Sir,
The recent introduction of a new Jan Shatabdi Express to Shivamogga Town from Yeswantpur is a welcome move. Train number 12089/12090 serves as an ideal 4-hour connectivity between the towns.
The train departs now 6 days a week, from Shivamogga Town at 5.30 am to arrive at 10 am in Yeswantpur and return to Shivamogga by 10.25 pm upon departing from Yeswantpur at 5.30 pm.
Since the existing single rake of Jan Shatabdi Express lies idle between 10 am and 5.30 pm at Yeswantpur, further consideration to extend the train up to Mysuru will help ensure optimum utilisation of the idle rake. This will also help fulfil the ever-increasing high demand and patronage for an additional daily train connectivity to Mysuru especially in the afternoon.
As Bengaluru-Mysuru Railway line is now successfully electrified and doubled, the need for additional connectivity by making use of idle rakes (with minimal turnaround time for rake maintenance like Jan Shatabdi Express), will rightly justify the need and meet the demand of passengers.
The Railway authorities concerned are requested to urgently examine this suggestion. Further if the terminal constraints at Mysuru permits, the suggestion to extend the train up to Ashokapuram may also be considered.
– Varun, Bengaluru, 10.3.2019
Hunsur and Gokulam road intersection (Near B.M Hospital) is one of the precarious and nightmarish junction in Mysore. Drivers either believe that “might is right” or feels that “to budge” is not their cup of tea. The vrooming vehicles on either side makes life difficult for those who either want to enter the motor-way from Gokulam road or take a detour from the motor-way, towards Gokulam road. It is not only dangerous, but a nightmarish experience for pedestrians who would want to cross the road, either way. Adding to the melee are the unwarranted bus stops at undesignated locations where vehicle turnings are imminent. The fleet of share cabs, who ferry passengers more than what their vehicle can actually carry, are a mafia by themselves. Dare not to point anything at them. You say…and…..you had it…….they would immediately resort to bringing scores of their ilk, to use all sorts of unparlimentary words to defame and embarrass you in public, despite the fact that they stop at middle of the road causing ample commotion to the trailing traffic. The traffic police stationed there is helpless as akin to the pedestrian. Ideally the traffic police is required to be in the center of the intersection, paving disciplined movement of the in and out-flow of vehicles, but dares not to be in the middle of the intersection fearing the amount of traffic violation. The mountain sized speed breakers has no respite and vehicles either jump on them or pass through the smallest passage avoiding the speed breaker. Pedestrians can consider it as an achievement, if they successfully cross the road or come home un-hurt (either by traffic or by denigrating words). The only resolve to this problem is to install a traffic signal. Again, the traffic signals installed at various locations in the same Hunsur road towards railway station are confusion by itself. If one bystander has a detailed look at these signals, they would easily get confused since green and the red light are “ON” at the same time. Vehicle drivers are even more perplexed looking at this spectacle and indirectly gets subjected to continuous honking and name calling from the trailing vehicle, whose driver thinks that his precious time has been lost, due to the law abiding vehicle owner stopping the vehicle, in front.
The traffic moving from Hunsur road to Gokulam road & Gokulam road to Hunsur road (towards Hunsur) should have a separate earmarked signal to permit them to move only on turns whilst the ones who are already on Hunsur road shall have a separate signal in turns.
Will the MCC or concerned authorities take it on war footing, before some precious life is lost due to traffic violations? Or will the MCC pass the buck? Time is the healer, whilst the saga of the pedestrians who are scared to cross the very road they dwell, continues.