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I had to drop the buses today and take Car, because of the fact that I do not have Direct buses from Kadubessnahalli to ITPL early in the morning 6.30 AM. I waited for 15 mins and no buses. Then had take the car.

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Dear BMTC team

Great job, I enjoyed the Volvo drive.  Please make the Bus day weekly instead of Monthly, I will ensure that will not take my car if I travel alone.

Regards

Murugan

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The bus ride was nice...but I will not be trading in a faster and less cumbersome car ride for a bus ride in the future unless I get better connectivity....

I stay in Kamanahalli and had to have someone drop me off to the ring road at Kalyan Nagar (not so convenient but Ok)...waited over 25 minutes for a Volvo and finally came across one that was bursting at its sides, I let it pass...another 20 minutes and another one came along....full but I mananged to get a seat near KR Puram....this again was not a direct bus to ITPL/Hope Farm (GR Tech Park is my work place) and so I had to change at Marathalli...the Connecting bus stops at Marathalli are a KM apart so I had to brave the sun for a 10 minute walk to the stop to catch a bus that would take me in the ITPL direction...many buses came along but most terminate at ITPL which is a good 20 minute walk to GR Tech Park which is about 1.5 KM away....finally managed to get a Volvo going towards Hope Farm and took it reached in 30 min....all and all about 1 hr 45 minutes to reach and alot of waiting and walking....Anyway this is a lesson and hopefully things will get better.

like I said comfortable while in the bus - but the connections and last mile were not to easy on me....wish I could take the bus more often cause i enjoyed reading while journeying to work...if only it was one bus right through....

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hi

there is a volvo bus 500db from hebbal to ITPL.. in that u dont have switch buses in Marathahalli.. the issue is frequency is not much check with the depot.. unfortuantely BMTC website is not updated/ and not user friendly..

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Hi all,

This is my first post to Praja. I live in Kammanahalli and work in an organisation in ITPL. I use the BMTC ITPL buses (Pushpaks) for my daily commute to office. So using the bus on Bus Day, i.e. 4th Feb last week was nothing new to me. :-)

The Bus Day was promoted with great fanfare by the Praja members and also the media in Bangalore. I also tried to convince a couple of my colleagues to switch to travelling by bus on Bus Day. On Bus Day, I found that one of my colleagues (whom I had tried to convince) had come by his car. The reason he gave me was that since he lived in Basava Nagar (which is about 2 kms from Airport Road), the auto drivers would charge him minimum Rs. 20 and he had also missed the BMTC bus (which apparently has a poor frequency) from Basava Nagar till Airport Road. The lack of last-mile connectivity thwarted his efforts to use the bus. This was actually one of the points raised in an earlier post that there should be a regular shuttle service from areas like Vignan Nagar, Basava Nagar, Thippasandra till the Old Airport Road. People can use these shuttles till Airport Road and then get into Big10-1 or Volvo's like 335P, 355E, 335T which have a very good frequency. The combination of shuttle for 2-3 kms (fares would be Rs.4 - 5) and Big 10 (Rs. 10 for a distance of 10-11 kms.) would actually work out to be quite cost-effective for most people.

Another colleague who lived in BEML Layout boarded a Whitefield-Marathahalli shuttle bus that day and paid Rs.10 for his ride till ITPL. He got a drop from his wife till the main road (AECS Layout/Brookefields). He found his ride in the bus to be quite comfortable and may actually continue with it.

Regarding Clive who also lives in Kammanahalli but works in GR Tech Park, Whitefield, well he could catch the 500DB Volvo that plies from Hebbal to Hope Farm as Prabha pointed out. But this bus has a very poor frequency, something like 1 bus in every 35-40 minutes. Also personally, I have an issue with the lengthy route that this bus takes. The route is Hebbal --> Kalyan Nagar --> K.R. Puram --> Marathahalli --> AECS Layout --> ITPL --> Hope Farm. Whereas the BMTC ITPL buses that I take generally go past K.R. Puram --> Mahadevpura (via Whitefield Road) --> Hoody --> ITPL. The extended route for 500DB takes about 80 minutes from Kalyan Nagar till ITPL whereas the BMTC ITPL bus takes about 40 minutes. Almost double the time is not acceptable even for a comfortable A/C ride. People generally are in a hurry to reach office in time and don't have the time for a nice joy ride. :-)  There is actually a direct bus route 601 from Kalyan Nagar bus stand till ITPL (and Hope Farm), but it is too crowded and less frequent for it to be a viable solution for most techies residing in the Hebbal/Kalyan Nagar area.

I personally feel that last-mile connectivity issues are actually easier to resolve. For example, even for the Kammanahalli area, BMTC could have a shuttle service from R.S. Palya (start of Kammanahalli Main Road) till Kamanahalli Ring Road Jn. There would be plenty of takers for this service. Resolving last-mile connectivity would actually be the low-hanging fruit that BMTC should first tackle.

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