CRS is not in the railway budget of 2011-12

 I have seen the sincere effort put here.  I feel sorry for the group. 

Its always a risk to put your advice on cyberspace. You will be most probably be shouted down or ridiculed. But being associated with Railways, I always thought the energy of the group is misdirected. Ok, after stating this honestly, I will come to what the group should do.

There are plenty of recently retired General Managers and Board Members settled at Bangalore. They will be more than happy to lead this campaign. They know how the Railway system work and they have spent their lifetime getting new projects implemented. Approach these gentlemen, give them a 'title of responsibility'. Follow their advice. With their networking and the energy of the younger lot of this group - Goal of CRS will be met.

 With their networking and the energy of the younger lot of this group - Goal of CRS will be met.

I personally believe all of these retired people you have talked about havent done half of what we are trying to get done, that is why this request is languishing for 27 years. I would really like them to take up this challenge now that the visibility has already been created & see if they will do anything like you say they are capable of. I am sure if they they dont take up the challenge your faith in them will need to be revalidated.

We would be happy to meet with anybody who believes in the cause and are willing to take it to logical conclusion. Send me your number as a private message & i will call you to discuss. 

I have sent you my number, would like to speak on this for the next steps.

Can we all, the group members, meet to discuss the next course of action to see Bengaluru's commuter rail through. Mr.Sanjeev  can  you please coordinate this.

Will revert with meeting dates soon.

How about a Saturday morning ride and meet once again in the YH local (like that very first meeting we had). If we all get on at or before Karmelaram station, then we should get good 45 minutes together in the empty train.
 

Meeting on any Saturday is fine. Let us come out with a date in advance, so that everyone of us plan and make it up

I think funds reduced mostly because gauge conversions getting over in state. Trial runs have started on Talaguppa-Anandapur line according to sources. Also the expressbuzz article states "Kolkata Metro has got more funds in the last year than the entire SWR", metro is badly needed for that sleeping city. If you deduct kolkata metro it is only 228 crores allotted for West Bengal which is less than what SWR got.

But new lines in Karnataka like Gulbarga-Bidar are lagging mostly because land acquisition issues as told by Muniyappa. And I am not clear how much budget CRS would need for first year, considering it will take 5 years to complete project.

Bangalore (the gateway to Karnataka) and the highest software exporter of India and the only city known to President Obama of USA does not even figure in the scheme of things of our Railway Minister and other politicians.

The metro railway is a costly concrete monster and does not cover the entire city and its suburbs.  Moreover, the fares are also likely to be beyond the common man's affordability for daily to and fro office travel.

Bangalore has a number of railway stations in the entire city and its former suburbs but now very much part of the city - like Hebbal, Yelahanka, Kodigehalli, Yeshwantpur, Banaswadi, KR Puram, Hosur, Kengeri, etc etc which are very much underutilised and is also not useful to the city commuter.  The Bangalore International Airport is well on the Chikkaballapur Railway line and easily train services can be introduced by establishing a Railway Station at the Trumpet Interchange under which the Railway line passes, TO START WITH.  This will reduce the traffic to some extent on the Bellay Road.  Then, they can double the tracks and introduce regular trains ALL THIS CAN BE DONE AT A FRACTION OF THE COST OF METRO RAIL which run into almost Rs.15000 crores or more eventually and will have to be borne by the already overburdened Bangaloreans !

It is really surprising that Bangal-Bihar-Nagpur-Chennai Railways (formerly known as Indian Railways) does not know about the existence of a HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE CITY CALLED 'BANGALORE'.

Anyhow, there is no justification or logic whatsoever for NOT DEVELOPING A SUBURBAN RAILWAY SYSTEM IN BANGALORE (ALSO CALLED THE SILICON VALLEY OF INDIA) AND THE HARDWORKING BOYS AND GIRLS OF WHICH GIVE PRESIDENT OBAMA THE NIGHTMARE.  Bangalore already has single borad gauge tracks touching virtually all the places and also passing near the Bangalore International Airport.  Bangalore Division can straightaway increase the existing train frequency in the free slots available.  The best option to START WITH would be to introduce two pairs of circular trains in each direction, one from KR Puram side and the other from Kengeri side via City Station, Malleswaram, Yeswanthpur, Kodigehalli, Yelahanka etc. with a brief halt at all the intervening stations.  These trains will be useful for ALL THE COMMUTERS (both aam admi and the Airport traffic.