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Bus Services Suffer from an Image Problem Naveen - 30-MAY-2008
“A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure” – Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister. Conventional bus services, the world over are generally perceived as slow, infrequent, inconvenient, uncomfortable, and distinctly lacking in status & quality. What is required for bangalore is a complete change in the way people travel. Invoking cosmetic changes & marketing conventional bus services are unlikely to make major impacts, other than marginally improve patronization (we have seen this all these years). Bus services, unfortunately carry a long-standing negative stigma regarding poor performance & inadequate customer services, despite BMTC being one of the best performing transport corporations. |
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My Experience with BMTC to BIAL rajivjoshi - 29-MAY-2008
On tue May 27, I decided to take BMTC bus from J P Nagar 6th phase to BIAL and here is how it went. |
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BMTC's airport service - experience silkboard - 28-MAY-2008
[Since's Goerge's experience got lost in talks of PPP, privatization etc, I am posting this in a new thread] Got to use BMTC's Whitefield to BIA service yesterday. Went to Hope Farm junction in an auto, and noticed that there was a special board marking the BIAL bus stop. I was there at 1:35 pm, and as per the listed times, a non-A/C service should have shown up in a few minutes. Even though a non-A/C bus was parked about half a km back in Whitefield, nothing showed up. Waiting for the bus wasn't fun - strong sun, no shelter, and no paved surface to rest my luggage. [flickr-photo:id=2531137466,size=m][flickr-photo:id=2530320673,size=m] |
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The international importance of Bengaluru mcadambi - 28-MAY-2008
K P Nayar, one of India's veteran Foreign Affairs correspondent writes about how important Bengaluru is to the International Economy: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080528/jsp/opinion/story_9327261.jsp |
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Imperatives of privatisation of power distribution murali772 - 28-MAY-2008
The World Customers' Day was observed by BESCOM in its usual ritualistic style on Saturday, the 15th March by holding a workshop on 'Customer Care', in association with Public Affairs Centre (PAC), Swabhimana, Consumer Advocacy, and Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC). Of the audience of a 100 odd people, only some 30 were members of Civil Society groups (RWA's, etc), the rest comprising mostly of BESCOM officials. Seeing this, the chief guest, Dr Samuel Paul, Chairman, PAC, remarked that the poor turn out was perhaps an indication of the high level of satisfaction with BESCOM services. |
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murali772 - 28-MAY-2008
CIVIC Bangalore has great pleasure in inviting you to an INTERACTIVE SESSION ON PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (PDS) |
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murali772 - 28-MAY-2008
The ICRIER survey on the question of 'entry of organised sector into retail' has found that producers and consumers also gain considerably. It further noted that all income groups saved on costs through organised retail purchases, but lower income groups saved much more. |
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Alternate roads to Bengaluru International Airport Photoyogi - 28-MAY-2008
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tsubba - 27-MAY-2008sri thanks for the pointer to fishbone. read around the subject a bit. |
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narayan82 - 27-MAY-2008
BMTC and Airindia SATS/Air Deccan have tied up at BIAL to ferry passengers in the Low Floor Red Volvos from the gates to the airplane. I don't get it! The volvos in the city are going packed, the frequency is less than what i can/should be - why can't these busses run on the road instead. To me these busses are a much needed addition to the existing public transport. For the 2 Min ride from the Gate to the Plane, we dont need to use this "fancy" bus! Or we can get a Sutlej or a Tata-Globus/eicher/swaraj mazda for the airport! |