Metro to ITPL

Sorry to say that Residents of Whitefield / Mahadevapura including their Ward Corporator or MLA or Area MP does not think beyound  attending some public functions.

Worst is the companies located their,  they think,  solutions will come like plug and play type due to  their conditioning in working.

1. Best thing isto get the Suburban Rail / Commuter  to Whitefield  from Kengeri, Yesvantur, Yelahanka with 2/3 services in the morning and same way in the evening.

2. SWR to improve Hoody Halt station with elevated Platform and FOB with proper access.

3. BMTC to do the shuttel services from the Whitefiled station to ITPL,  SAP Labs,  Hospital like Sathya Sai Baba and Vaidehi Hospital and towards Kolar.

4. BMTC to reduce the bus fares arround these Whitefield area, even it eats their profit portion.

5. Request all IT companies their employees to avoid bringing Cars to this area of Whitefield

6. Bangalore Traffic Police to identify the public parking places in vacant sites arround Whitefield roads to avoid parking on the streets.

7. BMRC to plan construction of METRO Ph-2 from Baiyyappanahalli side with full force  and keep target of opening every station in every 6 months instead of opening in one go which was done by Delhi METRO in all places.

8. Provide some temporary stoages for few Intercity trains at Whitefield stations, this may bring SWR capacity but needed.

9. Complet all Rail level crossings around KR Puram - Whitefield on priority where BBMP need to depoist their portion and land without further delay.

10.  BBMP, BDA  & SWR Railways should not take up any new flyover or  underpasses arround Whitefield  once METRO work starts.

Suburban rail is a must for all metropolises & Bangalore is already a megapolis with nearly 1 cr population now & still has no suburban rail system. The govt agencies BMRC & BBMP are simultaneously planning metro construction that will restrict access via KRPuram & build flyovers along old airport road restricting access via Marathalli - what a joke!

Lets see what they finally do. BMRC has stated that road widening will be done first & then median barricades put up for construction, but one wonders if land acquisition has been completed for demolitions & road widening.

The RV rd - Silkboard stretch is to have a metro-cum-elevated road viaduct & this is actually going to be worse than whitefield. I think they should first complete the SB-Bommasandra metro stretch, start running trains on them & then do the RV rd - Silkboard stretch, running feeder buses between RV road & SB via Banashankari - JP Nagar ring road & Madiwala kere road. Though this may delay completion of ph-2, it will prevent lot of public inconveneience.

1. The pillars are too high which increases the cost. especially evident at CMH road, near Yelahanka railway station, Peenya Industrial, Mysore road etc. Multilevel station design also is responsible for this. The location of station on a slope is another reaso,n without leveling of land.
2. Need to avoid crossing over of two flyovers over each other as seen in Mysore road, it is quite possible to go round and avoid increase in height of pillars. If this is made by a single agency, donot touch like approach cn be overcome.
3. The metro rake is not flexible it is not possible to have 6 coaches in peak hours and 3 coaches in nonpeak hours. It is not possible to reduce the frequency because passengers will have to wait too long. Dont know if it is possible to avoid this. When the whole network is done, it may not be problem.
4. The construction of undergound is too slow.The underground can also be done few meters underground rather tan very deep with TBM. Could be done if there are alternative roads, but basically there are not enough parallel roads in the city.
5. Avoid getting TBM stuck!