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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 |
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BTMC Issues - From RCA Perspective-2 Bheema.Upadhyaya - 19-MAR-2010
This is in continuation of my last post. This time I thought to take delayed disturbed scheduling. As you all aware, RCA is simple technique to find out root causes and thus first step to eliminate bad causes. Some of the caused may be repetitive from last post. But if repeated it should be considered as a major cause and should be given priority.
Effect - Buses not operating in time thus causing inconvinience to public and to BMTC scheduling system itself Causes due to - 1. Traffic Jam at Signal due to -> Long Signals -> Heavy Vehicle Rush -> No traffic Management in junctions -> No signal 2. Traffic Jam at Roads due to |
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Commissioning of Doubling Track between Dharwad Mugad Sanjeev - 18-MAR-2010
SWR has given press notice that on 18.03.2010 will conduct the speed trial on Dharwad to Mugad ( 14 Kms ) on newly laid double line. Now We have double line laid recently between Hubli to Hebsur 19 Kms towards Gadag & Arsikere and Devanur (14 km). With this Dharwad to Kambargavi ( 20 Kms ) Yesvanthpur to Londa has got further boost on double track slowly. We have double track from Hubli junction upto Hubli South Station ( 6 Kms ) towards Kundagol Now Hubli-Dharwad twin city can have local trains with DEMU trains running on the double track. Train can run between Dharwad ( from Karnataka University ) upto Gadag or Kundagol with so many station on the way, many educational colleges & major Hospitals. SWR should start working on starting local train. |
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BMLTA sub committee 6th meeting on 14th Dec'2009 Sanjeev - 17-MAR-2010
BMLTA Sub Committtee minutes of meeting held on 14th Dec'2009, Principal Secretary, Infrastructure Development Department. Here things are clear on starting of services between Yesvanthpur to Anekal and DRM of SWR has agreed finally to start the services between Yesvanthpur to Anekal once they get the Amount for two Rakes. |
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Effect of Metro stations on adjacent roads muthusubs - 16-MAR-2010
The metro work is underway on main roads in most part of Bangalore. The metro stations that are to be constructed are significantly wider than the main track. Will this not create bottlenecks on adjacent roads? For example, there is a metro station being constructed on Old Madras Road near the 80ft road junction. The Old Madras road which is wider on either side of the station suddenly becomes very narrow leading to frequent traffic jams here. Even after the construction of the station, the road width isn't going to change and this can be a serious problem later on. Consider the Vijaynagar main road. If the Metro station is constructed near the Bunts Sangha, it will almost be as wide as the road today. How can the width of the roads be made uniform throughout? Is this something that BMRCL is thinking of? In addition, the presence of a station will require rickshaw stands and bus stops nearby which means the roads have to be wider in these places. On the contrary, the station makes the road narrower. This is definitely a double whammy. |
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Naveen - 16-MAR-2010
The plan to build a large, formal bus stand for Mangalore had been conceived some years ago. Mangalore's original bus stand at Hampankatta had been too small with no scope for any expansion as it had been sandwiched right in the heart of town (CBD). Hence, KSRTC had shifted out to a newer facility of it's own long ago, however private buses continued to use the same bus-stand. With efflux of time, increased number of buses & severe congestion, the inter-city bus stand was moved to Statebank, close to the fishing harbour, which had long been the terminus for intra-city buses (The Hampankatta bus stand is now a convenient parking facility). Within a few years, due to increasing growth rate/s, much higher number of buses & space constraints, the need for a much larger facility was becoming more & more acute. |
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Chikka Circle Buses (K service) ss87 - 13-MAR-2010
There has been sightings of new route prefixed with "K" near Koramangla. The same has been confirmed by http://btis.in K service or the Chikka Circle service has been started recently by BMTC. Following are the routes:
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srinidhi - 11-MAR-2010
Naveen presented a good summary of his meeting with BMRCL One thing that came of that was the DPR for the phase II was in the final stages and would be out soon..there are already questions on |
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Autos - help them to help ourselves ashfaq syed - 11-MAR-2010
Couple of months ago I read in paper about the government subsidy for auto rickshaws to change from 2 stroke to 4 stroke engine. I felt that it was wonderful and very pro-active approach to reducing the pollution. 2 stroke engines pollute 4 times more than cars (because of the pre-mix of oil |