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3.4.4 Club-pyramid Project

There are proposals to use the right-of-ways adjacent to large storm-water drain systems, and the air-space over such drains, to create elevated new bus corridors that can benefit the commuting public, including the urban poor, in an affordable and non-congesting manner. These elevated bus lanes would open new corridors, and thereby bypass the constraints of road widths on existing corridors. The costing and feasibility for this project shall be done after the CTTS for Bangalore is completed.

3.4.5 Inter-modal Interchanges

Two inter-modal interchanges are planned to be developed on a PPP basis. The first such interchange is already under bid – the Kempe Gowda bus terminus at Subhashnagar is proposed to be converted into an interchange that accommodates the BMTC, KSRTC, BMRC, and a “city center” complex. The second interchange is proposed at Byappanahalli, which will have the BMTC, KSRTC, Railways, BMRC, and the Airport Rail Link.

3.5 B-TRAC 2010

Bangalore City Police have envisaged the Bangalore Traffic Improvement Program (B-TRAC 2010), with an estimated cost of about Rs. 350 Crore, and for the financial year 2006-07, the Government has set apart Rs. 44 Crore. The objectives of B-TRAC 2010 would be two-fold:

¤ Operational Objectives:

o Reduce traffic congestion by 30% in the central area of Bangalore City;

o Reduce accidents by 30% in the city of Bangalore;

o Achieve significant reduction in pollution;

o Achieve substantial compliance of Traffic Laws and Rules; and o Set up an effective Trauma Care System.

¤ Institutional Objectives:

o Coordinated traffic management by developing mechanisms for the same, like institutionalizing Traffic Task Force, Road Safety Committee, Traffic Action Committee, etc;

o Robust revenue model (traffic funds to pay for traffic management infrastructure and maintenance);

o Legal and Institutional reforms;

o Capacity Building (modernizing and upgrading of Traffic Training Institute etc.); and

o Strengthening of the traffic police force by augmenting officers and staff, provision of civil and communication infrastructure.

¤ Benefits

o Traffic congestion will be reduced by 30% in the Central Area of Bangalore City;

o Accidents will be reduced by 30%;

o There will be significant reduction in pollution;

o Substantial compliance of Traffic Laws and Rules will be achieved o Effective Trauma Care System will be set up;

o Coordinated traffic management will be achieved;

o Level of traffic and road safety awareness will be enhanced; and o State of the art traffic policing and regulation will lead to substantial

compliance.

Table 64 shows the estimated costs for B-TRAC activities over the years.

Table 64: Cost Phasing for B-TRAC

Component 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 Total Cost (Rs.

Crore) Junction

Improvement

2.00 7.00 7.00 7.00 7.00 30.00

Street Furniture and Road

Marking

5 23.75 23.75 23.75 23.75 100

Intelligent

30.00 30.00 30.00 30.00 30.00 150.00

Surveillance / Monitoring and

enforcement cameras etc

5.00 11.25 11.25 11.25 11.25 50.00

Education, Publicity and Training / Others

2.00 4.50 4.50 4.50 4.50 20.00

TOTAL 44.00 76.50 76.50 76.50 76.50 350.00

3.6 Airport Rail Link

The Airport Rail Link (ARL) project envisages commencement of dedicated high-speed airport rail service between the city and the new international airport. The project is proposed to be developed under a public private partnership framework with Infrastructure Development Department (IDD) of GoK being the nodal agency.

The ARL shall link the Bangalore International Airport to Bangalore city at Byappanahalli, by rail. The project also proposes to have check-in facility at the

railway station itself for the air passengers. The preliminary studies for the project have been completed, and the preparation of detailed project reports is underway.

The airport rail link is proposed to be constructed during the period 2007-12 at an estimated capital expenditure of Rs. 600 Crore. The land requirement for the project is approximately 78 hectares, which has been assumed to be acquired at a cost of Rs. 0.8 Crore per hectare. The rolling stock comprises 18 wagons at a cost of Rs. 7 Crore per wagon.

3.7 Development of Commuter Railway System

The CRS project is been viewed as an option in improving the City infrastructure and reducing road congestion. The process comprises of integrating the commuter rail project providing connectivity on existing surface railway lines in Bangalore with the proposed metro rail project. The commuter rail project envisages providing a mass urban transportation system along the existing railway lines covering 62 km on the north-south and east-west axis of the City — from Kengeri to Bangalore City Railway Station, to Yeshwantpur, and Whitefield via Cantonment and Yeshwantpur to Byappanahalli via Hebbal.

The project is proposed to be developed in two equal phases spanning over the implementation periods of 2007-2012 and 2013-2017. The estimated capital expenditure for the total project is Rs. 650 Crore, with Rs. 325 Crore being incurred in each block. The land requirement for the project is approximately 62 hectares, which has been assumed to be acquired at a cost of Rs. 3.2 Crore per hectare. The rolling stock comprises 26 wagons at a cost of Rs. 10 Crore per wagon.

3.8 Bangalore Metro Rail

The Metro-Rail Project is proposed as a mass transport system to decongest the traffic in the City roads. Planning commission of India has accorded its “In-principle” approval in February 2004. The Karnataka State Cabinet approved the project on 03-03-2005 and gave its go-ahead to land acquisition, preliminary works like short listing of vendors/contractors and identification and shifting of utilities.

The Project Investment Board has (PIB), and the Cabinet Committee in Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the project, and the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has accorded its approval for debt finance to the project. The implementation period will be 5 years.

The metro system is configured on two busy corridors of the City-East-West and North-South on similar lines as the Delhi Metro Railway. The East-West corridor is to start at Byappanahalli and end at Mysore Road/Ring Road junction, a total length of 18.1 km. The North-South corridor is to start form Yeshwantapur in the North and extend up to JP Nagar in the South, a total length of 14.9 km. The two lines would be crossing each other at Majestic, close to the City Railway station, where a rake interchange line connecting the two corridors is proposed. Figure 19 shows the map of the proposed metro system.

The Project highlights are:

¤ North-South Corridor - 18.40 km

Based on the construction cost estimates provided in the DPR, the completed cost of the Project is estimated at Rs. 5,605 Crore. However, since the financing for this project is by a different means, and has been tied up, the CIP does not include this project.

3.9 Other Road/Transport Related Projects

There are other projects in the sector, that are smaller but critical, and these include:

¤ Construction and rehabilitation of footpaths and medians;

¤ Construction of subways, skywalks;

¤ Development of pedestrian/ cycling zones;

¤ Rehabilitation and installation of street lights;

¤ Multistoried car parking facilities;

¤ Improvement of junctions and traffic management systems;

¤ Asphalting of 1,500 km of internal roads; and

¤ Construction of flyovers and grade separators.

The projected investments for these projects have been estimated on benchmark costs by the concerned agencies, and indicated in the CIP.