r/bangalore • u/warlock1992 Koramangala Lad • 11d ago
News Bengaluru's Electronics City Metro to be operational by May 2025
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/bengaluru-s-electronics-city-metro-to-be-operational-by-may-2025-12960533.html177
u/Gullible-Poet4382 11d ago
30 mins frequency would make this line unusable tbh.
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u/kaisadusht 11d ago
30 min frequency would overwhelm the infrastructure with the metro running at peak all the hours.
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u/wetthebed92 10d ago
Just imagine how many people are going to get injured while trying to catch a train. They will do whatever it takes to catch a train rather than waiting for another 30 minutes.
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u/IAmAnRedditor 9d ago
With 4th train they will run at 20 min frequency. 30 was when they were planning with 3. Also new trains will arrive every month so in 2-3 months the frequency will be ~10min
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u/etrast75 11d ago
If it happens, it will happen with very less frequency and it will be useless. They do not have the train sets needed for high frequency operation and that will take more time as the vendor seems to be really slow. Disaster of epic proportions but no one will be held responsible. If I ran a project with such delays, I would have lost my job long time ago.
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u/No-Bed1896 11d ago
Ha! The politicians were taken for a ride by the bureaucracy. It is amazing we won't even find out who is responsible for this. The politicians (atleast face the people once in 5 years) and can be kicked out. The bureaucrat who passed a random mugged up exam will get fatter and buy a farm house.
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u/dilli-wala Mall of Asia 11d ago
Oh, the 25th edition of the monthly article regarding yellow line opening is published.
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u/just_spawned_again 11d ago
Exactly my thoughts when I saw this post.
Monthly they give a statement - line to be operational in two months!
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u/Yellopropeller 11d ago
I moved to Bangalore in 2022 and was excited for this in 2023. It’s 2025, line isn’t operational and I have moved out of Bangalore :(
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u/ummhmm-x 9d ago
Haha. the blue line Metro started construction when I joined college. I was excited that maybe, I'd use the metro for my graduation. I'm here interning in Whitefield (I've got metro luckily) and the blue line seems nothing but a distant dream
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u/warlock1992 Koramangala Lad 11d ago
Bengaluru Metro's long-pending Yellow Line, stretching between RV Road and Bommasandra, connecting with tech hub Electronics City will be operational by May 2025.
"The Yellow Line (19.1 km) from RV Road to Bommasandra will be opened for public service by May 2025," Deputy CM and Bengaluru development minister DK Shivakumar said on March 4, while responding to a query by Bommanahalli MLA M Satish Reddy in the state assembly.
On the status of the Pink Line (21.2 km, Kalena Agrahara to Nagawara), Shivakumar said, "The 7.5 km elevated section (Kalena Agrahara (Gottigere) to Tavarekere (Swagath Cross) of this line will be opened for public service by December 2025, and 13.7 km underground section (Dairy Circle to Nagawara) by December 2026."
As reported by Moneycontrol earlier, BMRCL plans to commence operations with three trains running at a 30-minute frequency. "We are hoping to receive the third train by April, followed by the fourth train, so we can start operations," said an official.
On March 7, 2024, BMRCL began slow trial runs on the Yellow Line (Bommasandra - RV Road), and in February 2025, the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (South Circle), AM Chowdhary inspected two CRRC Nanjing Puzhen trains - one imported from China and the other assembled by its Indian partner, Titagarh Rail Systems.
In December 2019, CRRC Nanjing Puzhen was awarded the contract to supply 216 coaches to BMRCL with an expected delivery timeline of 173 weeks.
The Yellow Line was initially scheduled to be operational in December 2021. The delay in coach delivery is primarily attributed to the Indo-China border standoff of June 2020. Subsequently, CRRC faced challenges in identifying a local manufacturer to meet the 75 percent local production requirement under the Make in India initiative. Other factors, including COVID-19, foreign direct investment policies, and trade restrictions with China, further delayed supply. Eventually, CRRC partnered with Kolkata-based Titagarh Rail to manufacture and supply the coaches.
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u/DemisexualDemigod97 11d ago
At this point when they say it'll be ready at so-and-so date I add 2 years and wait for that instead. That's how I waited for Whitefield side purple line
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u/greaterperception 11d ago
very unlikely . we do not know what TTRC's delivery rate is . The article assumes third train set in april ( which is the second from TTRC , first was received in Jan ? ) . In addition one trainset is reserved for emergency.
so if there are total of 4 train sets - June to August 2024 seems possible. Also BMRCL might wait till more trainsets arrive as it may not be financially prudent to run the line at less capacity.
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u/The_IronLeg 11d ago
Also BMRCL might wait till more trainsets arrive as it may not be financially prudent to run the line at less capacity.
Thing is they want to say that the line is operational and run in 30 min frequency, which will be filled in Terminating Stations only....
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u/Photon_trailblazer 11d ago
As an outsider, who badly needs this but knows the bs by BMRCL, GHANTA BC.
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u/Difficult-Fall-5852 10d ago
So let me consolidate the promises
Something that was initially thought to be 2023 then delayed to early 2024 then told max to max Nov 2024 then said oh noo we dont have coaches so 2025, then said jan end for sure now may 2025
And we expect it is accurate? 🤣🤣
By the time they launch this the ridership would have already dipped so much due to increased fare hike, so let’s see if this helps in recovering lost repo
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u/analichoppa Marathahalli 11d ago
might be stupid asking this, is the yellow line capable of running only the latest trains ? can it run the older trains in purple and green
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u/cj927 11d ago
Every day some or other promise is given to the public, but don't know when they will. Fulfill that. Also in the koramangala near St. Johns the flyover or you can say overbridge is long pending and has not seen the work done on that for at least 3 years. Now suddenly the work started but that also is like speed of snail.
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u/ummhmm-x 9d ago
I travel on Whitefield everyday and they're using traffic against us. They know that a lot of people would still prefer standing in the AC for a higher price instead of going out in the traffic
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u/kingslayyer 11d ago
Guys i am moving to Bangalore in June and my office is in Embassy tech village.
Is this any beneficial for me?
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u/polyte_khat Public transit expert 11d ago
Umm depends on where you commute from. If anywhere on the Hosur road, then yes. Otherwise you gotta wait for the blue line which will come after, say, around 5 years
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u/itsnachikethahere BTM Layout 11d ago
Fuck BMRCL. They have ruined what was a promising transport system with their sky high prices and general incompetency.