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BMTC - Extending the monopoly
Written By idontspam - 18 July, 2010
Bangalore BMTC Autorickshaw Bus Analysis Last Mile Transportation public transport
Quoting myself from an earlier post "I predict the irrelevance of the auto in the transport scheme within the next 5 years."
Nanos may push autos out of B’lore
Looks like we dont have to wait 5 years for my prediction
But we have a new problem on our hands, extension of the monopoly in city transport. It will become dangerous if they use public money to undercut their prices.
Instead tie up with disorganized taxi companies and offer revenue sharing scheme on providing last mile. BMTC can even count the passengers ferried by the taxi companies to their buses if they make a distinct ticket & let the taxi issue them. This feeder mechanism can be leveraged by BMRC & BCRAL (the commuter rail authority) as well like envisaged by the dept.
BMTC seems to have thrown the ball for last mile & feeder away from its court. This can be detrimental if they believe they can continue to operate the way they are and end up duplicating metro routes and diminishing the value of the other mass transport systems instead of supplementing them.
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So politics enters..............
Public Agenda - 18 July, 2010 - 17:03
answer is Nano is not selling well and nor is the reslae price good if noticed
After the Gujarat govt is alleged to have given a long term subsidy + land = Rs.30,000 crs then maybe the job of a profiteer monopoly to bail out both the Govt of Gujart and also the Tatas thru sales
so lets look beyond to the politics and the LINK is BJP govt in both states, and Nano factpry at Sanand rolling out 10-20,000 cars / year.
So what happens if they are not sold Does the Govt bail it out big time
TVS, Bajaj etc will nto be happy but 10,000 more cars on the road in the next 5-7 years just becoz no one else will buy? Pathetic,,,,,
State sector bailing out the private why? because the state is a PARTNER in growth?
Public Agenda - 18 July, 2010 - 17:56
Cities need to play an increasing role so what about the worldwide heatwave. The Global is very close to the local. so shd big buisness continue this at all? cut down on auto car production, away from dependence on big oil
Lets change tack to non powered cycle rickshaws not like those in Oxford, England but maybe in Malaya, neighbourhood may give safer travel.
Climate change offsets? shd we not change lifestyles to a restructured future in a city.
not Carbon prcing and trading ? but Urban food production
Because just as much as mobility, we will need to feed the popln of an urbanised future?
Carbon footprints of cities will have to reduce the NUTP points to that but are the car owning citizens ready to do that
idontspam - 18 July, 2010 - 18:06
Climate change offsets?
No I actually meant business offsets, like in defense offsets.
idontspam - 18 July, 2010 - 04:43
Further car based last mile erodes cost advantage of PT, reducing the incentive to PT move and the move towards pedestrian friendly city. This may also make BMTC complacent to making the much needed route rationalization happen. Of course if it is a regular point to point taxi service it raises the question of the governments move into this area when they are being pushed to get out of airlines business and they do PPP for city/suburban trains anyway.
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