First and Last Mile connects for BMTC

silkboard - 19-SEP-2013

This is a book page to hold together discussions on these subjects related to BMTC

• First and Last mile connectivity to BMTC routes
• Usage of minibuses by BMTC
• Planning and routing of feeder or local shuttle services by BMTC

BMTC's encouraging mini bus talk - good going Mr Parwez

silkboard - 19-SEP-2013

Amidst all the press that BMTC is getting recently, one thing that caught attention was talk of mini buses, shuttles and feeder routes. As we all know, feeder plans, and solid execution of first/last mile connects can help increase usage of BMTC as well as (future) metro.

Here are the bytes I have picked up (read in print, so don't have links handy, will search and add later)

BMTC (Dis)connective route

srinirao - 28-AUG-2012

To the BMTC's Public grevience cell, Bangalore.

Dear Sir,

Daily i have to commute to work from Hebbal Kempapura (Diary Gate stop, Esteem Mall) to Marath Halli bridge using BMTC buses. There are plenty of good bus facility available at Hebbal Ring Road to Marath Halli, Thanks to BMTC for providing good number of buses.

Minibus that BMTC needs for local shuttles?

silkboard - 6-FEB-2012

Some of us think that operating local shuttles as the last mile / local connect option will help bring more people from deeper areas to the trunk routes, and thus make public transport better. However, BMTC folks don't find local shuttles to be viable. One reason given for un-viability is minibus design.

"Local Trains" will reduce traffic on road and commute time

prabhudevbm - 25-NOV-2011

Dear Respected All,

Feeder Bus Service - Malleswaram Example

rs - 20-OCT-2011

This Feeder Bus service is a very good idea. I hope it is successful. But how about suggesting to BMTC to create a local Feeder bus service in several areas. For example. In Mall-eswaram, there will soon be two huge Malls at both ends - Mantri and Brigade. They could provide a service which goes as follows.

Suggestions for Metro Feeder Bus routes

Naveen - 11-DEC-2010

BMTC had earlier requested suggestions for feeder bus routes for Metro (Reach-1). The suggestions were mapped on google & passed on to them for review. See map below, zoom in for better view or click link and view in google maps

Minibuses for better area coverage

Naveen - 23-OCT-2010

The following request has been forwarded to BMTC to consider operation of minibuses :

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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?

March 4 Bus Day - New shuttles - Bagmane, Indiranagar, Domlur, Koramangala

vinod_shankar - 2-MAR-2010

BMTC is announcing new local shuttle routes for March 4 Bus Day. Instead of smaller multiple local feeder loops, we have a largish loop covering Indiranagar, Domlur and Koramangala. Frequency promised is 10 minutes, so that will help.