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S.ravi
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 Posted - 08/19/2009 : 19:17:40
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Metro work set to go underground
‘Cut-and-cover’ method to be adopted
BANGALORE: After a delay of nearly six months, work on underground stations and tunnelling for Namma Metro is set to begin September end or early October.
The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd., (BMRCL) has been given the go ahead by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) after the agency evaluated technical and financial bids submitted by prospective contractors for the underground project.
Consortiums
One consortium each has qualified for the two underground corridors in technical and financial evaluation carried out by BMRCL, including construction of underground stations, said a senior BMRCL official.
The underground project, total cost of which comes to around Rs. 3,000 crore, will be executed in two stages – construction of stations and boring the tunnels. Contracts for underground construction on the two corridors were expected to be awarded shortly, he added.
While two underground stations at the depth of 12 metres and 18 metres will come up in Majestic, one each underground station will come up at City Railway Station (towards Magadi Road), Chickpet, City Market, Central College, Vidhana Soudha and M. Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium. The stations will be built under “cut and cover method” wherein the earth will be opened and covered after the station work was over.
Once the earth was completely dug for the station work, the contractor would commence tunnelling work by sinking the TBM shaft from the station premises.
Two tunnels of 5.5 m diameter with a separation of 5 m in between at a depth of 12 m will be built for a distance of approximately 4 km each on East-West and North-South Corridors. The tunnelling begins from the stadium and ends near Leprosy Hospital on Magadi Road in the East-West Corridor while it starts near Swastik and ends at Makkala Koota Circle on K.R. Road in North-South Corridor.
Picking up speed
The official said civil works on Namma Metro Reach 1 between Byappanahalli and the Cricket Stadium was picking up speed. “Only eight pier piles are left to be completed on Swami Vivekananda Road while 40 piers have to be erected. Both completion of piles and erection of piers are expected to be completed by October end while launching of segments for girders will begin immediately,” he said.
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Posted - 08/31/2009 : 19:46:40
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Metro will jam way for 15k cricket fans
TNN 1 September 2009, 01:47am IST
BANGALORE: Here is a shocker for cricket lovers in the city. Bangalore Metro may seriously hamper access to a significant portion of the historical Chinnaswamy stadium (north-eastern side on Cubbon Road) which seats nearly 15,000 spectators.
The train after turning from Anil Kumble Circle will pass through the police headquarters, skirt through a portion of the stadium near Karnataka Land Army Corporation before going underground near the Minsk square.
This was disclosed at an interactive session with Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, KSCA president, and Brijesh Patel, KSCA secretary, held at the TOI office on Monday.
Patel said: “They first said the train will not touch the stadium and will go underground. Now, they say they will take over the land which will affect the entry into the stadium. It will cause inconvenience to spectators. We will be forced to raise the height of the ramp. We told them to go underground a few feet before the diversion to Cubbon Road so that the stadium need not be disturbed. But they do not want to listen to us. For us it means 15,000 seats in the stadium will get isolated.’’
Patel was quick to clarify: “We are not against the Metro project. But there can be re-alignment. The stadium even hosted the World Cup. It has to be a win-win situation.” He clarified that no part of the stadium will need to be demolished. But the realignment is going to make entry to and exit from the Eastern and Northern stands difficult, forcing the KSCA to build a ramp above the Metro. Even if that is possible, the catering areas for the 15,000-odd spectators who will occupy those stands will be almost impossible to create, he said. |
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Posted - 09/04/2009 : 21:35:34
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Metro rail dislocates historic aircraft
TNN 5 September 2009, 04:03am IST
BANGALORE: Walking down the road along Chinnaswamy stadium, towards GPO, you couldn't have missed the aircraft stationed at Minsk Square. Next to the statue of an unknown soldier dedicated to the martyrs of our country, the aircraft has been a matter of pride for Bangaloreans.
But the next time you are in the vicinity, the aircraft will be conspicuous by its absence. The Metro project, which is going to eat into parts of the BRV parade ground and the cricket stadium, has displaced this statue as well.
The aircraft, Ajeet, is a single-seater interceptor with a secondary ground-attack role. It was developed by the British Folland Gnat under licence from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, and used from March 1975 to 1991. Ajeet was later shifted to Minsk Square, where it has now been stationed for over ten years.
THE BELARUS CONENCTION
* Minsk is a historic city in the erstwhile Soviet Union which. It later became the capital of Belarus. It's famous for historic events and protests. In the outskirts of Minsk is a place called Bangalore Square, where public meetings are held
* Ajeet retired in 1991, the same year when Belarus became an independent nation with Minsk at its capital
* The mayor of Belarus is said to have been impressed by the sight of the plane when he visited Bangalore
* The place was apt because of the presence of the HAL headquarters next to it. Even the HAL in-house newspaper is named after the place
* Over the years, the aircraft has become a landmark for many institutions like the Press Club
* It is now likely to be placed in the HAL museum on Airport Road
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Posted - 09/06/2009 : 19:42:11
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Govt to speed up rail work
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/23090/govt-speed-up-rail-work.html
32 firms may bid for Rs 5,000-crore project at RFQ meet on Sept 11
Bangalore, Sept 3, DHNS:
Even as the economy is beginning to show signs of recovery, the State government has decided to test the market situation by going ahead with the tendering process of the Rs 5,000-crore high-speed rail project to the BIA.
The State Infrastructure Development Department has fixed September 11 as the date for holding the Request For Qualification (RFQ) meeting for companies which have shown interest in the project. The RFQ meeting was put off thrice in the past one year, as these companies were not ready to venture into the project at
the time of slowdown.
No further delay
“We will not postpone the RFQ meeting any more. The government is hopeful that all 32 firms will participate, as the economy is showing signs of recovery. Whoever is shortlisted in the RFQ meeting will be asked to participate in the bid. We want the project work to begin in six months’ time,” Department Principal Secretary V Madhu said.
The RFQ meeting was first fixed in September 2008. But many of these firms sought more time, as they were facing financial constraints due to the economic slowdown. The department agreed to their request.
The meetings scheduled for March and August this year were also postponed. As many as 32 firms from across the globe have expressed interest in the Rs 5,000-crore project, which is proposed to be implemented on PPP model. They include Reliance Infrastructure, Tata Realty and Infrastructure (both in India), Mitsubishi Corporation, (Japan), CAF, Construcciones Network Ltd and
IERS (South Africa), Dywidag (Germany), Alstom Transport (France).
The project is planned to link the city (Police Parade ground off MG Road) with the international airport (34 kms) with a high speed rail.
Sources in the department said that there will not be further delay, as it would only make the project financially unattractive, and not viable for investors due to cost escalation. If the project is delayed for another year, it has to be re-worked entirely, sources pointed out.
Sources also said that if majority of these firms backed off, the department may have to go for re-tendering or throw the project open under the Swiss challenge method.
Chugging On
* Govt to hold meet for high speed rail project on Sept 11
* No more postponement of meeting.
* Some firms want it to be put off again due to slowdown
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Posted - 09/06/2009 : 19:50:17
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Legal hurdles lie ahead for Metro
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/63191/print
Sep 04 2009
Bengaluru
Sept. 3: Legal tangles could delay work on the Metro Rail project near Cubbon Park. Three Acts and a court order may prove to be hurdles for the transit system project in the area, legal experts say. A court order does not allow the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) to carry out work in Cubbon Park, Vidhana Soudha and high court areas without proper clearance. High court advocate Sunil Dutt Yadav said that BMRCL has not sought any change
in the Comprehensive Development Plan prepared by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). “If BMRCL is changing land use in Cubbon Park, the lawns of the high court and the area in front of Vidhana Soudha, it must seek a change in the CDP under section 14 of Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961. BMRCL must also seek permission under the Karnataka Tree Preservation Act and Karnataka Government Parks Preservation Act — both Acts ban any change in land
use in and around Cubbon Park,” he added, Petitioners are now questioning the CDP for not mentioning the stations in the Metro Rail map where only the track on which the rail will run is mentioned.
They have pointed out that the recent observations by A.N. Yellappa Reddy, chairman of BBMP’s Biodiversity Management Committee, and the refusal to allow BMRCL authorities to chop down so many trees must be taken seriously by the government. BMRCL is planning to begin the work at the earliest as underground work for the Metro Rail will require time and space for which parts of Cubbon Park and high court will be used. “While some places around Minsk Square will be used for Metro Rail, an alternative road is expected on the high court lawns which will be made after felling trees. Around 109 trees are marked for felling in and around Cubbon Park,” points out Vinay Srinivasa, a volunteer from Hasiru Usiru.
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Posted - 09/09/2009 : 20:40:00
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Metro lifts will carry 195 people at a time
http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/10/stories/2009091060460400.htm
Chennai-based Johnson Lifts to supply 176 escalators
The lifts will have four flat steps at bottom and top
Majestic to have more number of escalators
BANGALORE: Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) will install heavy duty escalators, at least four in each elevated station, to ensure easy and comfortable access for passengers.
The escalators, as per BMRCL specifications, will carry at least 195 passengers at a time.
The BMRCL Board of Directors, which met here on Tuesday, decided to issue Letter of Acceptance (LoA) to Chennai-based Johnson Lifts Pvt., Ltd. While the prequalification tender notice was issued in February 2008, five companies were short-listed to submit the technical and financial bids in June last.
Finally, Johnson Lifts bagged the contract. The cost of providing the
escalators, including one year defect liability (guarantee) and three years’ maintenance, comes to Rs. 114 crore, according to a senior BMRCL official.
After the company provides the performance guarantee, a contract would be signed, the official added.
To make the escalators passenger-friendly, BMRCL had stipulated that the product should have four flat steps at the bottom and on the top (unlike the two steps seen in most of the shopping malls); the step width should be at least one metre and the safety norms should comply with international standards.
The escalators would be available for moving up, to reach the stations in case of elevated stations and to come out of the stations in case of underground stations, said the official.
At the Majestic Station, there would be more escalators compared to others as it was a crossing station where the East-West and North-South Corridors would meet generating huge volume of passengers.
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Posted - 09/10/2009 : 11:37:15
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Mono rail gets moving
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/bangalore/Mono-rail-gets-moving/art
icleshow/4992376.cms
10 September 2009, 03:36am IST
BANGALORE: The long-pending mono rail project seems to be getting on track. The infrastructure department placed the project before the ABIDe task force members on Wednesday for discussion.
The 60-km feeder network is being planned on the Swiss Challenge method and two firms have evinced interest. However, no decision has been taken.
The members also reviewed the structural plan being prepared by the BMRDA for the Bangalore Metropolitan Region, which spreads across 8,000 sq km and includes Bangalore Rural and Ramanagaram. BMRDA is preparing a development plan and the draft copy has been presented to ABIDe.
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Posted - 09/11/2009 : 20:15:19
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Metro tender: plea dismissed
BANGALORE: Observing that the Namma Metro project in Bangalore should be implemented keeping in mind the safety of the public at large, the Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed a petition by Logwell Forge limited challenging a tender issued by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) for fastening system for rails.
BMRCL had some time ago called for tenders for supply of fastening system VOSSLOH 336 for the rails. Logwell had taken exception to the word VOSSLOH 336 system. |
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Posted - 09/12/2009 : 13:59:20
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Monorail does not find favour with Metro man
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Monorail+does+not+find+favou
r+with+Metro+man&artid=0IARgQmclmk=&SectionID=Qz/kHVp9tEs=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=UOaHCPTTmuP3XGzZRCAUTQ==&SEO=
12 Sep 2009 10:35:01 AM IST
BANGALORE: Bangalore’s decision to chose metro rail over monorail for the Namma Metro project was given a big thumbs up by none other than Delhi’s Metro man, E Sreedharan, here on Friday.
“You cannot compare the metro rail and the monorail. The capacity of a monorail is only one-third of a metro and the cost is as much. So I don’t think it is of any good for mass movement of people,” said the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC) chief, Sreedharan, while interacting with reporters after receiving the first standard gauge metro cars for the DMRC.
“A monorail is alright for religious places or an entertainment centre, but not for mass movement of people,’’ he added.
The monorail project, which had been put on the backburner after the metro project was finalised, was recently taken up again for discussion by the Agenda for Bangalore Infrastructure Development (ABIDe) task force. Earlier, experts had debated between the metro and the monorail.
Now that the metro has been finalised, the monorail has been proposed as feeder to it. A private firm has submitted a proposal for three monorail lines totaling 61.5 km. A decision on the proposal is awaited.
The proposed routes are: Hebbal to J P Nagar along the western portion of the Outer Ring Road, Peripheral Ring Road to Toll Gate along Magdi Road, Kathriguppe to National College and Hosur Road, and Bannerghatta Rd Junction to Peripheral Ring Road.
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Posted - 09/12/2009 : 21:47:43
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Namma Metro’s open invitation to disaster
Dangerous: The trenches on the Mahakavi Kuvempu Road between Harishchandra Ghat and Devaiah Park in Bangalore.
BANGALORE: Claims of the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) that the Namma Metro is causing least inconvenience to the public lie literally exposed on Mahakavi Kuvempu (MKK) Road. Perilous trenches have been dug, and Bangaloreans should prepare themselves for the worst when BMRCL undertakes underground station works.
Both sides of the arterial MKK Road between Harishchandra Ghat and Devaiah Park have been excavated by contractors engaged in demolishing buildings and shifting utility lines. Huge trenches left unattended to are an open invitation to grievous injury or worse in the event of rain or total power blackout in the area.
Residents and road-users are incensed over the perilous condition of the road. One of them, Rajaram, accused the BMRCL authorities of utter callousness with regard to public safety. Moreover, homes and people around Mariyappanapalya are bathed in the dust every day because of the heavy traffic near the proposed MKK Road and Malleswaram Metro stations.
According to Kalyanarama, who rides a two-wheeler regularly on the stretch, people negotiate through clouds of dust churned up by the civil works. And when it rains, the road turns into a dangerously slushy stretch.
If the woes here are recent, people around Old Madras Road and Chinmaya Mission Hospital (CMH) Road at the other end of the city have been coping with Metro works for years now.
The Old Madras Road, a highway, now resembles an arena for dirt track races with haphazardly erected barricades. The road is crater-ridden and the stretches have no streetlights. BMRCL has put in place neither service roads nor ensured that the existing road facilitates smooth movement of traffic.
BMTC buses squeeze between barricades, striking terror amongst both drivers and pedestrians.
“The BMRCL site office is on this road, and often segment-laden lorries and cranes emerge suddenly. In fact, there is nobody to guide the traffic, particularly when the unwieldy cranes and excavators speed alongside the traffic. In fact, a crane toppled on this road not too long ago. It was sheer luck no one died,” said Manjunath Rao, who lives in a nearby layout.
Ditto with CMH Road, where people have to struggle to move on the uneven, dug-up road.
It is not that orderliness cannot be achieved. Stretches along Chord Road in Vijayanagar area and West of Chord Road in Mahalakshmipuram locality, which are two-lane roads separated by medians are manageable. This is not because BMRCL has laid good service roads, but because the contractors are using the median to erect the piers, leaving one lane each on both sides for the traffic.
BMRCL stand
BMRCL authorities, on their part, continue to argue that maintaining roads near worksites is not their responsibility. A senior officer asked: “Show me one place where motorable road is in a shambles on M.G. Road between Anil Kumble Circle and Trinity Circle. After completing all the civil works, we will restore the roads, which will be wider than before.”
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Posted - 09/14/2009 : 11:06:34
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Metro six months late
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Metro+six+months+late&artid=
EPmdn67f8Ew=&SectionID=Qz/kHVp9tEs=&MainSectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&SectionName=UOaHC
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14 Sep 2009 06:57:58 AM IST
BANGALORE: With preliminary works being undertaken for the underground section of Namma Metro by the Banalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), the cut and cover work for the underground stations is likely to commence by the end of
this month or in the first week of October.
The contract for the construction of underground tunnels and stations from Cricket Stadium to Magadi Road and from Swastik to KR Road will be awarded by the third week of September. The BMRCL has hastened up the Metro Rail work to meet the ambitious deadline of October 2012.
BMRCL Deputy Chief Engineer BLYashavanth Chavan said that the underground tunnelling would be done by tunnel boring machine and the work is expected to start by December end.
“With both Centre and State Government approving the extension to North-South Corridor, the full network under Phase I will be commissioned by October 2012. While, Reach-1 will be commissioned for commercial operation by December 2010,” he informed.
Regarding the Phase II of Metro Rail, Chavan said that the detailed project report for it is being prepared. “The total length of Metro Rail under Phase II would be around 125 kms,” Chavan explained.
Speaking to Express, Task Force for Infrastructure Chairman CS Vishwanath said that the Metro Rail work has gained momentum despite being six months behind the
original schedule.
“However, the commercial operation of the Metro Rail depends how the things progress in the next two years,” he said.
Vishwanath further added that the project can meet its deadline provided it is programmed properly.
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Posted - 09/17/2009 : 10:30:15
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lstom consortium bags Rs 563.40 cr contract from BMRCL
http://news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?id=909170158&cat=&n_date=20090917
New Delhi | Thursday, Sep 17 2009
Alstom Projects India Ltd today said its consortium has bagged a contract worth 563.40 crore from the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) for supplying signalling equipment and services for Line one and two of the new Bangalore Metro System.
The consortium includes Alstom Projects India Ltd, Alstom Transport SA, Thales Security Solutions and Services and Sumitomo Corporation, a company statement
said.
The total value of the contract is Rs 563.40 crore of which the company's share is worth Rs 187 crore, As per the deal Alstom will provide signalling equipment and services including Urbalis 200 train control system, station signalling equipment and integrated operation control centre.
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Posted - 09/18/2009 : 20:06:08
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Patil Group to supply metro tracks
TNN 18 September 2009, 04:22am IST
BANGALORE: Bangalore Metro will have world-class tracks like in Germany. The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRC) has awarded a Rs 200-crore contract to railway engineering solutions company Patil Rail Infrastructure Ltd (Pril) to design fastening systems for tracks covering 84.6 km.
While the total distance to be covered under the project is 42.30 route km, the double tracks make it 84.6 track km. The fastening systems for tracks will be laid between Bayappanhalli and Mysore Road in the east-west corridor, and between Hessarghatta and Puttenhalli in the north-south corridor.
The tracks will be plinth type ballast-less track, a proven design used in more than 10 metro train projects across the world and in different gauges. These tracks won't have the traditional wooden or concrete sleepers/planks supported by stones. Instead, they will be held by rail clips and have slabs underneath, which make rail movement safe.
Pril has implemented rail projects in New Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai and won the first ever high-speed ballast-less track solution in India for the Delhi Airport Express Link. The Patil Group is working with German company RailOne AG to install the tracks.
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Posted - 09/21/2009 : 03:41:59
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Metro track laying from Feb
Bangalore:
The work on laying tracks for the 42.30 km route of the 'Namma Metro' project is likely to commence in February or March 2010 and will be completed in 140 weeks.
“The work on laying of tracks would most likely begin in February next year at a pace of 400 meters a day. While we would supply the ballastless track, BMRCL engineers would lay the track.
Reach 1 from Cricket Stadium on M G Road to Byappanahalli will be completed by October 2010, with the entire route on Phase I, expected to be over in September 2012,” announced L S Patil, the executive chairman of Patil Rail Infrastructure Private Limited, at a media briefing here on Thursday.
Patil Rail, a Hyderabad-based company has been awarded the Rs 200 crore contract (Rs 3.5 crore per route km) to design, manufacture and supply plinth system ballastless tracks for the Rs 8,000 crore Metro project. Once the laying of tracks is done, testing of rolling stock (train coaches) and signalling/communication systems will be undertaken by BMRCL, said the officials from Patil Rail.
The company will supply tracks with plinth system and fastening technology, in collaboration with RailOne AG, Germany for establishing a link between Byappanahalli and Mysore Road in the East-West corridor and between Hesaraghatta Road terminal and Puttenahalli in the North-South corridor. Once in place, the end-to-end travel between these two points of the City will approximately be 45 minutes.
The tracks are designed to have an urban Metro train traverse at a speed of upto 95 kmph.
Established in 1971, the company has executed major projects for the Chennai and Delhi Metro Rail, Delhi Airport High-Speed Express Link and is also a major supplier for Konkan Railway, Indian Railway and Bangladesh Railway projects.
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