‘No competition between Metro and Mono’

‘No competition between Metro and Mono’
Deccan Herald

As Bangalore continues to debate on the Monorail, a presentation on Friday by a specialist transport solutions company on monorail downplayed the Metro or Mono question.

As Bangalore continues to debate on the Monorail, a presentation on Friday by a specialist transport solutions company on monorail downplayed the Metro or Mono question.

In a presentation made to senior engineers and former bureaucrats, Mr Srinidhi Anantharaman, MD of Geodesic Techniques said Monorail worked best as a complementary feeder to MRTS.

“Metro is indeed a great thing to have happened to Bangalore. It’s going to be a backbone system, taking care of the mass movement in the City while monorail will be the system which disburses this mass movement. There is no room for competition here,” said Mr Ananatharaman, who has led his company’s presentations on monorail in Delhi.

During his presentation, Mr Srinidhi Anantharaman pointed out the positive changes a monorail network could bring about in Bangalore. “Monorail is not amusement park material as noted in some contexts. It’s a highly effective people mover system and in the Indian context, it’s going to make a great difference, considering the diversity and population of this country,” he said.

In a discussion that followed, senior engineers raised apprehensions about certain facets of monorail, including the system’s adaptability to Indian conditions and the pricing system. There were also contentions that monorail car capacities could be considerably less than the figures presented in India.