BMTC - tight schedules leading to accidents

s_yajaman - 3-OCT-2009

Read this in DH today. 

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/28436/tight-schedule-leads-mishap.html

Quite a damning report on BMTC's irresponsible practices.  I think quite a bit of discussion has taken place around this.

Estimating travel demand - A different Approach

Naveen - 29-SEP-2009

Further to ideas expressed for determining travel patterns in this thread :

Sustainable public transport system II

n - 28-SEP-2009

First pass at adding to blrpraj's document as promised. Additions are in a different font ("Arial") and colour (blue); no modifications or deletions. Comments are welcome.

Estimating travel patterns in Bangalore - possible approach

s_yajaman - 26-SEP-2009

Have been chastisized by Tarle for pouring ATF on burning embers in a previous post and not using my praja time on more useful things :). 

800 out of 4000 BMTC buses have bilingual destination boards

manjari - 23-SEP-2009

Only 800 BMTC buses have bilingual destination boards, while the remaining 4000-odd regular buses have Kannada only boards. It is the top political leadership that appears to be standing in the way.

The Big10 routing concept

silkboard - 23-SEP-2009

A book to group together posts that uncover Big10 related routing reform initiated at BMTC. Big10 is seen as an attempt to rationalize BMTC's routing scheme. Simply put, the concept consists of radial routes connecting peripheral areas with central business district, and the rings or local shuttles could provide angular or last mile connectivity.

KR Puram Bus Stand - Does it exist?

Sunil Kumar - 21-SEP-2009

I would like to share with you all a bitter experience. On Saturday I was in KR Puram area at around 5pm & was waiting for a bus to Hebbal. It started to pour I would not believe there is no shelter for passangers to stand at all. It poured for over 1 hour I had to cross the road & stand under the ATM counter for a roof.

Big10 concept - Circle Routes are here?

silkboard - 21-SEP-2009

I have been seeing these new routes marked C-1 (for Circle 1 ?) for a few weeks now. Was waiting for some crisp annnouncement or press release, haven't noticed anything big yet, so posting.

Sustainable public transport system - high level requirements

blrpraj - 19-SEP-2009

This has been long pending in my mind after reading and contributing to various praja posts over almost a year. I took a stab at a document that analyzes the high level requirements of a integrated public transportation network for Bangalore that can ultimately cater to long term growth.

BMTC and possible open-market proposals or experiments

silkboard - 11-SEP-2009

We are coming off from this debate. Idea is to leave the debate, and talk specific proposals.