CRS - Minutes of Nov 17th Meeting (Shared by PS, IDD) !

I like the intention that BDA should be involved in the Yeswantpur Hosur line for TOD as it passes right thru the Eastern ORR IT corridor, however I doubt the capability of the current crop of people on all sides of the babudom to be able to do anything about it. Let us see how much BDA is interested in doing anything other than layout formation. 

The state government’s offer to provide 3.16 acres of land to the railways in exchange for railway land acquired for the proposed eight-lane corridor at Okalipuram will help the railways develop infrastructure and introduce more trains from Bangalore City Railway Station.

The railways can use the land to convert the present half shunting neck, used for attaching or detaching bogies to the engines, into a full shunting neck which enables them to change one full train consisting of 20 or 24 bogies at one go. At present the railways have to form a train by detaching and attaching bogies twice, often delaying trains. Moreover, this gives railways space to park trains and convert one of the existing stabling lines next to Platform No 10 into a platform. This would help railways introduce eight additional pairs of trains from the crowded station.

At present, there are 10 platforms at the station which handles around 150 trains, including 56 pairs of trains. Despite a demand for starting more trains from the station, the railways have not been able to do so and have been introducing new trains from Yeshwantpur.

Senior divisional commercial manager N Ramesh said, “The state government has to hasten the acquisition process and hand over the Binny Mill land to help us develop the much needed infrastructure and enhance efficiency. We have given them the clearance to acquire our land. We cannot say anything about converting the stabling line into a platform as the railway board has to approve the construction of new platforms.”

http://newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/article1388425.ece

Foundation laid for 8-lane corridor at Okalipuram

Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the eight-lane signal-free corridor at Okalipuram, paving the way for an ambitious project aimed at easing traffic at the highly congested junction

The project, with an estimated cost of Rs 183.77 crore, will have road underbridges, loops and an underpass. The construction work will be carried out at an estimated cost of Rs 115 crore while Rs 58.8 crore will be spent on land acquisition.

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, which is executing the work, has already acquired about three acres from Binny Mill and given in exchange for the South Western Railways land.

Addressing people after laying the foundation stone, Shettar said the project would be a model for coordination between the various State and Central government departments such as Railways, BSNL, Bescom and the BWSSB, to materialise the project that will ease traffic at one of the worst bottleneck junctions in the City

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/299894/foundation-laid-8-lane-corridor.html

BBMP is spending so much money on this,  also acquiring the land from Binny Mill,  also they are investing in ROB / RUB's for Railways in Bangalore to the range of 100 Crore from BBMP, 

IDD is invetsing in Hassan - Nelamangala Line & Bangalore - Mysore doubling & Electrification,

Railway is investing in doubling of Yelahanka - Yesvantpur,  Yelahanka - Channasandra,  Electrification between Yelahanka - Dodballapur part of Guntakal line and  Station improvements by SWR arround Bangalore.

With so much inevstment going  related to Railway projects arround Bangalore,  why is it that CM of Karnataka & MP''s from Bangalore keeping quite on the COmmuter Rail project and contributing in further delay by GOK

Bangalore south MP writes letter  to CM o clear the Projec and send  the approval o GOI.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/118590782/Bangalore-South-MP-letter-to-CM-on-Commuter-Rail-Bangalore

Other Bangalore MP's Central  and Bangalore North  should wrie letter to CM