Train between Bangalore to Mysore

15 June 2010 - 4:55pm — Sanjeev

SWR is planning to introduce the double decker Train between Bangalore to Mysore once the coaches are made available from Rail Coach Factory (RCF) in Kapurthala to increase the passenger capacity.

Air-conditioned double-decker coach are running on trials on the Delhi-Moradabad section a few months ago

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/bengaluru/double-seats-twice-fun-735

This should help passenger travelling between Mysore to Bangalore and catching flight at BIAL, by extending these trains upto BIAL. Trumpet Loop / Terminal of BIAL building.

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New BMTC routes - K1/K2/K3

3 June 2010 - 9:23am — Sanjeev

The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) will be introducing three routes called K1, K2 and K3.

The route K1 will connect St John’s Hospital, Sinivagilu, Domlur, Indiranagar Police Station, Ulsoor, Trinity Circle, Mayo Hall, Shivajinagar and adjoining places.

The K2 route passes through Hebbal, Devasandra, M S Ramaiah Hospital, Yeshwanthpur, ISKCON temple and adjoining roads.

K3 connects Basaveshwara bus stand, Vijayanagar MCTC, Sirsi Circle, Chamarajpet, North Road, Basavanagudi, Shanthi Talkies and adjoining roads.

A release from BMTC said that buses along these routes will be made available at a gap of 15 minutes each between 6 am to 11.15 pm.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/73099/bmtc-routes.html

Here they should have extended K1 upto Cantonment Station. Also integrating with METRO stations should have been taken care as many places, these buses will be playing close the METRO stations enroot.

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Local Trains vs Circular Rail For Bangalore

8 April 2010 - 5:17pm — Sanjeev

Analysis of last three months discussion and media briefing by Shri MoS K H Muniyappa and CM Yeddiyurappa shows that MoS is favouring Circular Rail and CM is talking of Local Trains similar to Mumbai.

Now we will see one more round of study by SWR / Railways for Circular Railway and wasting time on this. RITES study on Local Trains is not considered by MoS K H Muniyappa and no one is talking of this.

Do any one have the details on Circular Rail what MoS K H Muniyappa is talking. We from Praja need to do some serious work so that both proposal Local Trains and Circular Train services are sanctioned for Bangalore.

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New Mini Bus Terminal at Byappanahalli on Old Madras Road.

30 March 2010 - 9:49am — Sanjeev

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has begun inter-State operations at a new mini bus terminal at Baiyappanahalli on Old Madras Road.

According to K A Rajkumar, Director (Operations), the State-run corporation has constructed a small facility near the old NGEFactory, on a trial basis.

“We have commenced bus services from 19 March on a one-way basis (towards Kolar and Tirupati). About 500 odd buses, including Volvo will ply daily through the new terminus from the City towards destinations such as Kolar, Chintamani, Malur, Chittor, Tirupati and Chennai. The new facility also has 12 bus bays” said Rajkumar. KSRTC will shortly finalise introduction of BMTC onnection to this new facility

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/61031/ksrtc-terminal-baiyappanahalli.html

Poor publicity by KSRTC may be due to BBMP election. Now they should give good advertisment about this.

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