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Written By manjari - 22 October, 2009

Bangalore BMTC Bus Need Help Transportation public transport Bus Day

For the bus day, one of the things in discussion is to block a few corridors and allow only buses. Does anyone have any idea which corridors can be used? Also there should be a possible diversion for the cars and auto etc to go.

It would be very helpful if it can be mapped on a google map.

We need suggestion by tomorrow evening so that the plan can be proposed. Please give suggestions.

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Outer ring road After Sarjapur Road Junction - Marathalli Bridge

Vasanth - 22 October, 2009 - 16:57

 Stretch where ORR has got service road can be made a dedicated bus lane. Daily lots of cars gets accumulated here and lots of cars take even the service road. Stretch between service road and the median can be made bus dedicated.

Lots of people are taking Volvos and other buses. Most of the ITPL buses like 333P and 500 series run full. Why not dedicated lanes to ease the commute of many travelling in buses.

bus day

vidyasirsi - 23 October, 2009 - 07:17

It’s a great idea to have dedicated bus lanes.  But first we need to make it work. Few simple actions can be taken to improve the traffic.  Should try this out on bus day.

  1. Do not allow parking for autos cars or any other vehicle on the bus lane
  2. Do not allow autos to drop or pick-up passengers  on bus lane.
  3. Fruit & Vegetable push carts cannot be in the bus lanes  
  4. Where ever the roads are wide,  make double bus lanes for buses to overtake each other,
  5. buses should only travel in their designated lanes
Later it can be looked at how plan a bus route where by they should only make left turns

Bus lanes/bi-directional bus movements

Arun - 23 October, 2009 - 09:36

 

Some of the streets that I feel should be made bi-directional for buses –
 
Corridor 1
  1. Palace Road –
Maharani’s Circle to Mysore Bank Circle (have you noticed that there is no provision for right turn at Maharani’s on top of the new underpass if Seshadri Road is made bi-directional); this is a no-parking street and bus lanes are possible as the road has been widened too
  1. KG Road –

Mysore Bank Circle to Corporation;

 
Corridor 2
St.Mark’s Road –
  1. Cash Pharmacy to Anil Kumble Junction (parking to be removed)
 
Corridor 3
Kasturba Road
  1. Coffee Day Junction to Corporation Circle
 
Corridor 4
Richmond/Residency area
  1. Residency Road –
Mayo Hall to Richmond Circle
  1. Richmond Road –
Richmond Circle to Victoria Road cross (just before the captured Army Tank)
 
Corridor 5
JC Road area
  1. Minerva Circle to Lalbagh Gate (near MTR)
  2. JC Road – Corporation Circle to Minerva Circle
 
Currently buses move in the opposite direction under a mix use pattern on the above roads; the proposed movements are only for buses. In fact, not too long ago, buses were moving on KG Road from Mysore Bank Circle to Corporation Circle and on Ulsoor Police Station Road.

remember - ideas for bus day

silkboard - 23 October, 2009 - 13:18

Sorry, but just so that we don't get into specifics, this is about what can be suggested for a bus day event, a single day event.

Arun, good ideas there. Experimenting with two way ONLY for buses on those routes could be tried on the bus day. But it may confuse regular commuters as the buses will have to take slightly different route and skip some stands.

Another idea, may be easier to pull off

silkboard - 22 October, 2009 - 14:04

will be great if this can be pulled off. But at least on the east side, main corridors don't have parallel roads that can be used as alternate routes for cars etc on that day. Airport Road, Old Madras Road, ITPL/Mahadevapura main road, Varthur Road - these are the roads where bus day will have impact. But can't think of alternate routes here.

One possibility would be to Take some stretches of Airport Road (or any corridor), and make bus dedicated lanes only for the bus day.

Like in Marathahalli - throughout Mhalli, railway bridge, market area - make one lane towards ITPL in morning, and one lane going in to the city bus only, can use plastic cone like thingies. See below

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I am sure on other corridors also there will be crowded points like these where 1-bus-lane experiment can be tried on the bus day.

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