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Sampige Road- Rajajinagar Green Line service likely to be stalled for a week

  • Enhanced passenger safety: The engineers have installed Anti-derailment devices
  • Metro service on the green line on this route will be affected for a week because of trial runs
Sampige Road Rajajinagar Green Line service likely to be stalled for a week

 

Reaching Malleshwaram from Chickpet or vice-versa was a nightmarish experience for commuters as they had to wait for over 40 minutes in slow moving traffic during peak hours. However, now there is expected to be some respite once the Namma Metro is all set to complete its North to South connectivity.

 

Along with this passenger safety has been a matter of concern with fear of train coaches derailing and in case of the metros going underground, the risks increase because of cramped space and delay in help coming in time.

 

Pradeep Singh Kharola, Managing Director Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited, said the underground Metro Rail is safest and the passengers will never be injured in case the train jumps off the track. The engineers have installed Anti-derailment devices, where a concrete wall has been designed in such a way that if the train derails, it will not hit the tunnel wall. Besides that fire safety and also anti-flooding mechanisms have been put in place.

 

Lauding the efforts of the Metro officials, District In-charge minister KJ George said, the delay in laying the track was attributed to delay in drilling the tunnels by the tunnel boring machine. The machine was expected to reach from KR Market to Majestic in March 2016 but the machine reached only by October end and the concrete work and cabling took more time.

 

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 "It is said, over 1000 metres of cable work has been done inside the tunnel and the workers have put 1,500 truckloads of concrete for making the track. Even during the monsoon, the 80 feet below the ground metro station will not flood and during fire, the fireman just have to get down and switch on the water pipes that are connected all along the stretch," said George.

 

In order to start the service, the metro officials need to do a trial run, the coaches need to be pulled from the existing Rajajinagar to Sampige Road underground and so the metro service on the green line on this route will be affected for a week. To compensate for this, the Metro authorities will put in additional bus service and has asked the BMTC to extend the cooperation.

 

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