BMTC Engagements - 2009

manjari - 1-MAY-2009

Those who think they know BMTC well, tell us this. How do they plan new bus routes? How do they actually make a profit? How often do they undertake routing and deployment reforms? How do they get help from BBMP and Traffic Police - any agreement based approach?

Illegal buses - Bootlegging in Prohibition?

idontspam - 7-SEP-2009

Illegal private bus services on the rise in Bangalore

"We do not have sufficient space to park seized maxi cabs and buses that indulge in such operations."

Omni City Taxi - Where do you fit in?

Vasanth - 5-SEP-2009

After BIAL, omni based city taxis are running low on business. Except for few taxis from Railway Station, no where they have business. They are also not coming out of their 'egos'.

Connecting TTMCs - A possible approach

Vasanth - 4-SEP-2009

Last year, we had discussed about the various routing algorithms, we discussed about Hub-Spoke, Grid etc and came to a conslusion like this via TTMCs:

Mono Rail for city transport

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 2-SEP-2009

Source: Dec.Chronicle todate

Gist:

Futuristic Mono Rail on 30 km ORR between JP Nagar & Hebbal Flyover - Project Report in two months - Bangalore Airport Rail Link Authority - Comprehensive Transport and Traffic Plan (CTTP) - Rs.44,000 crore estimate

First TTMC Opened

Naveen - 2-SEP-2009

The first TTMC has been opened. This is a report from DH.

Namma Metro and the confusion over the underground route

ashwin - 1-SEP-2009

The lack of disclosure about the exact underground route and the resultant confusion that causes is once again illustrated by today's TOI article

Organising an Event on Sustainable Transport

shekhar_mittal - 1-SEP-2009

BMTC Meeting Presentation and Minutes

manjari - 30-AUG-2009

We had a meeting with the CTM(O) of BMTC, the first half a presentation was presented by Praja (attached below)

There were a couple of topics discussed ranging from how to publicize BMTC to feeder minibusses.

A list of suggestions was also given to BMTC. The list of suggestion has been put up in a different

Lets talk 2050

idontspam - 28-AUG-2009

So there will be population increase in Bangalore like other cities, two out of three people in this world are going to be in the cities.