OT: Public Hearing on Metro

All those who are available on 26 July 2008, Attend and Extend your support to the cause. Spread the Word.

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Dear all,

It has been decided to hold a Public Hearing on Hyderabad Metro rail project.

Date: Saturday, 26 July 2008

Time: 10.30 to 13.30 hrs

Venue: Sundarayya Vignana Kendram, Baghlingampally, ( very close to Sundarayya park )

This is to request you all to block the date, spread the word around and help in mobilizing larger numbers.

Best regards,

Dr. C. Ramachandraiah

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Thanks

Ananth

Email me at : scr.mmts@gmail.com for any clarifications.

Birthday celebrations for MMTS

Hi All,

Please post your ideas for the birthday celebrations of MMTS,

started on August 9 2003.

Regards,

ananth

Talking Points

Hi All,

It has been some time since I posted anything. Now, here is something that our regular visitors can contribute. The regular views are good and comments are most welcome.

Talking points:

1. MMTS Phase II

2. Route passes from Hitec City ( Mishra ji !! )

3. Security issues for ladies in the Ladies compartments

4. Extension of MMTS on SC- KZJ mainline upto bibinagar(?)

5. Timings : They may change from July 1, 2008. Any inputs on the current/future timings for the services

Please post your views on these topics and any others that you may have in mind as comments to this post.

All your suggestions will help shape the agenda for the next meeting with the officials.

More Services from 16/04/08

Today SC Rly Announced 3 more MMTS Servics from April 16th.

Timings of these services are as follows:

* SH - Starts at Sec’bad @ 6.20 PM and reaches Hyd’bad (Nampally) @ 6.50PM

* HL - Starts at Hyd’bad @ 7.15 PM and reaches Lingampally @ 8.00

* LH - Starts at Lingampally @ 8.30 PM and reaches Sec’bad @ 9.15 PM

Courtesy : LV Satish K , MMTS Travellers

Feeder buses at Hitec City Station

RTC buses increased w.e.f Monday 24 March 2008

Update on RTC buses:

Excerpts from emails to MMTS Travellers:

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From: Suresh_Reddy

Subject: RE: Update on RTC Services.

Dear All,

News is good but only for few people. I asked them to consider Satyam employees who are around 500 in number working in 3 diff offices in Hitec City. I will check if they are operating buses which I proposed as per the attachment. Route No.3 is very important and they have to consider.

Thank You.

Regards

SURESH REDDY BANDI

IMS - Network & Systems

Satyam Info City

HYDERABAD - 500 081.

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Hi,

News from RTC. RTC has increased the number of services from 12 to 64.

JNTU to VBIT Bus No 194H

1 bus for every half an hour from JNTU to VBIT.

 

The first bus starts @ 5.40 AM from JNTU and

the last Bus is at 8.00 PM.

 

The first bus starts @ 6.15 AM from VBIT and

the last Bus is at 8.35 PM.

These services are with effect from Monday i.e., 24th March 2008 onwards.

VBIT to Hi-tech City Station

From Morning 8.00 AM to 11.30 AM and Evening 4.00 PM to 7.00 PM for all the connecting trains.

Sources: A Venkateswara Rao. Secunderabad RTC Regional Manager.

S. Nagaraju, Hyderabad RTC Regional Manager.

Mallesh. Reporter Andhra Jyothi.

Special Thanks to the RTC Staff & Mallesh.

Feeders and one way traffic at Hitec City

Here is the email from vijay  about the possibility of difficulty in feeder services at hitec-city  due to implementation of one way traffic.

Regards,

ananth

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Hi,

As you are all aware, there is going to be one way traffic being implemented from tomorrow around cyberabad area. As a result of that, it will be not be possible for feeder services to come to HiTec City station tomorrow after 8 AM.

We have made a representation to the DCP reg. this, since most of the commuters travel between 8.45 and 10.30 AM and they need pick up services during that time.

Probably tomorrow, you might find it difficult to get the feeder services.

We will be meeting the DCP tomorrow reg. this to work out a solution to allow company cabs and RTC buses to ply upto HiTec City station.

Probably from Thursday, we could see some change in the stance of the police reg. this one way.  I will keep you posted on this.

Thanks

Vijay K

Telecast on CNN-IBN: MMTS Story @ 16 Feb 2130

The MMTS Story (that we shot few weeks before) will be telecast tomorrow – 16 Feb 2008 - @ 9.30 PM on CNN-IBN.

Regards,

Ananth

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Courtesy Vijay from MMTS Travellers

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Updated timings wef 1st Feb 2008

Hi,

An excel sheet with updated timings wef 01-02-2008 is now available  at yahoo groups.  For those who have no access to the group, email me at scr.mmts@gmail.com for a copy.

Regards,

Ananth

Verbal Altercation with drivers

Please avoid  altercation with drivers.  The  higher ups are responsible for the delays. Here is the email from Arun Padmanabhan from MMTS Travellers describing today’s incident. This post  was made possible due to him.

Regards,

ananth

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Hi All

Though there has been a whole-hearted efforts from this group to facilitate in improving the MMTS services, it has been observed (of late) that the morning trains from falaknuma towards Lingampally are consistantly running late.

Today was a scene of outburst of commuter’s anger and frustration at Sec-Bad railway station - when the 8 04am train towards Lingampally was stranded on the 6A platform for more than 1/2 an hour. The result : roughing - up the driver verbally for misbehaving and not inquiring with station master on the reason for delay upon commuter’s request.

The point I would like to stress-upon here is that we have no infrastructure available in place for MMTS (a dedicated MMTS line) and that addition of more train services are going to add to our woes. The solution at moment and the need of the hour is to increase the rakes (probably to 9 or 12 rakes per train) and to strive to maintain the existing train services on time.

Moreover, a issue to be taken up with SCR is that MMTS trains get least priority over express/passenger trains (as could be witnessed in case of 8 04am train today). We need to stress upon getting MMTS services- the top priority.

Finally, a issue on annoucements informing about the delay and arrival of trains on platforms. With communication so advanced today, I still dont understand the reason for not keeping the commuters informed about the possible delay of train services/re-schedule of arrival platforms (through announcements as well as visual displays). There is a need for more visual displays on 6 and 7 platforms which shall provide a means of communicating the possible delays.

If SCR does not act soon, the day is not far when we shall witness commuter’s frustrations being turned into violent actions.

Arun Padmanabhan

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