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Written By murali772 - 26 March, 2008

Bangalore Road Safety BMTC public transport

Within the same week, there have been two instances of BMTC buses being involved in serious crashes, supposedly due to 'brake failure'. In one, the conductor died, even as many were injured, and quite seriously too, in both. Now, with the kind of advanced technologies that go into vehicle design and manufacture these days, one hardly hears of such happenings elsewhere. Very clearly, therefore, these mishaps are resulting out of the poor maintenance practices followed by BMTC - doesn't quite inspire much confidence amongst the public, particularly when it is poised to take on the additional responsibility of providing critical connectivity to the new airport. Ironically, also, even as these reports have appeared in the press, there is another about the conferrment of a 'Citizen Extraordinaire' award by a Rotary Club on the MD. Admittedly, extra-ordinary efforts are required to make a monopoly government organisation accountable! The above is the text of the letter sent to the press today. For more, read: http://traffic-transport-solutions.blogspot.com/

COMMENTS

state governments responsible for that

murali772 - 28 March, 2008 - 10:04

The current private operations in Bangalore, as well as in most other cities, are all by insiders (transport Dept officials, police, etc) and the riff-raff, quite like in the case of the notorious BLUELINE in Delhi also. That's why policy changes have to happen to facilitate the entry of the likes of TATA's and TVS. Read more at http://bangalore.praja.in/blog/murali772/2007/12/12/better-bussing-green-bangalore Muralidhar Rao

What about the horrible

George E Matthew - 26 March, 2008 - 18:31

What about the horrible maxi-cabs? Worse still, call center cabs. These are much more dangerous.

 

Volvo buses are quite clean and well maintined, even compared to IT company charted buses so this constant critique of BMTC is not reallly justified.

 

UNORGANIZED PRIVATE SECTOR must NEVER BE ALLOWED to be part of trasnport infrastructure-just travel in a maxi cab once, pay through your nose for the dirtiest, smelliest vehicle ever. The cost is almost as high as a Volvo and just look at the difference.

 

I agree that large corporates MAY do a better job but only if they are socially responsible like Tata. A dishonest self serving organization like Reliance will never do-they will only fleece the passengers.

 

I wish Mr Murli all the best in his work to improve public transport

Exactly BMTC needs little

pradeep - 27 March, 2008 - 16:27

Exactly BMTC needs little more improvents when its building new buses. If the Government had not allowed private bus operaters it would have made huge profits..Not only BMTC, even KSRTC is doing good. The private buses are real mess, they dont have speed regulations, no control on price of the money.. I suggest Govt to remove Private bus operaters from transporting the people.If they do so half of the traffic is reduced on all important roads.

 

Even with all these stiff competitions, traffic bottlenecks BMTC is making profits. Hats off to its employees..

long way to go

murali772 - 27 March, 2008 - 04:38

I am not denying that BMTC has improved, say from some 5 years back. But, Indian Airlines, BSNL, SBI, etc have improved by leaps and bounds after effective competition has come on. And, in as a vital infrastructure sector as Public Bus Transport services, we sorely need those kinds of competent forces at play. It is in BMTC's interest also Muralidhar Rao

Find Directions in Bangalore

santsub - 27 March, 2008 - 15:10

This is a link to find directions in Bangalore - on the lines of Google maps but its even better - has carpoolers info and more cool features.. http://www.btis.in/directions.htm Similarly links for Hyd and Chennai are below http://www.htis.in/directions.htm http://www.chennaitraffic.in/ for Chennai

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