Bangalore Public Transport

silkboard - 27-OCT-2008

From having a single state wide bus operator serving the city in early ninties, public transportation scenario in Bangalore has come a long long way. The city boasts of having the best city bus transport corporation (BMTC), it will get is first Metro rail by end of 2010, and there is talk of monorail and bus rapid transport system (BRTS) as well.

Meeting with BMRC MD, Mr N Sivasailam

admin123 - 25-OCT-2008

Update: Oct 30, 12:30 pm - Meeting confirmed, 12-15 of us can go.

Traffic Congestion – Possible case for a PIL

Naveen - 20-OCT-2008

As outlined below, the formation of the prescribed bodies to tackle traffic congestion & to improve living conditions in the city was completed some time ago as recommended. Despite this, no concrete steps seem to be planned to stem the rot. The same old solutions continue to be doled out – the usual widening of roads after felling more trees & introducing more bus routes. These temporary solutions have been making things worse as widening roads invites more vehicles & the losers continue to be pedestrians & public transport users.
 

Solar rickshaws

murali772 - 13-OCT-2008

Solar-powered rickshaws called green rickshaws were introduced in Chandni Chowk here on Thursday as part of a pilot project. Each of these rickshaws costs about Rs.17,000 and the idea is to have them in place of the man-pulled rickshaws.

Meeting with BMRC (Metro)

admin123 - 1-OCT-2008

[Updated, Oct 7: We have requested for Oct 18/19, or the weekend after that as some interested members are unavailable on Oct 11. Mr Sivasailam will get back after Oct 12, will post new dates once we get them]

Tenders for 10 metro stations - details

silkboard - 29-SEP-2008

First of all, I have no idea what that Deccan Chronicle article meant when it talked numbers like Rs 1 to 10 Crore per station. We have been noticing Bangalore Metro tenders in newspapers, all are available on BMRC website as well. Here are the details, with links to the tender pdf files:

1. CMH Road + Byppanhalli stations - Rs 81 Crores (link)
2. RV Road Terminal + Jayanagar - Rs 61 Crores (link)
3. Tollgate + Hosahalli + Vijayanagar - Rs 98 Crores (link)
4. Yeswantpur + Soap Factory + Mahalaxmi Nagar - Rs 111 Crores (link)

Namma Metro

Devesh - 25-SEP-2008

I was supremely disappointed on reading this story in today's Deccan Chronicle. A quid pro quo with Bangalore for an elevated metro was to have good looking stations. Now we are going to get eyesores up in the sky, and are not even sure if there will be basic ameneties like lifts and escalators.

Quick Metro updates

swamy - 20-SEP-2008

Prajagale' - two quick metro updates from last week.

1) Yeddy has asked BMRC to study extending Metro from Byappanhalli to BIA (airport at Devenahalli). Suhas sir had mentioned this in his review of CTTP here. Source: Express Buzz and other papers also.

Metro shoddy too?

idontspam - 13-SEP-2008

They have dumbed down the metro stations originally to make it look straight out of a village. Maybe BMRC is also taking us for a ride. (see the two images)

Need study for metro projects

blrsri - 14-SEP-2008

We have seen many projects which are very ill conceived and never catering to the actual needs. These more to satisfy interests of few people!