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Source: Hindu
A 41.8-km monorail, an elevated rail-based mass rapid transit system (MRTS), has been found feasible for implementation in the capital city in the busy Pallippuram-Ulloor-Overbridge-Killipalam-Neyyattinkara corridor on a Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) mode. The 22.2-km first phase of the project, from Pallippuram to Thampanoor, can be commissioned by 2016 if the construction commences by 2013.
The first phase will culminate in front of the Sreekumar Theatre. Skywalk has been proposed from here to East Fort via Power House road, to the KSRTC's central station and to Trivandrum Central railway station. The monorail tickets are expected to cost around the same as that of the AC low-floor buses operating in the city. According to the last NATPAC report, the rail would go from Karyavattom straight to Kazhakkottam, without touching Technopark.
However, Principal Adviser to the DMRC E. Sreedharan raised the doubts within weeks after the DMRC was appointed project consultant for the project, which had been found feasible by the National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (Natpac). The DMRC is learnt to be going ahead with alternatives such as the LRT. The high cost is also a factor that has weighed in against the monorail project in the capital as the State will not alone be able to mobilise over Rs.5,000 crore needed for the project.
A 41.8-km monorail, an elevated rail-based mass rapid transit system (MRTS), has been found feasible for implementation in the capital city in the busy Pallippuram-Ulloor-Overbridge-Killipalam-Neyyattinkara corridor on a Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) mode. The 22.2-km first phase of the project, from Pallippuram to Thampanoor, can be commissioned by 2016 if the construction commences by 2013.
The first phase will culminate in front of the Sreekumar Theatre. Skywalk has been proposed from here to East Fort via Power House road, to the KSRTC's central station and to Trivandrum Central railway station. The monorail tickets are expected to cost around the same as that of the AC low-floor buses operating in the city. According to the last NATPAC report, the rail would go from Karyavattom straight to Kazhakkottam, without touching Technopark.
However, Principal Adviser to the DMRC E. Sreedharan raised the doubts within weeks after the DMRC was appointed project consultant for the project, which had been found feasible by the National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (Natpac). The DMRC is learnt to be going ahead with alternatives such as the LRT. The high cost is also a factor that has weighed in against the monorail project in the capital as the State will not alone be able to mobilise over Rs.5,000 crore needed for the project.
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