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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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
Please do not tresspass and stop other passengers from doing so. The deep impact of runovers on the mental health of motormen is reason enough not to indulge in this practice.
The letter from Laxman, reproduced below indicates the myriad feelings experienced by aghast onlookers.
Nobody deserves to undergo the trauma of watching another human die for no good reason, certainly not the motormen!!
Regards,
ananth
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This is one stupid thing people do, cross the tracks when FOB’s are
present. It happens every day at Necklace Road in the morning when the
Falknuma hyderabad local arrives and people crazily go and stand near
the platform edge and to cross over to the other side, the line has
many movements at that time and the crossing point is on a blind curve
where trains come in at 50 kmph plus. When will people realize how
dangerous it is to do this, do we need a few run overs for people to
get some sense. I have seen it happen at Hitech city as well. Please
educate people when you travel in MMTS Trains about this danger of
line crossing. Sad part is even ladies do it quite often even the
educated lot.
Lakshman
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http://www.petitiononline.com/mmts4hyd/petition.html
Sign this petition !!
Help us make Hyderabad a better place to live !!
I travelled by the 9:36 FL MMTS local last friday from MXT to SC. I noticed something that I was curious to ask a better informed railfan.
At Jamai Osmania, the driver went past the sign that read “EMU drivers stop here” and stopped further ahead such that the first door in the first coach crossed this board.
Does anyone know if this is permissible? The local was terribly late. The time must have been around 22:40 at Jamai Osmania.
Personally, I think that breaking a rule such as this may be a recipe for disasters… Comments, brickbats and compliments welcome.
Until next time,
Ananth
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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As has been reported, there have been regular delays for the past few weeks in this section for MMTS trains.
Upon Enquiry at MXT ( Malakpet ), I found out that pf # 1 in KCG has been rendered unusable due to ongoing sleeper replacement work.
If I were to consider associating a number with the difficulties even as an academic exercise, 3 pfs were in use.. now only 2 pfs. therefore, 33 % outage :P.
The current scenario of delays is expected to continue for another 30 - 40 days. Hopefully, the HYB division can come up with some incredible workaround. A display indicating estimated minimum delay for a delayed local is the first step.
Until next time,
Ananth
Live traffic status in Hyderabad can be obtained at this link.
A fantastic start to monitor traffic on the roads… I believe this is powered by airtel and mapunity.
Cheers
Ananth
This post was made possible due to Abhishek Mishra.. Many thanks are due to him.
PRS Centers at MMTS Stations:
CHANDANAGAR HITEC CITY NATURE CURE HOSPITAL SANJEEVAIAH PARK JAMES STREET KHAIRATABAD NECKLACE ROAD LAKDIKAPUL SITAFALMANDI ARTS COLLEGE JAMAI OSMANIA VIDYANAGAR Observation at James Street : There is no POET ( Passenger Operated Enquiry Terminal ) to support PRS
Until Next Time,
ananth
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