As soon as you step out in esplanades bus stand, you will feel as if you’re in Bihar or Jharkhand or chattisgarh. The bus stand has zero amenities, totally outdated, looks 60-70 years old, encroached with guthkha shops and other food hawkers shop. No rest room, no wash room. Thanks to Bengal government, no change is expected in that area.
True, because buses connect neighbouring states and we have Bihar, JH & Chattisgarh as our neighbouring states. New ISBT is coming up in New Town, so things will change soon.
That's because the Govt is not keen to continue the bus stands in Esplanade/Dharmatalla and Babughat... all buses in the days to come will be terminated/originated at Santragachhi and New Town... but needless to say the process has been painfully slow...
@@sauravpathak1408 1. Entry should be denied if a person is chewing gutkha. That will take care of the Beharis. 2. Wearing lungi and entering the stations should be prohibited. That will take care of the Bangladeshis.
@@Anything4freedom It's not just Biharis who eat gutka I have seen Bengalis eating too so it's just a stereotype. Secondly I hardly believe metros will take strict action because the authority in Mumbai also didn't and now the Aqua line already has gutka stains. For Bangladeshis I think they shouldn't even be allowed in this country illegally to begin with and only not allowing them to enter the metro is going to solve nothing about illegal immigrants.
@@Anything4freedom gives any proof that one person entering the metro station wearing lungis... If you can't provide any proof then stop barking like dogs
I am given to understand that the biggest draw back of this Metro station serving two Metro lines is that there's no direct transfer arrangement for passengers from station concourse to the airport arrival and departure areas. Unlike other airport connected Metro stations a passenger has to come out of the arrival gate, walk a distance to get into the entry gate of the station and similarly walk out of the Metro exit gate, walk a distance to reach the departure area. Metro authority should have thought of this at the very planning and designing stage. The AAI/NSCBI and Metro authorities may still put in a system in place for check in and luggage drop at the station concourse to offer the travellers a hassle free movement.
One more terminal is proposed to be constructed (replacing the old unused terminal building), the Metro station has been built in such a manner that it can cater to both (exisiting and upcoming) terminal buildings... But yes, I guess you are right that the designs could have been better, more ergonomical...
Still at least 2years, they have been saying the metro will open that year since 2020, in many places pillers aren't even constructed till now. The route that might open fast will be the Airport Noapara section but it isn't the most important one at all, the most one would have been the Sector V - Airport and Barasat-Airport, Barast part hasn't even started yet although land acquiring is done and machines are just lying in the sun for more than a year and the Kavi Subhas part at many places pillers are yet to completed stations yet to be built, viaducts to be connected and many more.
Kolkata is growing. It is 5th in India and 11th in the world for fastest-developing cities after Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We get a lot of negativity from most news media but believe me, there are already global investments by Global Foundries, Reliance, Adani, STT, and NTT. The development of eastern India is equally important as that of the south. I hope Kolkata and eastern states can grow more so that our people don't have to travel outside.
kolkata is growing , but others are growing faster, thats why its went from richest city in asia to hell, because it grew at its own pace, thats low pace
Kolkata is growing .. it's the 3rd richest city in India.. but rest West Bengal is now Bihar and Jharkhand, this is the sad reality.. We have so much potential in Durgapur and Kharagpur
3:24 Why is it that anything good happens with Metro Rail Kolkata, the Joomlawala gets the credits, and the moment something bad happens, everyone blames the state govt?
@@750ccsd5 the moment you uttered, I could feel you are a pappubhakt. So anyways, it's responsibility of state govt to do some basic maintenance and cleanliness outside the metro station, which this bigot Mamta pishi failed to do it. I know you will counter me with illogical opinions as pappu does, but I don't care.
@@750ccsd5 because chutiye, Central government allocates the fund and does the planning but the execution is denied by mamta begum. Land acquisition and route is decided by the state. Go and check the interview of the project head for Esplanade to Sealdah metro.. The route was changed because there were illegal kangladeshi shops coming in the way..Now the route chosen has so many changes and the project head is also not sure when the completion will happen.
@@750ccsd5 Can you say which authority is restricting to begin construction of line5 of Kolkata metro? The line having no progress of work. Meanwhile as other lines are progressing, funds being alloted for those.
t2 airport metro once fully operational can accomodate upto 1 lakh people at a time. only metro 3 level is done. they are planning 2 more lines line 7A and line 8. 7A will be done by 2025 end and metro 8 is in planning stage and will connect CSMIA to Navi Mumbai airport which will kick off in 2025.
from which direction metro will run? airport garia line is not completed. near chinar park, Jatragachi some fractions are pending. only dumdum cant via noapara line is going to be ready. kindly reply . only 5 months are remaining. lot of civil works are pending at kaikhali area.
@@areensen1473 That's one station out of 50 operational ones and that too made in the 80s. And park street station floods due to its low elevation and old drainage pump systems which are under repair.
As it is that the current projects are delayed beyond imagination. Let us be happy with what we are getting. Consider yourself lucky if Airport Metro becomes Operational next year as the authorities claim it to be.
You need to change at Noapara and Esplanade. If Line 2 is extended till VIP road then you'll need to travel on orange line from airport to VIP road and change to Green line and travel straight from VIP till Howrah
Kolkata doesn't get even 10% of money pumped into Delhi... So run along, and spit your gutkha stains in Delhi, and plz oh plz keep away from this city...
Delhi is the national capital and also a UT, second thing is Delhi’s architecture is very different. There are more lands than houses, whereas Kolkata has more number of houses to roads and the ratio is lowest in India making it difficult to construct. Railways cannot build on private roads, it will only be constructed on government roads. Kolkata did not have much government roads and due to migration in the 1971, whatever government plots were available they were turned into housing plots for the migrants, making the government plots more less then after 1980s came politics and illegal migrants and immigrants which further created more choking of government roads and areas, and now almost all the construction are getting impossible because of the blockage. State don’t want to remove due to vote banks and central needs to listen to state and things are getting delayed and this will continue until the state and central have the same party then something will change. One story happened in our village, I don’t know how army government works but few months ago their were some change in the boarding officers and there was some strict officer came from Delhi. There were small illegal people living in the army areas, they were mostly old Hindu people we know it because we have been seeing them for a very long time there was a temple too there. I don’t know what happened but one night at around 2AM it was raining and suddenly a bulldozer came and broke all the houses there like all, almost 90% got injured and were shifted to hospitals including children and mothers even the temple was demolished and the idol was taken to the nearby shop where it is kept. In just 1-2 hours the whole area was a flat land, nobody questioned no political people came to rescue, no media came, nobody reported. I don’t know what happened, nobody even recorded the incident. There is no history or anything evidence anywhere and is a normal flat plains now nobody will say something existed there. But this is not possible with normal Kolkata land right?
First outlaw all hand-pulled rickshaws and provide them with an alternate livelihood, perhaps even buying them autorickshaws. It is inhumane, slow/inefficient-leading to traffic jams, and a sign of poverty. Unless you are interested in preserving old, third world charm, hand-pulled rickshaws have no business existing in a modern economy, especially in a city. Maybe they have some utility in villages where there are no paved roads for vehicles to go on.
15k is above average according to India's Average household income. Also, Kolkata is the 3rd Expensive city in India after Mumbai and Delhi. So therefore u cannot say kolkata is poor. But definitely if compared to a few decades ago, yes kolkata saw limited economic growth. All thanks to the present government for not letting all the schemes organised by the central government.
@@lifeboy1978 GargaDa's grand plans aren't working anymore... with each day it's becoming more and more evident that they're nothing but TMC's B-Team... Used to support them myself earlier, as you have similar groups in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra... but Bangla Pokkho is a friggin disgrace as of today...
