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srinidhi - 17 September, 2013 | Bangalore | BMTC | Bus | Citizen Reports | Routing | Big10 | Bus | big

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    Ashwin Mahesh
    The second generation of the Big10 bus system, renamed slightly as BIG (Bangalore Intra-City Grid) launches today. I'm glad to see that the new government is continuing with some of the reforms from the previous government that worked well. Direction-orientation has worked well, for the most part. It can work even better if the transit points were also well-located and designed, and we also need to revise the fare structure so that there is no penalty for switching buses on a journey. 

    But, for the moment, I'll take the reforms we can get, and move forward. Congratulations, Anjum Parwez, and best wishes for a nice launch. I look forward to seeing the connect services also come into place. Meanwhile, I've made some progress with a bus stop information system that is quite nimble in data collection as well. Hopefully BMTC will pioneer this too, like the rest of the things it has led in the last few years.
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      Ashwin Mahesh There are two major revisions this time from the previous version. One is that instead of a single destination in the city (e.g. G3 goes to Brigade Road), there will be 3 destinations in the city (KBS, Shantinagar, Shivajinagar) for each BIG route. This will allow a lot of criss-crossing within city centre, and allow people to connect from one service to another. Second is that in the outer limits of the city there will be 3 termination points instead of one. I.e. BIG on Hosur Road will go to E City, Attibele or Chandapura. Frequencies will be highest on the most used segments, and this will allow much better fleet utilisation.
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      Naveen Patil Will the shuttles penetrate along the Hosur Road - Inside HSR /Bommanahalli/Kudlu/Hosa/Jail Road etc ?
       
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      Ashwin Mahesh Yes. Smaller 9 meter buses are coming, which will do these connects.
       
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      Ashwin Mahesh Here is a schema ...
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      Ashok Narayanan Smaller buses will be a welcome adoption. 

      Will destination of existing G4 bus change to Shivajinagar from Brigade road?

      It would be great if one of the BIG buses towards South Blr can touch the Cantt station.
       
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      Ashok Narayanan Read as Addition, not adoption in my above post.
       
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      Ashwin Mahesh Ideally the extensions should be from the 'existing terminal points'. I.e. if G4 went to KBS or Shanti nagar without touching Brigade Road, that wouldn't be directional, particularly. Partly these things are a function of frequencies. If the direction-oriented fleet was doubled, we could easily meet multiple goals, but that needs govt with deeper understanding of the value of BUS in public transport, and correspondingly high investments in this instead of other modes.
       
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      Krishna Kumar Lakkimsetty Ashwin Mahesh Is new BIG system an enhancement to existing BIG10 system? What changes we can expect for G4? What are the new terminal points planned for G4 in addition to exiting Brigade Road? The schema also shows that the different starting points as well(reading something like that in your earlier posts) but you have not mentioned anything regarding that. Can you please elaborate on that?
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      Sameer Shisodia No penalties for switching buses will indeed be super useful - look forward to that someday! The directional services should ensure a leaner system with better frequencies and reach.
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what about existing routes?

srinidhi - 17 September, 2013 - 02:16

I just looked up on mybmtc.com and there are atleast 25 different bus routes connecting EC from KBS.

Will all these get cancelled with this introduction of the BIG trunk service?

If they are run together, then its a recepie for failure of the BIG concept. If not immediate stoppage, there needs to be gradual time bound cancellation of the older destination based routing.

We had discussed on how to better utilize TTMCs here

Vasanth - 17 September, 2013 - 13:55

http://praja.in/en/blog/vasanth/2009/09/03/connecting-ttmcs-possible-approach

This would also eliminate the need to travel to CBD to travel to the other part of the city and almost any locality to any locality connectivity.

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