Where did the Mono Rail go?

Airport Connectivity Part III

Do you remember those many days that the metro came to a halt because of the Mono Rail? Do you remember how Mr Deve Gowda was wooing for it? It costs almost ¼ the per kilometre investment as opposed to Metro.

Do you remember the Malaysian firm that even offered to build the entire Metro/Mono rail project without any financial investment by the government? They even committed for a tighter schedule. Why doesn’t the government keep a little visiting cards book, that can have the contacts of these people?

As I saw it, Monorail can only carry up to 20,000 passengers per hour, while Metro can carry more than 40,000. Understandably the need for planning ahead, and futuristic thinking justifies the metro.

Now, why don’t we use the Mono Rail for the Airport Link from BRV grounds?

The airport is designed right now to handle up to 3000 passengers per hours, and with full capacity can handle up to 16,000 passengers per hour. So by statistics and simple logic, the mono rail should be an option that can run over a very long period of time and not be saturated of its capacity.

The Mono rail costs ¼ the cost of the proposed metro, takes a LOT less time to build, is a lot easier in navigating sharp turns ad requires substantially lest land acquisition. The train can run on the median, left or right of the road, depending on where NHAI wants to build its proposed elevated corridor.

This project can be completed in a year, and can have state-of-the-art facilities to compliment the airport. It will be completed well in advance of the metro – in fact so much that we can sleep over the link BRV station and the Metro Station for a while.

Surely this must be a viable option...