Baiyappanahalli coaching terminal to be further delayed

Bengaluru | Thursday | 11th July, 2019

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S Lalitha ByExpress News ServiceBENGALURU: The Baiyappanahalli coaching terminal has not merely missed its June-end launch but it has now come to light that its design needs to be reworked upon due to major flaws committed much earlier at the drawing board stage. However, the first phase of the terminal missed many deadlines and top railway officials were confident of a June-end opening. In fact, they even sent a proposal to the Railway Board to shift 32 pairs of trains from five stations in the Bengaluru Railway Division to Baiyappanahalli recently. A senior railway official told The New Indian Express, “The Engineering Scale Plan needs to be reworked now. It is not possible to lay railway tracks or platforms with the existing design plan at the Baiyappanahalli yard..