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New Buses for our City Good but Where is Infrastructure? Sunil Kumar - 26-OCT-2009
Good News is BMTC will have more buses on the road as the below news article in todays newspaper, But where is the relevant Infrastructure planned for this launch. 1.The roads are still narrow. 2.The Bus Depots are still under construction or tenders are just out. 3.The routes are not planned to run this 1000 odd buses. |
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silkboard - 23-OCT-2009
Talking the popular subject of cramped commutes, in the middle of cribs and geek talk, we never put out our visions, Our vision, as in the end result if some things we wish for were to come true. Yes, no city level technical gyan etc - personal dreams. Let me start with my route. Facts first. |
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Idea for Bus day event - bus only corridors? manjari - 22-OCT-2009
For the bus day, one of the things in discussion is to block a few corridors and allow only buses. Does anyone have any idea which corridors can be used? Also there should be a possible diversion for the cars and auto etc to go. It would be very helpful if it can be mapped on a google map. |
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No Volvo bus services for Mathikere sprint_raj - 21-OCT-2009
Introduction of Vajra services in Bangalore has been one of phenomenal step taken by BMTC. It has really helped lot of people especially women to travel with ease in Bangalore. BMTC has introduced lot of Volvo buses with appropriate frequencies for most of the areas in Bangalore. Its obviously an elcome step. |
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Ideas for Bus Day - Online Praja Meeting! kbsyed61 - 20-OCT-2009
It will be a ONLINE Skype Meeting. Purpose would be to brainstorm ideas for Bus daya event. Please leave a comment here if you are interested in the discussions. It is open for all. All you need is Skype Account and a Headset/Mrciphone set. |
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manjari - 13-OCT-2009
There will be a meeting with Mithila regarding the Bus Day.
The discussion will only include the Bus day, its planning and how to go about it. Anyone interested can join, please feel free to put up any question and suggestion |
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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. |
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Estimating travel demand - A different Approach Naveen - 29-SEP-2009
Further to ideas expressed for determining travel patterns in this thread : |
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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. |
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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 :). |