Sunday, December 12, 2010

[rti4empowerment] Fwd: MMRDA-Public Appeal

 

Dear all,

Looks like MMRDA is well and truly desperate, rattled, and now unsure of their ill planned, ill conceived project.

Because if all is well according to MMRDA's claims, and they have considered everything, then why waste more  public funds and release such pathetic appeals.

Even now MMRDA claims that this overhead metro will relieve commuters travelling in sub human conditions.

Why isn't MMRDA going in for Cyclical Time Table, see below,  for the suburban Railways, which will do the following at no, or low cost.

No need to spend thousands of crores, over head or underground, and save thousands of productive man hours, thousands of crores of damaged infrastructure due to haphazard work as seen on the first mtero and sk walk projects.

MMRDA claims it held public hearings, but did MMRDA hear the public.

No.

The CTT will

01 Increase capacity by one third right away, more than metro running at full capacity ten years hence, and that too, on different routes

02 Increase speed and of trains and thereby reduce travel time, by thirty per cent without any cost of new technology, trains, signalling, communication, etc

03 Increase turn around of trains, making efficient and optimum use of existing numbers of rakes, no need for hundreds more spending thousands of crores, on purchase.

Use the money saved for improving facilities on stations, platforms, pedestrian over bridges and under passes, traffic realignment around stations, etc

Thanqx.

Jagdeep DESAI
Architect

Secretary
Founder Trustee
Forum for Improving Quality of Life in Mumbai Suburbs


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CYCLIC TIME TABLE, A PANACEA FOR CITY'S COMMUTERS. 
 

A. What is that Time Table that has the potential to make travelling safe for all suburban commuters from tomorrow and which is the subject matter of a writ petition before High Court, Mumbai? It is a simple traffic oriented Cyclic Time Table designed in conformity with the principles of time-table construction as laid down under the Rly. Act., & its rules, recommended by the Rly. Board, universally acclaimed by all commuters when tried last on W.rly., and is now satisfactorily in operation on Harbour Line. It has a proven potential to materially change the quality of life of every Mumbaikar. 

Its basic Principles are :-

1) Limited Loading : Commuters of only 3 to 6 Stations will be accommodated on each train as against those of 10 to 20 stations packed at present.

  

2) Uniform Frequency : All services for all sectors shall be available at uniform

intervals of 12" as against uneven frequency of services available at present,

resulting in waste of capacity when too close and humanly unbearable overcrowding when spaced too afar.

                                     

3) Dedicated services : As against Khichdi trains run now packing commuters of 2 to

3 sectors on one train, all services shall be dedicated to commuters of only one

sector at one time.

         B. Below please find one specimen pattern of Cyclic Time Table, one each for Fast & Slow Corridors of W. Rly.

SPECIMEN PATTERN

CYCLIC TIME TABLE- FOR W.RLY.

12 MINUTE CYCLES

                              FAST CORRIDOR                                SLOW CORRIDOR

                                     DOWN                                                    DOWN

DESTINATION VR BVIGMN MAIL/ADH BVI ADHBA/VR
HOW RUN SUPER FASTSUPER FAST SUPER FAST EXP

PATH

SLOWSLOW SLOW SHUTTLE
CHURCHAGATE

=============

17.00

S

17.03

S

17.06

S

  17.00

S

17.03

S

17.06

S

 
MUMBAI CENTRAL

=============

DADAR

17.10

F 

17.17

F

17.13

F 

17.20

F

17.16

F 

17.23

F

M/E 
 
17.10

S 

17.22

S

17.13

S 

17.25

S

17.16

S 

17.28

S

 
 
 
 
======
BANDRA17.23 17.26 17.29M/E 17.30 17.3317.36 17.39
 
ANDHERI
F

F

F

F

F

17.37

S

 
M/E
S

17.45

====

S

17.46

S

17.51

====

S

17.52

GOREGAON 

MALAD 

BORIVALI

F 

F 

F

F 

17.40

S

17.50

=====

17.46

=====

 
 
 
 
M/E
  S

=====

S

18.08

  S

S 

S

S

DASHISAR 

VIRAR

17.44

S

18.14

====

  
 
 
 
 
 
M/E
     S

S

18.48

====

*F= Fast Between Stations, S = Stopping at stations, Total Rakes required : 68. 

Salient Features :

  1. Above cycles of slow & fast services shall keep repeating every 12 mts.
 
  1. Consequently, all services to all sectors shall be available at uniform intervals of 12mts, with 3 services for BVI Sector, two each for VR and ADH sectors, and one suburban shuttle every 12mts.
 
  1. All services shall be loaded with restricted no. of commuters of only one sector, of only 6 stations on Virar, 5 on BVI slow, 4 on Andheri & 3 each on BVI & GMN Fast services, making commuting safe for all at all times of the day from day one of introduction of such a scientific traffic-oriented Time Table.
  1. 20 to 25% saving in travel time for long distance commuters of BVI & VR

           sectors (ADH to VR), through 40% Superfast trains as against only 25%

           so called fast trains now plied.  

     (e) Direct services, without any changeover at any in between station, for all

         commuters between CCG & VR as against gruesome change overs now

         unavoidable for over 1/3rd suburban commuters.  

   (f) 30% more services with the same no. of rakes, due to Superfast and

          dedicated services, giving higher turn rounds per rake, giving totally 1400

          services per day as against only about 1100 run now. 

    (g) Clock-like punctuality as experienced now on Harbour Line where such a

         Cyclic Time- Table is in operation at present due to elimination of diamond

          crossings of tracks from slow to fast & fast to slow as required under the

          present Time Table, root cause of delays of most trains now from 5 to15mts

          through out the day. 

What a tragedy for Mumbai's  millions of commuters that even after paying through nose safety surcharge of over Rs.2000Crores since about a decade, inspite guadruplication of tracks, and inspite large no. of additional new rakes received,  safety remains as illusive as ever and they have to travel in subhuman conditions. Believe it or not, with recently upgraded infrastructure and augmented rolling stock, W.Rly's. potential to improve its services is so much that it can give to the city a world class Sub. rail system from tomorrow. W.Rly at its Suburban Rail Users Consultative Committee Meeting on 29.06.2006 even agreed to introduce principles of such a Cyclic Time Table in terms of High Court orders yet for 3 years it is not implementing it. It must be stated that where there is no will, there is no way. That is precisely the reason why High Court is seized of it. 

Yours faithfully, 

(DIPAK J. GANDHI)

CHAIRMAN) 


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