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BMTC- new route proposal- need help from Praja
Written By ashok_n - 17 January, 2011
Bangalore BMTC Bannerghatta Road Bus Silk Board suggestion Routing Transportation public transport Gottigere
I would like the help of Praja members to get a new bus service from Gottigere (BG Road) to Silkboard.
Current:
Almost all the buses from Bannerghatta Road go to Majestic/Shivajinagar/KR Market. There are no buses which "turn right" at the Jayadeva Hospital junction (while coming from Bannerghatta side).
Commuters from Bannerghatta road have to get down at BTM check post (opp Shoppers stop) stop and walk 500m, after crossing two major roads to get to a bus stop for buses towards east (Koramangala, Silk board, Electronics City, Indira Nagar etc.).
In summary, no proper connection from Bannerghatta Road towards the eastern parts - Koramangala, ITPL, Old Airport road, Indira Nagar, E-City etc.
Proposed Solution: A short distance service from Gottigere to Silkboard.
Distance (One-way) - 10km
Estimated time for a one-way trip : 30 mins
Estimated time for a two-way trip : 60 mins
Proposed frequency : 15 mins
Number of buses required : 4 (definitely, non-volvo)
What is not proposed:
1. Point-to-point connections between Gottigere/Bannerghatta TTMC to any of the above. (If a single point-to-point bus is introduced, travel time will be long and frequency will reduced).
2. Bus starting from Bannerghatta TTMC. The area from Gottigere till the national park is mostly forest area and sparsely populated. Extending the bus till the TTMC will reduce the frequency without much advantage.
Whom to request in BMTC for such a service (email ids, websites, telephone numbers) ? How do I gather support for this?
COMMENTS
rackstar - 17 January, 2011 - 09:31
The route can even be upto Koramangala depot. Because lot of buses parked on road side in silk board. You are right, there should be right taking bus, that wont even congest the signal as there is right turing flyover on jayadeva junction.
ss87 - 17 January, 2011 - 09:55
Quite a required route. Its quite a bad state seeing so many peole get down adn walk all the way. Except the very rare 411J no other bus has a right turn there.
Gottigere is quite a viable option as it is one of the last areas having a good residenatial area on the road. But the road from Jayadeva to BTM is congested. May be route by way of IIM, Devarachikkanhalli, Kodichikkanhalli, Begur, silk board, up to Madiwala mosue can be viable as Madiwala mosque/koramangl awater tank is the last stop for routes of 201D and 201MA and hence changing over cannot be issue to. also you can change over to even Sarjapur bound buses at Koramangla Water Tank and even skip the ehavy congestion on IRR to some extent. Buses from depot-34 can be used considering their closeness to Bannerghatta Road
not only eastern but also western part of BLR
shashi kumar y - 17 January, 2011 - 10:00
I have called to BMTC officials many a times starting from APRIL'10 regularly for the connectivity from Bannergatta rd sector to ITPL, INDIRA NAGAR, MCTC, YESHWANTHPUR RAILWAY STATION................... but all in vain............ the only reply I get from them is " we can't provide buses from all patrts of bangalore to all other in turn". also they say that" this happens only during peak hours"
To that I have many a times challenged them stating that " You(officails) kindly do a survey starting from 7am to 9pm near the fly over stop. You will observe that almost 60% to 75% of passengers alight from the buses coming from Bannergatta rd side and the same i.e, buses coming from market or kbs and moving towards JD mara get crowded to full capacity at this stop".
Till now, they haven't listened to this. I'll challenge, the above statement of mine is true as I have personally suryed it.
Sir, if you need the contact numbers,, I'll inform the names of the officals whom u need to contact. You will get the phone no's in the BMTC WEBSITE: http://www.bmtcinfo.com/site/BSOfficersList.jsp ... Please click or copy paste this link.
Here are the concerned officials you need to contact.
K S Vishwanath, B V Srinivas, B.T.Mohan, B.G.S.R. Gowda, N A Khan,
Jagadeesh.K, Shymala S Muddodi.
Please do contact all the above... don't leave a single official.
Thanks. Hoping for the best
shashi kumar y - 17 January, 2011 - 10:05
ss87........ that's right.... the buses can have the starting point as JAMBUSAVARI Dinne too as the locality too has apartments in which IT People reside
idontspam - 17 January, 2011 - 07:21
The problem is in the change over and the solution should make that easier. I would have thought a better solution would be to make the stops closer to each other by moving existing stop or introducing another stop along with introducing pelican signals and skywalks which make the change over painless. Mark the spots on a map and we can discuss solutions.
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