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Bangalore is moving away from BMTC Buses : Bus-stop removed to ease traffic
Written By Sanjeev - 11 June, 2012
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To ease traffic congestion on Bellary Road connecting the city and Bengaluru International Airport, the traffic police have removed the BMTC bus-stop situated near the Air Force Headquarters Training Command on Bellary Road.
A press release said commuters, from Sunday, can use the bus-stops near the CBI office or the one on Ramana Maharshi Road, opposite the Palace Grounds.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article3509916.ece
How come Traffic Police have done such bad thing which was unexpected from Dr M A Salem. This will really make idiffcult for all commuters arround Meckri Circle. By moving Bus stop to CBI office, effectively Traffic police have ensured that Citizens do not use BMTC buses between BDA junction upto Sanjayanagar entrance.
Distance between CBI office Bus stop and the one on Ramana Maharshi Road, opposite the Palace Grounds will be nearlly 3 Kms
Meckri Circle is Major junction for Commuters who wants to go to Shivaji Nagar / Yesvanthpur / Malleshwaram / Majestic
After all for whose benefit have they done ??? for the Private vechiles, City Taxies, Auto's & Private Intercity buse operators so that they can move very fast & Commuter by BMTC buse are at receving end. So its clear that even so called Bangalore Traffic Police do not care for Commuters in Bangalore and they are more interested in Vechile managment.
Next axe will be at Hebbal after Flyover, opposite to Esteem Mall : Once Elevated corridor for NH-7 gets open, so called Bangalore Traffic Police will shift BMTC Bus stop opposte to Esteem mall to Kodigehalli entrance, so effectivly, Commuters will not have buse facility between Hebbal - Kodigehalli.
COMMENTS
Mekri Circle is an important Bus Stop
Vijay Srinivas - 12 June, 2012 - 10:14
Mekri Circle is an important bus stop for the purpose of people travelling to Yelahanka & Devanahalli. If this bus stop is removed, it would put many commuters, especially those coming from Shivajinagar and Yeshwantpur into hardship, since Yelahanka is already a bus-starved area.
If the traffic police harass the bus commuters like this instead of promoting the already-insufficient Public Transport, how do you expect more and more people to travel by bus?
idontspam - 12 June, 2012 - 13:05
Little further is not correct CBI jn is almost 2 kms from Mekhri circle. I agree about BIA buses, now you have to catch them at CBI jn for the same benefits & not at Ramana Maharishi stop. I am not sure if they stop at CBI jn because I catch them at Hebbal.
I dont like the shifting but trying to establish a case of which bus I will miss if this was shifted. I can foresee I will miss all buses going to sanjaynagar from CNR rao jn, unless those buses stop on top of Mekhri circle before they turn to Bellary. All other connections are still valid.
On the flip side, now the unscientific "Nahni trap" U turn into Sanjaynagar from south bound traffic is going to be a death trap with uninterrupted fast flow from the AFTC choke point.
With this Valvo Buse stop for BIAL will be moved out
Sanjeev - 11 June, 2012 - 11:48
This bus stop was mainly used for all Airport Commuters to catch the Valvo BMTC Buses and public going towards Yelahanka, Devanahalli, Chikballapur, Doddballapur, Battryanapura.
So in effect this type will discourage more commuters of using BMTC buses in coming days. Already we are seeing how money was wasted on TTMC's and with further unfriendly Bangalore Traffic Acts like this will esnure that Bangalore moves to Private Vechiles soon.
rs - 11 June, 2012 - 13:07
This is really stupid - as Sanjeev pointed out - this is the most useful bus stop for airport buses as all the airport buses pass through here. Often I have taken an auto to here and then a bus to the airport. Just because of some screw up in the position and management of the bus stand they have inconvenienced a lot of people. The could, for example, move the bus stand slightly further down and build a usable bus bay.
Ramesh
faiqg - 12 June, 2012 - 06:24
Slightly off topic.
On Old Airport Road opposite Total Mall, the bus stop was removed. This was at the time when new bus stop designs were being brought in. But that program halted for whatever reason. On retrospection if you see the spot where this bus stop was, now there is a commercial building. And if this bus stop existed where it was, entrance to this building would have been difficult, if not impossible. Even if you reject it as a conspiracy theory, can it not be possible that the bus stop was removed on the pretext of redesign and was never reconstructed to aid the builder?
Thankfully the buses stop there but the commuters have to bear rain and sun.
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