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Crowdsourcing: BMTC Vajra Route info database - I admin123 - 29-JUN-2010
A few folks at Praja are trying to create some handy, cool and easy to understand maps for buses. In the initial phases their focus has been on the volvo routes. |
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Crowdsourcing: BMTC Vajra Route info database - I admin123 - 29-JUN-2010
A few folks at Praja are trying to create some handy, cool and easy to understand maps for buses. In the initial phases their focus has been on the volvo routes. |
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Crowdsourcing: BMTC Vajra Route info database - I admin123 - 29-JUN-2010
A few folks at Praja are trying to create some handy, cool and easy to understand maps for buses. In the initial phases their focus has been on the volvo routes. |
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Crowdsourcing: BMTC Vajra Route info database - I admin123 - 29-JUN-2010
A few folks at Praja are trying to create some handy, cool and easy to understand maps for buses. In the initial phases their focus has been on the volvo routes. |
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Which monthly pass should i prefer... help me. ikalci007 - 29-JUN-2010
Hi all, I have to travel daily from Kovempu Circle (near BEL Circle) to Rammurthy Nagar Signal (near K.R Puram tinfactory), now i want to take a monthly pass for this. I want to know that is in this route Black board pass valid or not? I have confusion in Black board pass and other pass. Should i take Black board pass or other pass? Suggest me!!! |
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Bus Day Campaign - Need Minds & Hands!! Srivatsava - 24-JUN-2010
Heres some fun activity followed by lot more fun activity!! Update: The video campaign is put off for now. A separate notification will be posted on Praja whenever it happens!! The effort to meet and get the buy-in of corporators will go ahead as planned. Event 1: Video Campaign We have to build some short videos as Bus Day online campaign material. The intent is to showcase advantages of taking the bus, in short and crisp videos (may be 10 sec to 1min duration). The 'shoot' is planned for Saturday, 26th June from 8:30am to 10am. We need volunteers to enact in the clips. We need men and women - old, young & middle-aged, able to speak 'minimal' English or Kannada. And yes, ideas and storylines for the videos are also welcome. Hope to see atleast 10 people!! Venue: Shantinagar Bus Stand (tentative). From there, we may hop on to a 'exclusive' Bus to shoot the videos!! And yes, We need a good camcoder and a interested/skilled 'video'grapher. Any volunteers? Event 2: Corporators Campaign!! |
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July Bus Day - moved to 7th July Srivatsava - 23-JUN-2010
Folks, get ready to take the Bus again!! July Bus day will NOT be on the 4th of July, since its a Sunday. Instead, it will be on Monday, the 5th of July. 7th July, moved out in light of Bharat Bandh. This time round, there are two more corridors being added for Bus Day, making it a total of 7 corridors. The list of corridors
As usual, don't forget post your experinces here on Praja!! |
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BMTC Feeder service to City Railway Stations! kbsyed61 - 23-JUN-2010
Deccan Herald carried a news item quoting BMTC about its plans to start a feeder service connecting BMTC Bus Stand and the City Railway Station. |
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Routes introduced after February 2010 ss87 - 15-JUN-2010
Following routes came into existence after the first bus day in Bangalore City by BMTC |
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BMTC invites tender for Hebbal TTMC under PPP! kbsyed61 - 9-JUN-2010
Happened to notice a tender notification on BMTC website for the construction of TTMC at Hebbal. The Tender document states the site overview to be "..The project site is located in the northern part of the city at Hebbal, measuring about 7.95 acres. The site is situated at the intersection of the National Highway 7 (Bellary Road) and the Outer Ring Road. The intersection along with the Hebbal flyover is an important landmark in the city and is strategically located in terms of connectivity to the new airport at Devanahalli and to different parts of the city. As per the Bangalore Master Plan 2015, the site land use is classified as Traffic & Transport (T&T) category. Currently out of 7.95 acres, about 4.27 acres of the bus depot is operated by BMTC. Depot comprises of maintenance workshop, washing area, fuelling station, stores and administration building. At present, the depot is a base for about 210 buses which includes about 90 Volvo buses..." |