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Posted: Oct 28 2016 (00:13)
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Last Response: Oct 28 2016 (10:42)
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Using the same amount to make Bangalore airport more accesible by railway or metro. There was a blog suggedting railway tracks for dedicated service to airport. And Chennai airport is already well connected. An integrated development project involving all modes rather spending such amounts to run a train like Gatiman express with such exorbitant fares and 3 hours which no one wants to avail.
Airports and flights cannot be alternative to railways and roadways for entire city travellers even if they create metro tracks. For instance buses take 5-5.5 hrs to reach electronic city and madiwala (south end) with just rs 600 while people of whitefield indiranagar marthahalli east areas tech within 6 hrs by using trains @rs 600. If they 50% use flight they have they reach airport in chennai 30min+ 60min check in +60 min travel +30min getting into city travel mode +60-150mns for reaching destination total 4-5 hrs of journey without much savings in time. Plus creating a metro line for 40-50km till city center requires rs10000 crs and still be not useful for sectors like chennai blore and I'll be helpful for long distance travellers. By investing in existing track even if 1or2 trains travrl@160-200kmph speed the avg speed of other trains and freights I'll also improve considerably.
I agree about the cost, but even if they upgrade the route for LHB trains to hit 130kmph, that alone can bring down the travel time from 5 to 3.5-4 hours for the Shatabdi's. And the main beneficiary would be the MAS-JTJ route as that alone accounts for 219km of the 350km route between MAS and SBC and that will also be upgraded as a part of this project.
Connecting the airport by railway is something that everybody here has been demanding for a very long time. Bu the private transport lobby in Karnataka is very,very strong and suburban rail projects in Bangalore are being ignored by the government. This is despite the airport being only a couple...
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Connecting the airport by railway is something that everybody here has been demanding for a very long time. Bu the private transport lobby in Karnataka is very,very strong and suburban rail projects in Bangalore are being ignored by the government. This is despite the airport being only a couple...
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(1 Koundinya wildlife sanctuary shall fall in way of new alignment, and elevated tracks can be laid in the sanctuary so as to ensure safety and unhindered movement of wild animals.
(2) Today Rly track constructions techniques are extremely advanced as compared to the techniques adopted more than a century ago, for the construction of present MAS-SBC route, and today 300kmph+ train operation is done in hilly regions in developed countries, 160 kmph is not a big challenge.
(3) Cost of construction of straight rly line however increase with hilly...
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(2) Today Rly track constructions techniques are extremely advanced as compared to the techniques adopted more than a century ago, for the construction of present MAS-SBC route, and today 300kmph+ train operation is done in hilly regions in developed countries, 160 kmph is not a big challenge.
(3) Cost of construction of straight rly line however increase with hilly...
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