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Jun 22 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
A thread on Bengaluru’s suburban rail saga 🧵

Prime Minister Modi kickstarted the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project (BSRP), budgeted at Rs. 15,700 crores. Bengaluru's suburban rail project
With 4 corridors and 148 km of track, it will connect Bengaluru’s corners – KSR Bengaluru City to Devanahalli, Baiyappanahalli to Chikkabanavara, Kengeri to Whitefield, Heelalige to Rajanakunte.

More info here 👇
Suburban Rail System began operations in Mumbai in 1853, Chennai in 1931, and Kolkata in 1854.

In 1963, a daily commuter train helped HAL employees travel between Bangalore City and Vimanapura Station!

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A feasibility report for suburban railways was first done in 1983!

It sounded like simplicity itself: Bengaluru has railway tracks on three sides—East, North and West. Build tracks on the Southern side and voila, we will have a circular railway that goes all around the city.
Well, that was the plan.

Subsequently, eight reports (till 2017) have been tabled on the feasibility of suburban railway services for Bengaluru city.
For example, 2011 - Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Plan, 2012 - Implementation of Suburban Rail Services and 2015-Suburban Rail System for Bengaluru.

See: data.opencity.in/dataset/kuidfc…
In the 2000s, with traffic getting worse, mass transit came back into public discourse. Then years of back and forth, back and forth between the State and the Railways. Many moons, budgets and announcements passed by.

bengaluru.citizenmatters.in/bangalore-subu… A timeline of announcements related to Bengaluru's suburban
Meanwhile, thousands of commuters continue using passenger trains which doubled up as locals!

They even have their own community on Telegram, to help each other pin down the location of Bengaluru-Hosur trains!

bengaluru.citizenmatters.in/trainspotter-b…
#SupportNammaRailu, #chukubukubeku campaigns kept the spotlight on Commuter rail.

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Activists @tweetenator @tarauk @zibijamal @dyamannavar @MandothPrakash @rajdugar discussed how to make it happen.

Read and watch the discussion here: bengaluru.citizenmatters.in/how-citizens-c… Citizens holding placards and demanding train services. Pict
@tweetenator @tarauk @zibijamal @dyamannavar @MandothPrakash @rajdugar It has taken almost 40 years to get here, and KRIDE, the implementing agency has been now given a tight deadline of 40 months to execute the project.

So do you expect to hop on to Sampige, Mallige, Parijaata or Kanaka lines by 2026?

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