RailFanning is our All-Rounder Glucose that gives us Instant Power in All Seasons - Kirti Solanki

Bengaluru has the largest fleet of city buses in the world. The need for suburban trains was never felt, with depots spread evenly across outskirts and catering to even far flung villages. Now with ever growing migration and everyone wanting to own a vehicle, the traffic mess has pushed all to look for alternatives.
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These campaigns are mostly by those on the Tin factory and ORR route travellers. They are the IT crowd who get their each and every demand into newsprint. Media is customer-centric not news-centric.
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These WFD commuters, I was one too for many years, got a station built near Hoodi and got a few trains extended and halts sanctioned. Again they complained that they want feeder buses to transport them from station to offices just a km away (there already are buses a few hundred meters from the station, but they want buses just beside the station). As i have mentioned in an another blog, I and a few hundred others used to get down at CONCOR or WFD satellite where the MEMU halted and walked to our offices or many labourers to their factories. We the regular travellers had many years kept asking for atleast an overbridge at WFD, got it after some unfortunate deaths. Most important things are needed but with some its just that they want to be physically lifted from their houses and carried in palanquins to their offices, in no time :)
Never satisfied with the new changes, they want everything handed on platter.
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The above story and the views are surprising as you mentioned. There are some who live in a cocoon and their own ivory tower (A/C car), its only when things are pushed to a brink like unending traffic jam that they look for alternative and newspapers play it up with exaggeration.
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This campaign is good in creating awareness among such. But will they switch to trains? No.....
Watching the innumerous cars with single occupant or two, one realises no matter how many public transport systems are created, no matter how many feeder buses are started from metro stations or Rly. stations, people who want to travel in their cars in AC comfort will never forgo it.
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The ones we encounter in MEMU or pass are just BMTC travellers or a few who have switched from bike to train. Why would AC car folks switch to common man mode of transport :)