Madurai City - Transport (Road & Rail) Projects

[madurakarenda]

Similarly, Melur MLA Mr. Saami also asking for his constituency in assembly to health care minister :

http://www.thinaboomi.com/2012/04/22/12136.html

[madurakarenda]

TN Highways and minor ports policies released :

http://www.tn.gov.in/policynotes/pdf/highways.pdf

Madurai district has got two more ROBs sanctioned it seems. Anyways we have to wait to know their location.

[madurakarenda]

A upgradation of a single laned road into two laned road project is going on in Thumbaipatti to a place called Jayamkondan Nilai it seems. I know the Thumbaipatti location. Where is Jayamkondan Nilai?

Anyways, tender document is here : http://2.imimg.com/data2/GY/KF/HTT-2...-16_672442.pdf

Project cost is Rs. 4 Crores from the document in this link : http://www.tn.gov.in/policynotes/pdf/highways.pdf

[Madurai gilli]

The much-hyped train was announced in the 2011-12 budget

The adage “Old wine in a new bottle” will be apt to describe the much-hyped Duronto AC Express between Secunderabad and Visakhapatnam, the launch of which has been delayed by more than a year.

The rake of the decades-old Rajadhani Express has been sent to the Lallaguda workshop for a major overhaul and vinyl-wrapping to give it a ‘Duronto look', according to reliable sources. Even this may take about a month by which time the summer heat may subside.

It may be recalled that the Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam Duronto was announced in the 2011-12 budget by the then Railway Minister Mamata Bannerjee. The launch has been delayed for want of a dedicated rake. The present Rajdhani rake allotted to the Duronto, made by Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Perambur, was in service for more than 20 years.

The Railways had suddenly decided to replace all Rajdhani rake with the LHB rake. The LHB rake, procured for Durontos, are coming in handy for this purpose.

There are around 30 Duronto Expresses running at present. Some of them are Day/Intercity type (below 700 km) Durontos and Sleeper Class Durontos, which are running mostly with conventional coaches. Many of the ICF conventional Durontos got new rakes. Almost all the AC Durontos are running with LHB rake only. All long distance AC Duronto (11 of them), except Lokmaya Tilak Terminus-Allahabad and Pune-Nizamuddin, are running with LHB coaches only.

Now Secunderabad -Visakhapatnam, Chennai-Madurai and Chennai-Trivandrum, all AC Durontos, will get old Rajadhani rake.

The Secunderabad-Vskp Duronto will be the third Duronto of SCR. The other two Secunderabad-LTT and Secundrabad-Nizamuddin have brand new LHB rake. One fails to understand why Visakhapatnam should be given old Rajdhani rake. New ICF rake can be allotted pending allotment of LHB rake, feel railway activists from the city, who have been closely monitoring the developments.

Why LHB rake?

One may wonder why so much fuss over LHB rake. The Linke Holfmann Bush (LHB) coaches are manufactured with German technology. LHB coaches, costing Rs.1.5 crore to Rs.2 crore each, are superior to conventional coaches and can run at maximum speed ranging between 160 and 200 km/ph. They are anti-telescopic and cannot turn turtle in the event of any derailment or collision.

LHB coaches have an improved suspension system and offer superior comfort. LHB coaches are fitted with microprocessor controlled high capacity air conditioning system, which gives passengers better comfort during summer and winter season. These coaches have capacity to accommodate about 72 passengers in each AC-3 coach as against 64 passengers in other AC-3 conventional coach.

The noise level of LHB coaches is hardly 60 decibels while it is around 100 decibels in conventional coaches. The disc brake system of LHB coaches is superior to that of conventionally used thread brake system.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle3348367.ece

[deepu051993]

This is a well known one. The Bangalore Rajdhani got new LHB rakes and the old one of it is sent to chennai and visag as specials, for these services.

[madurakarenda]

Plea to give electricity to the High Mast lights in the four laned road and new road lights in solar energy in Kottampatti, Melur and Munikovil by Melur MLA Saami :

http://www.dailythanthi.com/article....25/2012&advt=2

[madurakarenda]

Saw this erstwhile Madurai to Nellai BPR guy (TN58 N1840) doing 23F route in Madurai. Seats not converted yet. Depot information showed Nagar depot.



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Rear profile of the same guy :



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[dhandapanik]

This may not get converted soon and not required too. There are many such buses like this. This guy should be <2 yrs old. So they are keeping it as Spare bus. You cannot see this guy running in city bus routed during festival season and this will be operated as SPL bus.

[madurakarenda]

Originally Posted by dhandapanik

This may not get converted soon and not required too. There are many such buses like this. This guy should be <2 yrs old. So they are keeping it as Spare bus. You cannot see this guy running in city bus routed during festival season and this will be operated as SPL bus.

Oh, any details on the number of guys like this (means who are deployed as spare buses)? Are they using it in a rotational fashion (i.e deploying in Nellai to Madurai BPR route occasionally)?

[dhandapanik]

Originally Posted by madurakarenda

Oh, any details on the number of guys like this (means who are deployed as spare buses)? Are they using it in a rotational fashion (i.e deploying in Nellai to Madurai BPR route occasionally)?

184X BPRs are used like this, then 1671, 1672 TML buses are also rotated like this. Then we have 1498, 1499 for rotation. Some of the Usilai depot, T.Kallupatti depot, Sipcot and Pudhukulam depot buses with 3X2 seating arrangements are also used for rotations.

Pudhukulam and Sipcot depot located very closely to MIBT are mainly used for Intercity bus operations. At times we can see them operating city buses with their 3X2 buses.

[madurakarenda]

Good information!! Thanks Dhandapani. Do you have pics of a dark green colored KSRTC guy around 5 p.m in Tallakulam? He was of a old city bus shape body with great maintenance that it looked like a fresh painted livery.

[dhandapanik]

Originally Posted by madurakarenda

Good information!! Thanks Dhandapani. Do you have pics of a dark green colored KSRTC guy around 5 p.m in Tallakulam? He was of a old city bus shape body with great maintenance that it looked like a fresh painted livery.

Do you mean Kerala or Ka SRTC? If it is kerala then you could have spotted Kannur Super Express going via Palani, Pollachi, Palakkad.

[madurakarenda]

Originally Posted by dhandapanik

Do you mean Kerala or Ka SRTC? If it is kerala then you could have spotted Kannur Super Express going via Palani, Pollachi, Palakkad.

Oh, thanks for the information Dhandapani. Any pics?

Not sure whether it was a Kerala or Karnataka bus since it was heavy traffic there. Anyways I will try to see that guy again in the coming days.

[dhandapanik]

Originally Posted by madurakarenda

Oh, thanks for the information Dhandapani. Any pics?

Not sure whether it was a Kerala or Karnataka bus since it was heavy traffic there. Anyways I will try to see that guy again in the coming days.

You might have seen this guy..

Link

[madurakarenda]

Originally Posted by dhandapanik

You might have seen this guy..

Link

Thanks Dhandapani. Exactly this kind of guy.

I found that some JnNURM Blue color Marco guys undergone paint job. They had painted over stickers showing JnNURM

[riyas]

The Civil Aviation Ministry recently approved Madurai-Colombo-Madurai flight to be operated by the Spicejet.

This was informed by Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh to Virudhunagar MP Manicka Tagore on Wednesday when the latter called on him.

The notification for setting up a “customs desk” at the Madurai airport was cleared recently by the Finance Ministry, Mr. Tagore told The Hindu.

With this Tamil Nadu will have the third airport to have international flight operations.

Presently the Spicejet, Air India, Jet Airways are operating flights from Madurai to Delhi, Mumbai (both via. Chennai), Chennai and Hyderabad and Kingfisher Airlines was operating to Bangalore till a few weeks ago

The Rs.129 crore 1.89 lakh sq.ft. new integrated airport terminal in the temple town was inaugurated on September 12, 2010.

The airport has been in operation since 1956.

[arun3031]

SpiceJet would soon start international flights connecting Madurai and Colombo. Found the info from the below link

http://www.ndtv.com/article/south/ma...colombo-202394

[mduvignesh]

Originally Posted by madurakarenda

Thanks Dhandapani. Exactly this kind of guy.

I found that some JnNURM Blue color Marco guys undergone paint job. They had painted over stickers showing JnNURM

This from KeSRTC. And I have not seen any green color livery in KaSRTC.

[dhandapanik]

Originally Posted by mduvignesh

This from KeSRTC. And I have not seen any green color livery in KaSRTC.

+1. We have two greenies i.e., two Super Express running from Madurai.
1. Madurai-Kannur via Palani, Pollachi
2. Madurai-Tiruvalla via Theni, Kottayam.

[madurakarenda]

It has been planned to construct Multi-functional Complexes (MFCs) at 198 Railway Stations. MFCs aim to provide to rail users facilities like shopping, food stalls/restaurants, book stalls, PCO booths, ATMs, medicine and variety stores, budget hotels, parking facilities etc.

Budget hotels planned at 24 stations are; 1. Alipurduar Junction, 2. Allahabad, 3. Darjeeling, 4. Digha, 5. Guntur, 6. Gwalior, 7. Haldia, 8. Haridwar, 9. Hubli, 10. Indore, 11. Jabalpur, 12. Jammu Tawi, 13. Jodhpur, 14. Kannur, 15. Kozikkode, 16. Kurukshetra, 17. Madurai Junction, 18. New Alipore, 19. Raipur, 20. Rameswaram, 21. Siliguri, 22. Tiruchchirapalli, 23. Udaipur and 24. Visakhapatnam) as a part of MFCs undertaken by M/s IRCON International Ltd. and M/s RITES Ltd.

Required land is generally available for the purpose. In addition, budget hotels may also come up as a part of MFCs through Private sector participation at other locations subject to their commercial viability.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways, Shri K. H. Muniyappa in reply to a written question in Lok Sabha today.


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