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A non-stop Fast Public Transport Service on Elevated Road from Silkboard To Electronic City
Written By dvsquare - 19 April, 2011
Bangalore BMTC Hosur Road Bus Elevated Roads suggestion Electronics City Transportation public transport public transport Traffic
A few days back, I had to go to Electronics city with a friend of mine, I rarely go towards that side (Hosur Road) generally. And that was the first time, we took the Elevated Flyover over the Hosur Road. I thought of an idea/suggestion that if a BMTC mini-bus kind of vehicle can just do a to-and-fro from Start of the Flyover (near SilkBoard) and Electronics-City toll-post. It will be a non-stop service and will be very fast. The regular buses will still flow on the Hosur road with all the bus-stops. This will be very beneficial for the people coming from other regions (other than any stop on hosur road) and want to go to E-city. For eg, as people who stay in Koramangala or madivala, can come till sikboard (by public or private transport), and then take a non-stop public transport on that Elevated Flyover. It will have a numerous advantages-
(1) People who travel by private vehicles, can park their vehicles before Start of the flyover (something needs to be done for getting the parking space), and hop onto the non-stop public transport. It will be a little costly than the buses flowing down the road, but it will help in saving their time.
(2) People will be more encouraged to take the full public transport seeing so fast hassle free public transport on the elevated highway, they may be encouraged to take the full path on public transport, in that case we are even avoiding point-1 and as well as giving a good incentives to the citizens to take the bus.
(3) There will be less traffic on the roads in the E-City, because the day I travelled to E-city, I was impressed with the elevated road, but then thought, there are many apartment-buildings coming up in E-city, how the narrow lanes inside E-city will take that load. By this suggestion, we can atleast reduce the private vehicles traffic coming to E-city.
There may be many more such good points in favour of this idea, others can point out those too.
I am not very sure, how great this idea can be, I might have overlooked some obvious reason of non-feasiblity of the same. Provide your feedback on the same and if possible, lets push for it.
Deepak
COMMENTS
Sure, I will let you know, mostly yes.
dvsquare - 8 July, 2011 - 06:07
@Bheema,
Ya, I will be most interested, I will let you know about the same if nothing important/personal come at the same time.
You are planning on 16th July right?
Lets plan it then, I will mostly join you.
I will DM you my contact details, you send me yours as well.
Deepak
naveen_blr - 20 April, 2011 - 06:49
I have raised this many a times , BMTC using NICE/BETL it can add new routes or make some routes as non-stop buses for BETL/EC or atleast KSRTC can have non-stop buses for interstate commute. Think of people wanting to go to Tumkur from EC using NICE would be such a wonderful option. same goes with all other routes. but BMTC which is reducing the number of buses now doesnt want to think innovative.
blrpraj - 25 April, 2011 - 21:25
Definitely agree; I had proposed a similar system earlier but on a larger scale though and taking into account urb; take a look at this -
Entered the same request in the BMTC feedback on their website
dvsquare - 7 June, 2011 - 10:44
I have entered this request/feedback in BMTC's feedback system. Lets see what happens.
@Bheema, I think you have followed up with BMTC many times, any idea, how can I make them response to my feedback.
Following is the snapshot of the feedback to BMTC.
Complaints Regitration Details
Dear Deepak,
The following query has been registered with us.
Query Information TTNO BMTC-0620111611-4063 Topic Name Bus Route Problem Name Feedback on Route ComplaintWhy a non-stop Fast Public Transport Service on Elevated Road from Silkboard To Electronic City?
There are various advantages for having the above said route, for more details you can read it here - http://praja.in/en/blog/dvsquare/2011/04/19/non-stop-fast-public-transport-service-elevated-road-silkboard-electronic-c
Hope to have a constructive response from BMTC side.
Thanks
Deepak
Our team shall get back to you shortly. We thank you for your concern and support.
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Regards,
BMTC Team.
Deepak
naveen_blr - 5 August, 2011 - 17:08
I heard a bus has been started from SilkBoard to EC non-stop using BETL
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