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Bus Day - feedback and Suggestion Srivatsava - 23-APR-2010
We have a meeting fixed up with BMTC to discuss the feedback recieved over the last three Bus days, the lessons learnt, the actions/initiaves taken by BMTC in adressing the issues and any suggestions that can be taken up for the further editions of the Bus Day. Venue: BMTC Office, Shantinagar Bus Interchange Time : 10AM -11AM. |
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BMTC Conveys its thanks to all the Praja Community for Bus Day Support! kbsyed61 - 15-APR-2010
Came across the news release from BMTC thanking all the patrons who have supported their Bus Day campaign. A special mention is there for Praja and all the members who have been supporting right from day one. The release says "..................... BMTC thanks all citizens who travelled by Bus! This release is available here |
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BMTC - S1 Route (Vijayanagar to Vijayanagar) Ravi_D - 9-APR-2010
Saw these buses plying on outer ring road near BTM layout yesterday & today. Looks like an extension of Big10 concept, Big10 to Circle Routes to S (not sure what it stands for) routes? Surprisingly, while the BMTC call center did not have any detail to offer, the buses seemed to quite fully loaded!. I got bumped from the call center guy to the control room to Vijayanagar Bus Stand (22952362). All were cordial, willing to help, but had no info to offer. |
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What's on FM radio about Bus Day this week!? jennypinto - 6-APR-2010
Just to keep all in the loop about what's on air about bus day.... 94.3 , radio one, started Monday this week. Busday: |
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Route Search is available on BMTC Website kbsyed61 - 4-APR-2010
Happened to visit the BMTC website to check if anything has changed. Got a surprise to find that its link for 'Route Search' is active and it did allows route search. Searched few routes and seems to the results presented were correct and useful. here is the link for BMTC route Search http://www.yulopindia.com/bmtc//index.php/bus/redirect_to_route_search Vinod,s8, srivatsava, manish, could you all pls check this out and report if this feature reports the correct routes and people can rely on the results for planning their travel in Bengaluru. Syed |
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ss87 - 31-MAR-2010
Following the recent increase in fuel prices,BMTC is planning to increase the fares.The same was published in the bangalore mirror newspaper of yesterday. Owing to BBMP elections and results the bus fares will be mostly increased once the poll results come out. |
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BMTC Issues - From RCA perspective - 3 Bheema.Upadhyaya - 30-MAR-2010
Few of the points mentioned in the survey (in second set) is about bus stands/stops. 1) Dirty and sad bus stands, do not like waiting there 2) Very hard to walk to and from the Bus Stands
Effect : Do not like waiting there.Causes: 1) No adequate shelter(sad bus stands) - Damaged roofing - No roofing 2) Poor furniture - Demolishing in progress - Repair - Damaged or vandalized - Unclean and not usable - Sharp edges or broken edges - Very old - No disabled friendly furnitures/path
3) Not Clean due to - Spitting (Pan and simple) |
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New Mini Bus Terminal at Byappanahalli on Old Madras Road. Sanjeev - 30-MAR-2010
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has begun inter-State operations at a new mini bus terminal at Baiyappanahalli on Old Madras Road. According to K A Rajkumar, Director (Operations), the State-run corporation has constructed a small facility near the old NGEFactory, on a trial basis. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/61031/ksrtc-terminal-baiyappanahalli.html Poor publicity by KSRTC may be due to BBMP election. Now they should give good advertisment about this. |
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Feeder Routes as 'Branded' Service Srivatsava - 24-MAR-2010
One of the most publisied initivates of the BMTC last year was the intoroduction of the Big10 routes. On some routes, it was just a renaming of the route number, but it was always useful since it was 'Branded Service'. People anywhere can easily identify a Big-10 bus easily and a lot of people realise the routes that these buses ply on. Another branding attempt from BMTC has been the 'Big Circle', for buses that ply mainly on the Ring Road. I happened to see a K-series bus on Jayanagar 30th Cross and this has been on Praja before. Vajra, Vayu Vajra and Atal Saarige have also been some other 'branding' attempts by BMTC. For the two bus days (Feb and March), BMTC had made arrangements to run feeder services in select areas. Some of these are permanent in nature and not restricted to only a day in a month. There have been other feeder services (FDR1 to FDR-6 for the Uttarahalli/Chikkalsandra/BSK areas being one of the earliest). Why cant these buses be branded in a common way? |
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vinod_shankar - 21-MAR-2010
Recently CAG had done a audit of BMTC , an article has been published on the same in business standard. http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bmtc-profitsdownward-curve/389290/
Some of important points in the report 1.For year-ended March 2009, the corporation has reported a 60.6 per cent drop in the net profit at Rs 55.18 crore, compared to the previous year. 2. an operating loss of Rs 20.6 crore compared to an operating profit of Rs 70.8 crore for 2008-09 as against the previous year. 3. The earnings per kilometre (KM) was Rs 24.63 and expended Rs 23.28 per KM during the year. 4.carried an average of 3.66 million passengers per day 5. the number of trips operated by the corporation increased to 25 million in 2008-09 from 16 million in 2004-05, the percentage of trips checked to the trips operated declined 1.17 per cent from 1.65 per cent in 2004-05 vinod |