Mass Rapid Transit in India

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 22 Dec 2015 06:55

Delhi Metro signs MoU with Solar Energy Corporation of India

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) will now jointly collaborate on taking up an ‘off site’ solar power project, to maximise the use of renewable energy, mitigate the impact of regular increase in grid tariffs and to reduce the carbon footprint. A fresh Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with this objective was signed today in the presence of DMRC’s Managing Director, Dr. Mangu Singh and other senior officials from DMRC and SECI.

DMRC intends to take 1,000 MU annually from “offsite” renewable sources, through a one stop solution. As per the MoU, both the organisations shall collaborate for sourcing additional requirement of power by DMRC from other developers /generators not on DMRC sites within NCR region. In the initial phase, 500 MWp capacity of ground mounted solar power projects within a duration of three years is targeted. Both DMRC and SECI shall jointly develop an ‘Action Plan’ to source solar power on mutually agreed terms and conditions, from sources other than solar power generated on DMRC sites.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 22 Dec 2015 08:56

Kochi’s Metro to Start Receiving Alstom Coaches From January 2

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member_26535 · Post by **member_26535** » 22 Dec 2015 11:24

Gurus

Sydney Metro runs double decker trains. Small portion of it is underground too. Is anything like this being explored in India ? With the numbers that we will clock, looks like we may need something like that .

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 22 Dec 2015 11:45

Sydney has no metro in service right now. One will come into service in 2019. It has double decker commuter trains, which aren't any sort of panacea and receives its share of criticism:
Double-decker trains a mistake for Sydney

member_26535 · Post by **member_26535** » 22 Dec 2015 17:04

Thanx Suraj.

I travelled around in the last few days with several trips on these. Am impressed with the volume that it can carry compared to what we have now. The criticism in this link seems to be directed at the incompatibility with the newer systems that are being developed now rather than the double deck per se.

Is there a view on whether it was considered at all in the Indian context ?

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 22 Dec 2015 18:47

Not for urban mass transit systems. There are several routes in the IR network which use them like Poona-Daund/Baramati , Kachiguda - Guntur, Bangalore - Chennai etc.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 22 Dec 2015 19:03

There's a disconnect between the title and content here:

Metro work resumes on Anna Salai in Chennai

Officials of the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) said the work had begun on this stretch a few days ago and the workers are currently in the process of dewatering the Saidapet station and the tunnel as they were flooded during the rains in the first week of December. “We have been pumping out water using motors for a while now. The process may be completed soon,” an official said.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 22 Dec 2015 19:10

Telangana Govt Reveals 83 km Phase 2 of Hyderabad Metro Project

The 5 proposed corridors announced for Phase 2 are:

#1 – LB Nagar – Hayathnagar (7 km)
#2 – Miyapur – BHEL – Patancheru (13 km)
#3 – Nagole – LB Nagar – Falaknuma – Shamshabad Airport (28 km)
#4 – Raidurg – Gachibowli – Shamshabad Airport (28 km)
#5 – Tarnaka – ECIL (7 km)

TMRG has embedded maps of how this might look like in this post.

shravanp · Post by **shravanp** » 22 Dec 2015 19:20

From Delhi to Kochi, everywhere work on Metro is in full steam whereas there's zero movement on amchi Mumbai

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 23 Dec 2015 03:40

skekatpuray - The tendering process for 3 lines in Mumbai is at different stages. Work for all 3 will begin by mid 2016.

• Dahisar - DN Nagar - tenders to be invited this week; contracts to be awarded in Feb 2016.
• Dahisar (e) - Andheri (e) - tenders for 3 sections invited last week ; contracts to be awarded in Feb 2016.
• Colaba - SEEPZ - lowest bidders for all 7 sections announced ; contracts to be given out after MMRCL gets approval from JICA and negotiates contract value with bidders as the bids were ~50% over the original estimate. RITES had used the Delhi Metro's underground construction cost in 2011 as a benchmark to derive this line's cost. Big big snafu.

vsunder · Post by **vsunder** » 23 Dec 2015 06:49

Rohit_K wrote:Not for urban mass transit systems. There are several routes in the IR network which use them like Poona-Daund/Baramati , Kachiguda - Guntur, Bangalore - Chennai etc.

And also add the recently inaugurated Mumbai to Madgaon,Goa. Apparently these are not doing so well and Bhopal Indore was stopped as there were few takers. Lot of angst in a ToI article about how good Brindavan exp is and how bad double decker is and how SR is forcing people to takd DD and withdrawing AC in Brindavan and making the two trains leave 20 mins apart for Bangalore. In any case I prefer DD and will be on it on Dec 30th. Yeah the mean nasty guy in the corner on Dec 30, that is moi.

arshyam · Post by **arshyam** » 23 Dec 2015 08:09

The Kacheguda(Hyderabad)-Guntur double decker (and its counterpart KCG-Tirupati) will not operate beyond Jan 16, 2016 (Sankranti). Lack of patronage, I believe.

vsunder saar, that ToI article about the Bengaluru DD was perhaps a result of angry railfans in a certain railway forum that shall be unnamed

. While the DD train is not so bad and was decently comfortable when I travelled by it recently, it did not have the leg room that a normal AC chair car offers. But SR did do a bad thing in demoting a train of such distinguished history as Brindavan, and it was just sad and unnecessary. First they removed the AC chair cars one by one, then removed the pantry car, then converted most of the train to unreserved status. It was painful to watch this, and a lot of folks were angry in that railway forum. That ToI article said what had to be said

. SR could have run the DD in a faster avatar and not make it the shadow of Brindavan, or at least moved the name plate over to the double decker and called it done.

arshyam · Post by **arshyam** » 23 Dec 2015 08:51

Rohit_K wrote:Telangana Govt Reveals 83 km Phase 2 of Hyderabad Metro Project

The 5 proposed corridors announced for Phase 2 are:

#1 – LB Nagar – Hayathnagar (7 km)
#2 – Miyapur – BHEL – Patancheru (13 km)
#3 – Nagole – LB Nagar – Falaknuma – Shamshabad Airport (28 km)
#4 – Raidurg – Gachibowli – Shamshabad Airport (28 km)
#5 – Tarnaka – ECIL (7 km)
TMRG has embedded maps of how this might look like in this post.

While Hyderabad is quietly building a monster of a network without worrying about tunneling and flooding (I suppose the geology precludes it), I hope they are not considering the alignments exactly as shown in the blog post. Let's see what the DPR says.

My complaints with the proposed alingnments are, the metro is looking to build most of the network out of the city, and along the ORR, which is far from population centers. While it is laudable to plan for the future and encourage growth, getting RoI will be difficult and the city areas will continue to stay congested.

For example, I am hoping they plan the route for #4 as:
Shilparamam - Gachibowli - Manikonda (or if land is a problem, directly to Raidurg on the old Mumbai hwy) - Tolichowki - Mehdipatnam - along the PVNR e-way and NH-7 - Shamshabad. The old Mumbai highway up to Mehdipatnam is wide enough to support a central elevated line, and there may be some land acquisition needed at Mehdipatnam, but this ensures
a) old city with contentious land acquisition issues are mostly avoided
b) line runs through population centers ensuring ridership
c) de-congests the traffic prone Mehdipatnam.

The ORR route can be reserved for a future phase, methinks.

Or better yet, revive the line from JNTU to Gachibowli and have #4 start from there leaving the Shilparamam end to be extended towards UoH campus or the ORR route in the future.

Folks from Hyderabad, any comments on the feasibility of this route?

I am not much of a fan of a ring railway, most of the time the traffic direction is in along the spokes of the ring, not the circumference. A ring will be useful only when there are enough spokes connecting to it. Both Delhi and Kolkata have shown this to be true.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 23 Dec 2015 08:57

Cabinet approves Lucknow Metro project at an estimated cost of Rs 6,928 crore

NEW DELHI: Cabinet today approved the construction of first phase of the Metro Rail Project in Lucknow at an estimated cost of Rs 6,928 crore.

Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Cabinet approved the Lucknow Metro Rail Project Phase - 1A covering 22.878 km distance between Chowdhary Charan Singh Airport and Munshi Pulia with 22 stations.

According to TMRG's post covering the above news:

I must highlight that the 8.3 km priority stretch from Charbagh to Transport Nagar which will be operational by March 2017 is currently under construction entirely with funds provided by the Uttar Pradesh state government.

This approval from the union cabinet is significant since this along with the Public Investment Board’s approval in August 2015 will now make sure the project receives ~ Rs 4800 crores of funds from both foreign lenders (Agence Française de Développement & European Investment Bank) and from the central government to construct the remaining sections of the line from Charbagh to Munshi Pulia and from Transport Nagar to the Airport.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 23 Dec 2015 09:04

Metro work to begin in Hyderabad's Sultan Bazaar

HYDERABAD: In a clear indication that metro works are set to start in Sultan Bazaar area, Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited ( HMRL) on Tuesday acquired 1,370 square yards of land belonging to a petrol pump opposite the Osmania Medical College at Putlibowli Junction.

A release issued by HMRL said that the land acquired would be used for parking and circulation facility for Sultan Bazaar metro station. It will also serve as parking lot for HMR Relief & Rehabilitation Complex (R&R complex). The HMRL's R&R complex is to accommodate the traders of Sultan Bazaar set to lose their shops for the metro project.

The complex will house 80 shops and 100 hawker platforms. "With the acquisition of petrol pump land it will help speeding up of the works in Sultan Bazaar area," said an HMRL official. Amid the resistance from Sultan Bazaar traders for the metro works, acquisition of the petrol pump land was long pending due to a court litigation.

LMRC Invites Bids for Detailed Design Consultant for Kanpur Metro’s IIT – Naubasta Line

The Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) which has been entrusted to execute the Kanpur Metro project has invited bids from global and Indian consultants to prepare the detailed design of Kanpur’s 23.785 km line from IIT Kanpur to Naubasta! This move comes just a month after the project’s Detailed Project Report was submitted to the Uttar Pradesh government for its approval.

L&T Infra to Design 9 Stations on Nagpur Metro’s Khapri – Automotive Square Line

The Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Limited (NMRCL)’s Managing Director Brajesh Dixit recently gave a brief overview of the progress made on Nagpur’s upcoming metro system. One of the updates included news on L&T Infrastructure Engineering Limited winning the Detailed Design Consultancy contract to construct 9 stations on the north-south Khapri – Automotive Square line!

vina · Post by **vina** » 23 Dec 2015 09:23

From Delhi to Kochi, everywhere work on Metro is in full steam whereas there's zero movement on amchi Mumbai

Include Namma Bengaluru in that as well. These cretins have been sitting with their thumbs up their backsides .

Consider the build out. They should have FIRST built it out to electronics, city, whitefield, Koramangala and the ORR all the way to Mysore road and maybe on to Hebbal (basically the IT/VIty belt and the new areas first). This could have be done fully over ground and would have removed the bulk of the office traffic and commute pain out of Bangalore. But NO. They needed to build a metro into the city centre first, and an UG stretch in front of Vidhana Soudha (WHICH MANTRI /YUMYELLYAA, is going to take the metro to work) for the random clerks and low level baboons to go to Aapish in Vidhana Soudha and Corporation, who as an ilk are the most useless of all of God's creation.

Oh no, so instead of building that section last, they want to it to be built FIRST , inflict massive delays and shaft everyone else in the process.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 23 Dec 2015 19:37

Mumbai's Dahisar to DN Nagar metro line: Maharashtra to pay Rs 334 crore for DMRC’s services

While the Maharashtra government has roped in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to implement the next phase of the Mumbai Metro rail with a view to bring in the latter’s expertise in execution, the decision will cost the state an additional Rs 334 crore.

The chief minister-led Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) in its recent executive committee meeting approved a payment of Rs 333.97 crore, roughly the cost of a 2-km length of elevated road in Mumbai, to the DMRC. The payment will be the DMRC’s fee to act as the implementing agency for the 18.5-km Dahisar-DN Nagar elevated Metro Rail corridor. The line will be the first phase of the proposed Dahisar-Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd Metro.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 23 Dec 2015 19:40

Bangalore Metro’s TBM Krishna Finally Starts Tunneling from Chickpet to Majestic

After undergoing maintenance for 112 days, TBM Krishna in Bangalore has finally started tunneling work again! Yesterday afternoon, the TBM began its initial drive on the Green line’s up-line tunnel and placed 3 temporary rings. Actual boring/mining work through Bangalore’s terrain from Chickpet station to Majestic station, a distance of 747m, is expected to begin later today. This is the last tunnel to be bored on the entire system with work also in progress by TBM Godavari (green arrow) and TBM Kaveri (blue arrow)

TBM Krishna could realistically take anywhere from 12 to 15 months to complete, which places the opening of the Green line’s underground section and the entire Phase 1 project towards the end of 2017.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 23 Dec 2015 20:53

hope my son gets to enjoy it one day...I will probably leave my mortal coil and merge with The Force by then.

Abhay_S · Post by **Abhay_S** » 23 Dec 2015 21:01

arshyam wrote:
My complaints with the proposed alingnments are, the metro is looking to build most of the network out of the city, and along the ORR, which is far from population centers. While it is laudable to plan for the future and encourage growth, getting RoI will be difficult and the city areas will continue to stay congested.

For example, I am hoping they plan the route for #4 as:
Shilparamam - Gachibowli - Manikonda (or if land is a problem, directly to Raidurg on the old Mumbai hwy) - Tolichowki - Mehdipatnam - along the PVNR e-way and NH-7 - Shamshabad. The old Mumbai highway up to Mehdipatnam is wide enough to support a central elevated line, and there may be some land acquisition needed at Mehdipatnam, but this ensures
a) old city with contentious land acquisition issues are mostly avoided
b) line runs through population centers ensuring ridership
c) de-congests the traffic prone Mehdipatnam.

The ORR route can be reserved for a future phase, methinks.

Or better yet, revive the line from JNTU to Gachibowli and have #4 start from there leaving the Shilparamam end to be extended towards UoH campus or the ORR route in the future.

Folks from Hyderabad, any comments on the feasibility of this route?

I am not much of a fan of a ring railway, most of the time the traffic direction is in along the spokes of the ring, not the circumference. A ring will be useful only when there are enough spokes connecting to it. Both Delhi and Kolkata have shown this to be true.

As a Hydrabadi i have a mixed feelings about this plan. The future of the city is moving West around ORR and the Metro seems to be following it. Right now the ORR areas look like Massa suburbs and will take a long time for support infra to come up. Parents refuse to move there.

The problem with hyderabad is the horrendus commute young people have going to the ITvity center. it took me 2 hrs if i drove paris-dakar rally style and almost considerd moving out of my parents house

The metro was supposed to solve this but I think it is now too late. will have to wait and see how this will pan out.

why the JNTU to Gachibowli was cancelled is beyond me. I like arshyam ji's idea but Hyd is betting on the ORR and by the time it arrives it will be the future.

Now if we could just connect Mehdipatnam to the green line but much easier said than done.

And to decongest the city some one please ask the Travels busses to park in a bus stand instead of the middle of the road.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 24 Dec 2015 07:16

Metro-II corridor in Mumbai to be elevated: MMRDA

Mumbai: The 22-km stretch between DN Nagar in Andheri to Mankhurd on the 40km Dahisar-Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd Metro-II corridor will be elevated and not underground, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided. This means the entire corridor will now be elevated.

"The draft report submitted by DMRC for the corridor between D N Nagar to Mankhurd has suggested an elevated path. It has also recommended that the corridor be extended by 1.3km at the Mankhurd-end up to Mandalay as the car shed is proposed there," said Sanjay Sethi, additional metropolitan commissioner.

The Metro-II corridor had faced opposition from those living on Linking Road between Santacruz and Bandra who wanted it underground. But as the project cost was pegged at Rs 25,000 crore—three times costlier than an elevated corridor—MMRDA decided to build an elevated Metro-II. The Phase 2B corridor will pass along Linking Road to Mankhurd via Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). It will have an interlink facility in BKC, from where Metro-III underground corridor (Seepz-Ban-dra-Colaba) will criss-cross.

The DMRC has been roped in by the MMRDA to prepared a detailed project report for Metro-II corridor and a meeting between the officials of the two agencies to discuss the same is scheduled on December 30. "The detailed project report will have to be approved in the MMRDA meeting before it is placed before the cabinet. Thereafter, tenders for the work can be invited," said another officer.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 24 Dec 2015 07:19

New construction images of Delhi Metro's 159 km Phase 3 project: Delhi Metro Phase 3 – December 2015 Update

vsunder · Post by **vsunder** » 24 Dec 2015 11:25

@Arshyam: Yes I know. Similar to the fate of 15up, 16Dn GT Express of my young days or Punjab and Frontier Mails.

@Rohit_k: Latest on NM: Godavari has done 500m, 473m left for breakthrough at Majestic.
Kaveri is waiting for hell to freeze over,

goops, waiting for the grout to settle, harden etc
under those cracked buildings and is stopped at 558m, 189m left for breakthrough at Majestic.

Bangalore has a problem in that Namma Metro, BBMP, IR and other bodies never sit down and devise an integrated mass transport plan. For example let us take one poster's comments. He may not be aware that there is a circular railway path exactly at Hebbal, etc as he wishes. It starts from Yeshwanthpur, splits off the Yellahanka line at Lottegollahalli halt, moves to Hebbal, Banaswadi and joins the Chennai line at Bypannahalli. There is even a second circular line between Yellahanka and Chennasandra , concentric with the previously mentioned one. This second line is almost doubled. For example if you take a jaunt on Tirupati intercity that will start from Yeshwanthpur and move through all these "happening" places of Bengaluru above and join the Chennai-SBC line at Bypannahalli and then Whitefield, Devagonthi and whatever. Both Yeshwantpur and Bypannahalli are on the Metro and have reasonably good connections between IR and Metro stations. Yeshwantpur is on the Green line and Bypannahalli is on the Purple line.

But this circular line is single track, only just and only just now, IR will commission in the next few months a double line between Chennasandra and Yellahanka and Yeshwantpur and Yellahanka. What prevents IR from running commuter rail on these circular lines and satisfying this poster? But no IR has always idiots on its staff. For example, it still does not run EMU's on the Mysore line but DEMU to Ramanagar. Why, because some panga, fight of IR with KTPCL about some transmission line is too low, lines were put in in British days or the days of Bijapur sultan and cannot be moved so tamasha is going on. Fine theek hai, but why does this idiot IR start the existing DEMU service at 4.30pm and then say not enough passengers, don't these morons know offices close later. Then they say Chamundi express has lot more people, of course even an idiot will tell you that, since Chamundi express to Mysore leaves Bangalore at 6.15pm after the offices close and giving people time to reach SBC station. IR claims after this doubling work to Yellahanka is complete and commissioned it will think of commuter rail in Bengaluru. Also no amount of Metro and this and that will solve any traffic problem in any Indian city. Delhi traffic is terrible, I just saw it, and when the African HoS were in town, things went haywire and berserk. All this mass transit this and that is just slowing down the woes, dy/dt is a little smaller, it will never be negative or zero, that will only happen when population falls significantly. In Bangalore the pain will only get worse, as development has taken place without any masterplan. Oh yes, people want links, as I am usually cryptic: Here, morongiri dekh lo! 4.30pm train and poor response

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/ ... 931664.ece

Details of the panga between IR and KPTCL and why IR cannot run MEMU services between Bangalore and Ramnagar.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/ban ... 882062.ece

This is all a hoax, the real reason is this: IR is frightened: ( the movie was shot in Ramnagar and so was A Passage to India)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMylx20IoxY

https://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/K ... 00500.html

Picklu · Post by **Picklu** » 24 Dec 2015 12:26

^^ vsundar sir, the proposed IR lines all cater to traditional north Bangalore while the hip and happening beepul are crashing and killing each other in the south.

It is easier and safer to cross LOC than cross the silk board junction.

Any circular rail should cover hebbal, NICE road, ecity and sarjapura as 4 extreme points. Some spur should connect the north-south and east-west extreme points.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 24 Dec 2015 19:53

vsunder wrote:@Rohit_k: Latest on NM: Godavari has done 500m, 473m left for breakthrough at Majestic.
Kaveri is waiting for hell to freeze over, goops, waiting for the grout to settle, harden etc
under those cracked buildings and is stopped at 558m, 189m left for breakthrough at Majestic.

Thanks for the update. So looks like order of breakthrough will be Kaveri (mid 2016?) -> Godavari (end 2016?) -> Krishna (mid 2017?)

btw what's up with naming the TBM 'Krishna' which is predominately masculine and a strict no-no as per tradition around the world? Probably explains why it's the worst performing TBM of the lot.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 24 Dec 2015 20:04

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar approves Patna Metro Rail project

PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar approved the long awaited Patna Metro Rail project's proposal on Tuesday while directing that it be sent for the central government's clearance, officials said. He approved the proposal for the metro rail project at a meeting called to review the performance of the state urban development department here.

Bihar Urban Development Minister Maheshwar Hazari said the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the Patna Metro Rail project would be presented to the state cabinet for approval soon.

TMRG's take:

Bihar CM Gives In-Principle Approval for Patna’s 27.88 km Metro System

During a recent meeting with the Urban Development and Housing Department in Patna, Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar gave his in-principle approval for the Rs 14,000 crore Patna metro project! While this approval really does not amount to anything significant as far as the project’s progress goes, it does indicate that the project has his full backing to ensure it progresses smoothly through all the hoops it needs to jump through at the state level.

The project’s Detailed Project Report (DPR) for 2 lines has been prepared by RITES Ltd. and will very soon be placed before the state government’s cabinet. An approval from the cabinet is what will kick-start the project.

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Line 1 (east – west): Danapur Cantonment – Bypass Chowk
Line 2 (north – south): Patna Junction – ISBT

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 25 Dec 2015 07:41

A busy year ahead for the fast-expanding Delhi Metro

The Delhi Metro, which will complete 13 years in the city on Thursday, seems to have a challenging year lined up ahead with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) intending to commission its ambitious Phase-III network. Only 18 kilometres were added to the metro network this year, while in 2016 the National Capital Region will witness an expansion of 159 kilometres.

It was on December 24, 2002, that the first Metro service in Delhi was formally flagged off between the Shahdara and Tis Hazari stations on the Red Line. With an initial network of just 8.5 kilometres, six stations and one route in 2002, the Delhi Metro has expanded to cover 213 kilometres with 160 stations on seven corridors.

Anuj Dayal, DMRC, Executive Director (Corporate Communications) said, “The main highlight of the year 2015 was the extension of the Metro to the satellite city of Faridabad. The Metro was also extended to Samaypur Badli in the north of the Capital and till the busy office hub of ITO in the heart of the city.”

kittoo · Post by **kittoo** » 25 Dec 2015 08:00

Rohit_K wrote:Metro-II corridor in Mumbai to be elevated: MMRDA

Mumbai: The 22-km stretch between DN Nagar in Andheri to Mankhurd on the 40km Dahisar-Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd Metro-II corridor will be elevated and not underground, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided. This means the entire corridor will now be elevated.

"The draft report submitted by DMRC for the corridor between D N Nagar to Mankhurd has suggested an elevated path. It has also recommended that the corridor be extended by 1.3km at the Mankhurd-end up to Mandalay as the car shed is proposed there," said Sanjay Sethi, additional metropolitan commissioner.

The Metro-II corridor had faced opposition from those living on Linking Road between Santacruz and Bandra who wanted it underground. But as the project cost was pegged at Rs 25,000 crore—three times costlier than an elevated corridor—MMRDA decided to build an elevated Metro-II. The Phase 2B corridor will pass along Linking Road to Mankhurd via Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). It will have an interlink facility in BKC, from where Metro-III underground corridor (Seepz-Ban-dra-Colaba) will criss-cross.

The DMRC has been roped in by the MMRDA to prepared a detailed project report for Metro-II corridor and a meeting between the officials of the two agencies to discuss the same is scheduled on December 30. "The detailed project report will have to be approved in the MMRDA meeting before it is placed before the cabinet. Thereafter, tenders for the work can be invited," said another officer.

Yeah, I dont see Mumbai metro getting its second line in even ten years from now. Mumbai will have to chug along like this. One has to see the traffic on Western express highway to believe. Its choked all the time! Mumbai's traffic condition has absolutely worsened in past couple of years and there is no solution in sight, with Metro becoming a joke. Things are going to get worse.

vsunder · Post by **vsunder** » 25 Dec 2015 10:08

@Rohit_k : I expect Godavari to tunnel much faster now on the average of 80m a month. So I expect by early July it should be done. I would not wager any money on what Krishna and Kaveri do. The reason that Godavari should tunnel fast now is that Margarita went in the opposite direction from Majestic to Sampige Rd. The first 500m was really fast, with some month it doing 100m at the start for example. Then it hit the granite strata and for the next 450m it was a crawl. Godavari started with the granite strata at Sampige rd. broke the cutter head and all sorts of problems happened. It has long cleared the bad zone and entered the zone where Margarita excelled. So it should repeat Margarita's performance and do well esp. in the last 100m. Already it has tunneled 40m in about 18 days.

member_28108 · Post by **member_28108** » 25 Dec 2015 17:07

People in Bangalore forget that many people actually cross the central business district and think the IT corridor is the only place with traffic congestion. Actually most traffic holdup which cascades outwards is originating from blocks in the central business district. Just see what happens when Majestic clogs up and how it spreads out everywhere- it is phenomenal to see how it happens and how this tangled web can be influenced by problems in one node. SoWhy do you think the peripheral lines that have been constructed are still at loss simply because the majestic interchange has not been commissioned. The software centers forget that there is a huge mobile crowd that crosses the entire city to work. In fact I cross the CBD daily(Inf act now use an alternate route avoiding some congested areas.This obsession in thinking that the IT corridor is the solution is myopic. For eg on double road flyover a lefft turn on Raja Ram mohan Roy was actually needed that would have decongested the residency road/Museum roads but now all buses stack up under the flyover making it a bottle neck.That actually has a higher passenger/vehicle count than the MG Road branch !!

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 25 Dec 2015 18:39

vsunder - thanks for the lowdown!

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Electrician killed at Bangalore Metro site

A 24-year-old electrician, Anand Kumar, was killed in an accident at the Namma Metro construction site at Majestic station after he slipped and fell down, 25 feet below, from the environmental control system plant room on Thursday.

Anand was rushed to St Martha's hospital, where he failed to respond to treatment and died a while later. The matter is being investigated by BMRCL safety engineer and also the local police who have been informed about the accident.

Anand Kumar is a resident of Gorakhpur, in Uttar Pradesh. His wife and parents have been informed and the sub-contractor is making arrangements for their journey to Bengaluru and all other necessary arrangements in this regard. The BMRCL has announced an ex gratia payment of Rs 50,000 to the family to meet immediate needs. The electrician was employed by Tiwary Electricals, which is a sub-contractor of Blue Star Limited. The Upparpet police are investigating the matter.

Kashi · Post by **Kashi** » 25 Dec 2015 18:49

^^ Bhagwaan uski aatma ko shanti de.

A tragic loss.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 25 Dec 2015 20:07

First U-Girder Launched for NC01 Section of Noida – Gr.Noida Metro at Sector 51-72

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Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 26 Dec 2015 08:13

A nice read: Capital’s Ring Railway is an ‘available resource with immense potential

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 26 Dec 2015 08:16

Kochi’s First Metro Train Gets Ready to Roll Out of Alstom’s Indian Plant

The motor-car of the first train for Kochi’s Metro was recently spotted getting ready for delivery at Alstom’s rolling stock manufacturing plant located at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh! This coach is part of the 75 coach (25 train-sets x 3 coach) contract that Alstom India had won in August 2014 after quoting a price of Rs 633 crore.

vsunder · Post by **vsunder** » 26 Dec 2015 18:38

The linked document provides the RDSO guidelines that is used to award safety certificates to Metro systems in India:

http://www.rdso.indianrailways.gov.in/w ... 281%29.pdf

Details of various tests, parameters for safe oscillation and parameters of how many bogies to be used in tests, details of power safety parameters, neutral zones etc etc. the document is comprehensive. It seems to have been updated this month. Flow chart on pg. 49 is particularly instructive.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 29 Dec 2015 07:56

Odd-even scheme: Delhi Metro decides on 70 additional trips daily

NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro trains will make 70 additional trips during the odd-even trial period, taking the number of daily trips to 3,192, that will lead to a marginal increase in the frequency of its services to tackle an expected rush of passengers.

DMRC, which has in its fleet 220 trains, will be using 198 trains daily to achieve the target. "We will be pressing into service the maximum number of trains possible operationally during this period keeping only the essential maintenance reserve," a metro official said. Accordingly, the highest train frequency on Blue Line (Line 3/4), that connects Dwarka to Noida City Centre, would be 2 minutes 30 seconds (between 9-10 AM). The same would be 2 mins 18 secs on Line 2, that connects Samaypur Badli to Gurgaon's Huda City Centre.

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 29 Dec 2015 07:59

New Images of Ahmedabad’s Metro Under Construction at Night

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 29 Dec 2015 20:24

BMC set to lease out 17 plots to Metro Rail Corp

Mumbai : The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will be leasing out 17 plots to the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) for a period of 30 years to construct the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ underground Metro corridor. As per the proposal with the civic body’s Improvements Committee, which will be discussed on Tuesday, the MMRC will pay a total of Rs 287 crore as rent according to the current ready reckoner rate.

The proposal stated that these plots — some of which could be leased out temporarily and some permanently — are required to construct tunnels, railway stations, parking, etc. The agreement for the plots required for the five-year construction period will be renewed every 11 months, the proposal stated. Meanwhile, for the permanent plots, after the 30-year-period, the BMC will renew the contract as per the ready reckoner rates prevalent then, it added.

The locations of these plots are Colaba, Woods Garden, Cuffe Parade, Bhatia Baug, CST, Nariman Point Fire Station, Vidhan Bhavan, Rotary Garden, Churchgate, the parking space opposite Eros Theatre, Hutatma Chowk Garden, BMC Education Department Office, Grant Road, a portion of Sane Guruji Chowk and Nair Road Chowk, Mahalaxmi, portion behind Siddhivinayak Temple, Vigyaan Bhavan, E Moses Road chowk, Acharya Atre Chowk, BMC Engineering hub in Worli, Marol naka, Marol village road and Marol Fire Station.