Coimbatore District Rail Passengers Association demand Vande Bharat train for Coimbatore to Bengaluru

It is a long-term pending demand of Coimbatorians to connect Bangalore via Hosur by regular train service. There are more than 130 bus services between Coimbatore and Bangalore with an average ticket price of Rs 750 operating every day carrying more than 7500 passengers in this route


Coimbatore: Coimbatore is the second biggest city in Tamil Nadu with a total business of more than Three lakh fifty thousand crore rupees in the last financial year and the fastest growing city in software with an office space Utilization of more than 15 lakh sq.ft for IT/ ITEs/ BPO sector.

In a statement, they requested, “It is a long-term pending demand of Coimbatorians to connect Bangalore via Hosur by regular train service. We request you to kindly introduce the eight rakes Vande Bharat express from Bangalore to Coimbatore via Hosur which will be an instant success and it will draw fully crowded passengers on all days ensuring profitable line of operations.

There are more than 130 bus services between Coimbatore and Bangalore with an average ticket price of Rs 750 operating every day carrying more than 7500 passengers. Three flight services with a total capacity of more than six hundred passengers at an average ticket price of Rs 4000 and more than 3500 passenger vehicles travel daily between Coimbatore and Bangalore.

People from Coimbatore travelling to Hosur, Bangalore and North Karnataka is also increasing and at present only two direct trains originate from Coimbatore junction to Bangalore whereas all the six trains originating from Coimbatore to Chennai is fully utilized by passengers that shows the potential of the highly urbanized region of the State .

Traders, Students, Software professionals, Industrialists, farmers and tourists often travel vice versa from Karnataka to Coimbatore. Also kindly reroute Train number 22666/22665 Coimbatore/ Bangalore/ Coimbatore train service via Hosur which has a lot of industries similar to Coimbatore.

Kindly be rest assured that both the above trains will be very well patronized similar to the trains in the Coimbatore to Chennai section and it will bring a lot of revenue to the Railways along with option of providing a comfortable journey to the public.

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