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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 | BVI | GMN | MAIL/ | ADH | BVI | ADH | BA/VR |
HOW RUN | SUPER FAST | SUPER FAST | SUPER FAST | EXP PATH | SLOW | SLOW | 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 | ====== |
BANDRA | 17.23 | 17.26 | 17.29 | M/E | 17.30 | 17.33 | 17.36 | 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 :
- Above cycles of slow & fast services shall keep repeating every 12 mts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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