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

Things to come – led display board on mmts

Electronic display on MMTS – Near Future ?

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

Dangerous trespass: Illegal and unintelligent

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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Sign the petition – MMTS I/II

http://www.petitiononline.com/mmts4hyd/petition.html

Sign this petition !!

Help us  make Hyderabad  a better place to live !!

Overshoot

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

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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