Good luck, my friend. I came back from all that 2 years ago, and have no intention to go back! Let me know how it goes , and don't waste your sarcasm (if that's what that was) at me.Zynda wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 5:00 pm^^ Yes sir, perhaps many of us BLR residents should sign up with US Army in hopes of receiving US Citizenship soon enough just like the girl in an article I posted a couple of hours ago did . Then we can experience the drought conditions & heat waves in SoCal, Arizona, Nevada or even Texas (if we chose to end up there) instead of in BLR among 20 million plus souls.
My post was more in the lines of the continual lack of planning exhibited by the collective lords of BLR: BDA, BBMP, BWSSB, etc. I guess I should add BMRCL to the list too at some point, going by their insistence on building side-by-side stations at congested locales instead of stacking them and save real estate, or not integrating stations with alternate modes to transport wherever possible.
Another problem that will come back to bite us later is the design for only 6-car rakes in the Metro, that too using SG (though BLR is not alone in this, unfortunately). This is akin to insisting on only 60 and 80-ft roads in new layouts, which is okay for a small town of a million people, but not even close enough for large 3-4m city, let alone a metro city.
I was in Delhi last month and saw how BG makes a difference in ride comfort. Humongous crowds on the Gurgaon line, yet easily swallowed up by the 8-car BG rake. They have space to add one more coach to make it 9-car. In contrast, my commute this week has been all about relentlessly pushing to get into the coach at MG Road, and all the pax collectively holding our breaths till the door closes . Rinse and repeat all the way to Majestic. Even the relaxation post Majestic will be a thing of the past after the Kengeri extension is complete, so it's only going to get worse. The 6-car rakes arriving later this year will alleviate the situation only for a few years, given the relentless growth the city is experiencing. Hence my reference to 20 million souls - the city planners have not thought in those terms at all, and don't seem to have anything different in the future either.