BENGALURU (Metro Rail News): Karnataka’s Chief Minister DK Sivakumar proposed Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridors connecting Bengaluru with Mysuru, Kanakapura, Tumakuru, Chikkaballapura and Kolar to address Bengaluru’s congestion problem. He discussed this proposal on Wednesday (10th June) with Manohar Lal Khattar, Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs. He had earlier urged the central government to approve five RRTS lines covering 394 kilometers. The proposed lines included:
- Bengaluru-Bidadi-Mysuru (145 km)
- Bengaluru-Harohalli-Kanakapura (60 km)
- Bengaluru-Nelamangala-Tumakuru (60 km)
- Bengaluru-Kempegowda International Airport-Chikkaballapura (64 km)
- Bengaluru-Hoskote-Kolar (65 km)
PC Mohan, a Member of Parliament from Bengaluru Central wrote on his X account (formerly twitter) that, “Bengaluru could soon get high-speed regional rail connectivity to Mysuru, Kanakapura, Tumakuru, Chikkaballapura and Kolar. The Union Government is ready to support these RRTS corridors, provided the State Government drops its plan to extend Metro services to these cities.”
The Bengaluru RRTS will be modelled around the Delhi-NCR model. The Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor is India’s first semi-high speed rail regional transit corridor, which can attain a speed of 160 km/h and cover the distance of Delhi to Meerut in less than 60 minutes. NCRTC has proposed 8 RRTS lines across the NCR. Planned corridors include connections with Alwar in Rajasthan and Panipat in Haryana.
Debate around RRTS over metro extension
The weekly brief metro & rail professionals read.
The announcement about the Bengaluru-Tumakuru RRTS sparked the debate regarding metro extension to the neighbouring city. Both the metro and RRTS serve different mobility purposes. Metro networks are meant for urban mobility, with stations at shorter distance, frequently running trains and shorter travel routes. Meanwhile, RRTS corridors are designed for longer distance extending for intercity routes, providing top speed upto 180 kmph and have fewer stops.
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Under new leadership of Karnataka CM Sri DK Shivakumar we are confident this is a great gift to our State from Centre.
Beautiful..they first set up and run numerous Auto Dealer channels of theirs or their henchmen and dump vehicles to earn taxes and bribery, kill people all over, then, they build roads and now Rapid Rail network. Did not know there was so much money in Politics
First give that connection inside the city.
19kmph is the average speed inside the city. It takes half an hour to travel 3 kms. Can start with maintaining existing roads and complete existing projects.
While reporting National news atleast, can’t a reporter check and spell place names the right way? It’s multiple mistakes, that too . Either it’s how shoddy a reporter you’re or how apathetic someone is towards different regions of India and their sentiments.
It is good idea to get. RRTS to the mentioned towns instead of Metro.it is right decision taken by the C. M