Posts : Transportation

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.

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.

WB loan to take Andhra ahead on road safety

shekhar_mittal - 20-OCT-2009

Saw this on HU Mailing List-

250+ new bus shelters from BBMP

silkboard - 19-OCT-2009

Newspapers may have covered this already, but BBMP is redoing 250+ bus shelters for BMTC in the city. Several tenders were floated this month asking for:

"REMOVING EXISTING BUS SHELTER AND DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF NEW TYPE BUS SHELTER WITH KIOSK AGAINST COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT RIGHTS ON DBOOT BASIS"

Big10 Corridor improvement - good intentions

silkboard - 19-OCT-2009

Some good intentioned work seems to have been kicked off on the Big10 corridor this side of the city. From what I can see, the HAL Airport Road, Varthur Road Big10 corridor is seeing some upgrades towards:

Whose Responsibility Are These?

E.R. Ramachandran - 19-OCT-2009

Do we have accidents waiting to happen at every turn?

Road width over pavement - Marathahalli example

silkboard - 19-OCT-2009

First of all, credits to BDA or BBMP or ABIDe (who knows!?) or whoever is thinking about bus interchange points like Marathahalli ring Road and improving the pedestrian amenities there. So yes, something is better than nothing. However, if you watch the work, uncalled for and unscietific preference to road width over pavement is visible. Sample some pictures.

Namma Metro - it just gets better and better.....

rs - 14-OCT-2009

This might be a bit alarmist but this is a report I read earlier today. It does not seem too surprising given that the BMRCL got around to finding digging specialists after starting to dig..

Discussion regarding Bus day

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

Free Helmet....

gopi - 12-OCT-2009

 

One of the ammendments in the year 2005 to the The Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 says