I agree the brighter side that new places got ndls connectivity.
But i feel that rerouting of super successful KSK in entirety is also a bad idea.
Instead, the 5 days...
more... running ksk could have been made bi weekly in the same shorter route and in the remaining 3 days , it could have started from hubbali in the current route.
Thus keeping the 5 days slot from dhone onwards in tact.
In this case sbc will be losing 3 days of ksk run, which shall be shortly compensated by daily running private train.
But again, this connectivity of 5 days ksk via dvg ubl bay will give frst time connectivity to Sc, Ngp to entire stretch between Tumkur Hubli.