why do you think trams are not use in hyderabad and bengaluru
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Hyderabad: Is Hyderabad going to have a metro rail or a glorified toy train chugging through the city at a snail’s pace? In a surprising declaration before theAPhighcourt, Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) managing director N V S Reddy said that though the project is named as metro rail, in reality, it is a tramway. This was stated in the writ petition filedin thehighcourt on April 9 seeking the vacation of the stay imposed by a single bench of the court last month on the works on the stretch between Ameerpet and Jubilee Hills of corridor 3 (Nagole-Shilparamam) of the ‘metro rail’ project.
“Hyderabad Metro Rail project is a tramway and that merely the project is named as metro rail will not cease to be a tramway,” N V S Reddy said in the petition. What Reddy meant was that instead of a rapid mass transport that is supposed to be a panacea for the city’s growing traffic problem, what actually taking shape is a low potential tramway.
“With the advancement of technology, it is possible to bring a tramway at an elevated level and it was valid because the service is only meant for intra-city trafficunlike a rail system that is meant for inter-city long-distance traffic,” N V S Reddy said in the writ petition. HMRL’s appeal seeking the vacation of the stay is slated to be heard by the division bench of Chief Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice P V Sanjay Kumar on April 17.
Experts feel a tramway can never match a metro rail in terms of handling traffic load and speed. While the metro rail - a rapid mass transit system -has a maximum speed of 120 km per hour and an average speed of 80 kmph, a tramway can travel at a maximum speed of 40 km per hour and will have an averagespeedof a mere20-25 kmph!
As far as the traffic capacity is concerned, a metro train can handle 50,000 passengers per hour per direction (PPD) at peak hours, while a tramway’s capacity is just 4,000 passengers per hour per direction. Normally, a tramway is suitable for short-distance public transport carrying low passenger load with low speed and coal mines where the services are used to transport workers from one side to other and in amusement parks. Tramway not for inter-city services
Hyderabad: “The possibilities of the tramways are limited and a tramway cannot be a solution for the traffic issues of the city like Hyderabad.
“Considering its limited capacity, it cannot be a rapid mass transit system,” said prof M N Srihari, advisor to the government of Karnataka on traffic and infrastructure and a consultant for the Bangalore Metro.
One of the main technical hitches with the Tramways Act is that the rail services cannot be extended to the areas on the city’s exterior when it is required, as the Act restricts the services to intra-city limits.
The Delhi Metro Rail authorities faced such a problem while wanting to extend the rail services to Noida, and were finally forced to change the transport system from the Tramways Act to the Delhi Metro Act.
Even Bangalore Metro had to change from the Tramways Act to the Metro Act after the commissioner for railways safety (CRS) refused to issue the mandatory safety clearance as the safety specifications for a metro rail services are entirely different from those of tramway.
Even the Research and Design and Standards Organization (RDSO), a railway entity, had told the Bangalore Metro Rail authorities that the safety certification cannot be issued as the project was being implemented under theM ysoreTramways Act and not under a Metro Act.
HMRL’s strange declaration that the project is a tramway and not a metro rail appears to be in response to the observation of Justice L Narasimha Reddy of the High Court while staying the workson thestretchbetween Ameerpet and Jubilee Hills last month.
“There is a serious lacuna in the very launching of the project under the AP Tramways Act, although it is almost a full-fledged railway,” the judge had said.
Hyderabad Metro Rail service is designed to cover a length of 71.16 km across the city with three corridors – Miyapur to L B Nagar, Jubilee Bus Station
“Hyderabad Metro Rail project is a tramway and that merely the project is named as metro rail will not cease to be a tramway,” N V S Reddy said in the petition. What Reddy meant was that instead of a rapid mass transport that is supposed to be a panacea for the city’s growing traffic problem, what actually taking shape is a low potential tramway.
“With the advancement of technology, it is possible to bring a tramway at an elevated level and it was valid because the service is only meant for intra-city trafficunlike a rail system that is meant for inter-city long-distance traffic,” N V S Reddy said in the writ petition. HMRL’s appeal seeking the vacation of the stay is slated to be heard by the division bench of Chief Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice P V Sanjay Kumar on April 17.
Experts feel a tramway can never match a metro rail in terms of handling traffic load and speed. While the metro rail - a rapid mass transit system -has a maximum speed of 120 km per hour and an average speed of 80 kmph, a tramway can travel at a maximum speed of 40 km per hour and will have an averagespeedof a mere20-25 kmph!
As far as the traffic capacity is concerned, a metro train can handle 50,000 passengers per hour per direction (PPD) at peak hours, while a tramway’s capacity is just 4,000 passengers per hour per direction. Normally, a tramway is suitable for short-distance public transport carrying low passenger load with low speed and coal mines where the services are used to transport workers from one side to other and in amusement parks. Tramway not for inter-city services
Hyderabad: “The possibilities of the tramways are limited and a tramway cannot be a solution for the traffic issues of the city like Hyderabad.
“Considering its limited capacity, it cannot be a rapid mass transit system,” said prof M N Srihari, advisor to the government of Karnataka on traffic and infrastructure and a consultant for the Bangalore Metro.
One of the main technical hitches with the Tramways Act is that the rail services cannot be extended to the areas on the city’s exterior when it is required, as the Act restricts the services to intra-city limits.
The Delhi Metro Rail authorities faced such a problem while wanting to extend the rail services to Noida, and were finally forced to change the transport system from the Tramways Act to the Delhi Metro Act.
Even Bangalore Metro had to change from the Tramways Act to the Metro Act after the commissioner for railways safety (CRS) refused to issue the mandatory safety clearance as the safety specifications for a metro rail services are entirely different from those of tramway.
Even the Research and Design and Standards Organization (RDSO), a railway entity, had told the Bangalore Metro Rail authorities that the safety certification cannot be issued as the project was being implemented under theM ysoreTramways Act and not under a Metro Act.
HMRL’s strange declaration that the project is a tramway and not a metro rail appears to be in response to the observation of Justice L Narasimha Reddy of the High Court while staying the workson thestretchbetween Ameerpet and Jubilee Hills last month.
“There is a serious lacuna in the very launching of the project under the AP Tramways Act, although it is almost a full-fledged railway,” the judge had said.
Hyderabad Metro Rail service is designed to cover a length of 71.16 km across the city with three corridors – Miyapur to L B Nagar, Jubilee Bus Station
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