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Written By Ravi_D - 16 February, 2011
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The (45 Storey?) Inter Modal Transit Center seems to be taking some shape. Snippets from today's DH Report.
The State Government has shortlisted eight firms for the Rs 1,300-crore Integrated Mass Transport System (IMTS) project proposed on a public-private partnership (PPP) model at Majestic in the City.
The project envisages linking of all forms of transport –– the BMTC, KSRTC, Metro and the Railways –– besides creating parking space for more than 3,000 cars near the City railway station.
Ashoka said work to construct the 45-storeyed integrated system at Majestic would begin by December this year.
Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) Managing Director Syed Zameer Pasha said the construction could only begin after the completion of the work on the Metro.
KSRTC Managing Director Gaurav Gupta said: “The 45-storey building (that Ashoka had spoken about earlier) is an artistic impression. We will have to see how the new structure can come up once one of the companies is finalised.”
Minister says work begins in Dec, while BMTC thinks it can only start after metro is complete. KSRTC doesn't seem to be aware of the exact plan. I'm confused, and really concerned. If the first line stake-holders of the facility don't know what is being done, what should we, the real users and the tax payers, expect?
COMMENTS
srinidhi - 31 July, 2015 - 02:45
"The Kempegowda Bus Station, popularly known as Majestic, may not be renovated into an Inter Modal Transit Centre (IMTC) anytime soon. Sources told TOI that the project to convert the bus terminus into a multi-level transit hub giving access to intra-city and inter-city buses, Metro and railway network, has been put off for now.
But Majestic cannot be left choking with hundreds of buses arriving and waiting to depart. So BMTC has taken up a programme to decongest the area. To begin with, it has reduced 200 schedules (400 trips) to, fro and via Majestic. There were 12,600 trips every day here till a month ago."
more from todays news paper here
What happened to the plans of Big Trunk bus routes? Direction based routing is the only smart way of addressing the mess we have for bus transport in the city now..
Lack of co-ordination btw PT providers(BMRCL/BMTC/KSRTC) has costed a lot for the city already..where we have metro stations very far from main Bus terminals..its high time all sit down at one place to decide the best way!
naveen_blr - 17 February, 2011 - 07:03
Parking would basically be used by people from places unaccessible by BMTC/Metro/Railways/KSRTC & their staff,hotlers i guess which need to get in pretty early in the morning.
Ravi_D - 16 February, 2011 - 08:30
Here is the link to the design brief on KSRTC website. Has the split up for 1300cr mentioned above, and talks of a 55 storey commercial tower. Some artistic views are in there too, and we've seen them in bits and pieces in the past. Interestingly, the number of bus bays for KSRTC doesn't change much (from current 95 to 96), but BMTC gets a bit of a boost (74 to 96).
naveen_blr - 17 February, 2011 - 06:02
Do we really need this one?
Could we just have a BMTC Stand here & get the 100acre Race Course land for KSRTC bus stand?
Getting everything under one roof is surely a good idea but wont this get more traffic inside the city?
Do we need to bifarcate the traffic to the outskirts?BMTC has large tracts of land near Peenya.
srinidhi - 17 February, 2011 - 06:45
we dont need a full fledged KSRTC/BMTC bus stand at Majestic at all with the metro coming into the picture..metro will and needs to completely change the PT usage patterns in our city!
Enough we got all busses BMTC/KSRTC into majestic..the old hub/spoke model is a no no!
Also there was a comment on SSC which said that they are planning more than 3000 cars parking at the new ITMC..this is again not needed..as said by Sivasailam himself..metro will need large parking at the end stations only..intermediate stations like this ITMC does not need that much parking!
Talking of KSRTC users who park overnight today..lets take a scenario..I used to do trips to Tirupati from Majestic..I would get my two wheeler into Majestic and park overnight..and pickup the vehicle after coming back the next day!
Once metro goes live..all I will need to do is use metro to get to Byp and take the tirupati bus from the KSRTC stand there and come back the same way!
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