CRS Bangalore: A project that never gets the green

tsubba - 27-FEB-2008

The railway budget 08-09 is out. The fares are down. Plea for Bangalore-Arsikere-Mangalore is left un-answered, but we have been blessed with a handful of other trains instead. Also featured in the new budget are more half hearted promises on the same old projects that have been on simmer since more than a decade now (be done with the Gulbarga Bidar line already). As far as Bangalore, in and by itself is concerned, the CRS finds no mention in the 08-09 budget. With this two years would have passed in the Comprehensive Traffic and Transport Plan's Phase I(07-12) with no action on the 204 km CRS project.

work on the metro..

blrsri - 26-FEB-2008

* is woefully slow, how many more months will they make MG road a dump yard?\n* is just fine..let them work peacefully\n* need to made faster..we need the first phase by 2009\n* \n* \n

Should BIAL be subject to RTI?

tsubba - 13-FEB-2008

* Yes\n* No\n* I dont care.\n* \n* \n

BMTC Services To Bengaluru International Airport

tsubba - 13-FEB-2008

[Update May 29: Read this and this for experiences around BMTC Airport buses.]

The BMTC has released the fares of the soon to be introduced ‘Airport Bus Service’ to BIAL, connecting the airport from eight locations of the city. These buses will be numbered as BIAL 1 to 7 for the first seven routes that are expected to hit the roads in the last week of March.

Public Transport For Bangalore

tsubba - 8-FEB-2008

1) Why is it that the excise duty is 16 per cent on buses and a mere 1-2 per cent for BMWs?
2) Why not stop registration of cars like Singapore did?
3) You talk of conserving fuel and at the same time promote large segment cars. There are no concessions for small cars. Reva gets an excise duty concession, not here, but in London!
4) Transport is not about travelling between two points but about making a statement on ‘having arrived’
5) The road transport authority constituted has only bureaucrats, instead of multiple stakeholders.
6) Broadways and more flyovers are not the answer, as Bangkok has found out! Despite widening its roads it has not been able to avoid traffic jams at bottlenecks.
7) Witness the spate of road widening in Bangalore that has seen hundreds of trees felled. To what purpose? Simply to allow a mind-boggling 2.5 million vehicles to speed for a distance and then cruise to crawling speed! We never seem to learn.

greening of Paris

murali772 - 5-FEB-2008

As Asian cities demonstrate their development through an extensive network of expressways and flyovers, Paris, recipient of the World Sustainable Transportation Award, shows the way forward to making our cities more livable… http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2008/02/03/stories/2008020350050400.htm

Economical Transportation Solutions for Sustainable Bangalore

sudhir - 2-FEB-2008

Big Idea for Transportation in Bangalore - Plan for Non Motorized Transportation in Bangalore

When people refer to Bangalore, they immediately visualise the chaotic traffic scenario. A lot of concern has been expressed over the years on the congestion issue with government launching several schemes to improve its traffic (Building several Roads, Flyovers etc) but alas no solution!!

Nayandahalli Station Should Be Improved

Vasanth - 31-JAN-2008

Southern most station of Bangalore, Nayandahalli needs to be developed to offload the load on SBC. Currently, the people of southern Bangalore travelling towards Mysore need to go all the way upto City Station paying hefty amount to autos, stand in very long queues (sometimes miss the train because of not getting the ticket in time) and then take up travel. Hence most of the south bangaloreans take up buses from satellite bus stand.

Speed Governor

Vasanth - 22-JAN-2008

Speed Governor issue has resulted in strike of trucks and private buses - Are they are the only accident causing vehicles. What about high speed cars, bikes and SUVs? Are they not resulting in any accidents? Joy ride of these vehicles had made our roads deadly dangerous. Problem is day by day the BHPs and CCs of vehicles that are introduced in India are increasing like anything. Bikes are moving from 100cc to 150cc and now 200+ CCs producing more than 13-14 bhps and cars are moving from 800cc to 1,300+ CCs producing in excess of 100bhp. In olden days, there was a strict control in India for the CCs and BHPs of the vehicles launched. M800 producing 35bhp itself was felt very powerful at that time, now it is the least. Yamaha RX100 producing 11bhp was considered very powerful, now most of the bikes in the markets produce that. People in India do not have the discipline to handle these high powered vehicles. They drive recklessly resulting in increased number of accidents mostly which will turn fatal.

Rash driving - a policing issue

murali772 - 22-JAN-2008

Rash driving is essentially a policing issue. And, in this aspect, our BMTC drivers can give any call centre vehicle driver a run for his money alright. In fact, not a single day passes in Bangalore without some report or the other about rash driving by BMTC drivers, very often including fatalities. Even yesterday’s and today’s papers are full of the gory details.