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Written By sprint_raj - 21 October, 2009
Bangalore BMTC Bus Volvo Complaint Transportation public transport
Introduction of Vajra services in Bangalore has been one of phenomenal step taken by BMTC. It has really helped lot of people especially women to travel with ease in Bangalore. BMTC has introduced lot of Volvo buses with appropriate frequencies for most of the areas in Bangalore. Its obviously an elcome step.
People of almost all the aresa are happy except the people of Mathikere who feels left out. Out of more than 300 - 400 Volvo buses running every day in Bangalore doesn't bother to touch Mathikere at all. The only bus provided to Mathikere is 500KB to ITPL which takes its on sweet time to reach ITPL. Rather than being convenience to the daily commuters, it looks like 500KB is more suitable to new comers to Bangalore who are interested in site seeing, because it goes round and round over Bangalore to reach ITPL.
No Volvo from Mathikere to Majestic, Not even to Shivajinagar, no appropriate bus to ITPL, No bus to Electronic City. No Bus to MG Road.
Whereas I have seen buses from Majestic to Hebbal in hich most of the times I have not seen more than 5 passegers.
Vidyaranyapura buses are diverted via New BEL road, again which has very less commuters to Mathikere. hy this discrimination. Arent people of Mathikere paying fares. If that is the case please bring this out to public or govt notice. Why devoid people of Mathikere of this important Service?
COMMENTS
Sunil Kumar - 22 October, 2009 - 11:00
I am also awaiting to see when will BMTC launch any Vajra towards RT Nagar. Its very strange to notice BMTC running 500KB from Mathiekere to ITPL via Vijaynagar. The same route can be started from Matherikere reach Outer Ring Road @ BEL & proceed via the Ring Road to ITPL which will be a far far shorter route from Mathiekere to ITPL. It will help a lot of employees in that route too. Totally accept on the point that they are making profit on the Vajra's. If you notice the Number of 335E,331A,356,360B,201R are growing day by day & most often they are all jam packed. Trust in the vision of BMTC to have 1000 buses by 2011 will help RT Nagar with some Vajra's.
sprint_raj - 22 October, 2009 - 11:21
Agree that Vajra services are costly. But you normally have a greater chances of getting a seat or atleast stand comfortably. Moreover in Bangalore e have different people of different capability. If you distribute the crowd on basis of crowd, then also its a fair deal. The person paying higher can also get a seat and can thus help the other group hich is paying lower to travel without the extra crowd.
And regarding the speed of volvo buses, I dont have any comments because I feel they are most of the time faster. Its not because of the speed of the volvo buses, its just because of the traffic that they are slow.
Annd regarding the crowd, that can be still maintained by introducing ne buses( though it will not resolve the issue completely). But only during peak office hours ( especially in the evening) they are crowded), but most of the time almost all the seats are empty
vinod_shankar - 22 October, 2009 - 13:48
Recently i tried to map the volvo services on a map based only on the routes put up on the BMTC webssite without taking into account the frequency of the services. Its quite startling that the high end volvo services are concentrated only to the south and west of bangalore. I wonder why the bias?? This isn't something new considering the BMLTA had indicated in one of its reports the skew in BMTC services. This not just the case with volvos. Even most of the normal buses have a higher frequency on the south and the west of bangalore.
From the mapping i did on the volvos, this is finding below. considering bangalore as clock, the BMTC volvos serve only 2 quadrants effectively and don't bother about the rest...
vinod_shankar - 23 October, 2009 - 05:07
Route name origin Destination No. of buses 1 VAJRA-002 Kempegowda Bus Stand JP Nagara 6th Phase 4 2 VAJRA-045G Kempegowda Bus Stand Basaveshwara Nagara New Bus Stand 2 3 VAJRA-195 Shivaji Nagara Bus Station Chandra Layout 6 4 VAJRA-201G Banashankri Bus Station Jeevan Bhima Nagara 1 5 VAJRA-201R Sri Nagara Bus Station C.V. Raman Nagara 11 6 VAJRA-210A Kempegowda Bus Stand ISRO Layout 2 7 VAJRA-210IA Kempegowda Bus Stand Chikkalasandra Bus Stand 1 8 VAJRA-210NB Uttara Halli Kempegowda Bus Stand 4 9 VAJRA-250I Kempegowda Bus Stand Chikka Banawara 4 10 VAJRA-258C Kempegowda Bus Stand Nelamangala 8 11 VAJRA-276 Kempegowda Bus Stand Vidyaranyapura 5 12 VAJRA-276G Vidyaranyapura Electronic City 4 13 VAJRA-285M Cauveri Bhavan Doddaballapura 4 14 VAJRA-319C Kempegowda Bus Stand Kadugodi Bus Stand 3 15 VAJRA-328M Kempegowda Bus Stand Gunjur 2 16 VAJRA-331A Shivaji Nagara Bus Station Kadugodi Bus Stand 8 17 VAJRA-333P Kempegowda Bus Stand I.T.P.L 9 18 VAJRA-333R Kempegowda Bus Stand Marath Halli Bridge 5 19 VAJRA-333T Nagarabhavi Circle Marath Halli Bridge 6 20 VAJRA-333Z Mahalakshmi Layout Entrance I.T.P.L 4 21 VAJRA-335E Kadugodi Bus Stand Kempegowda Bus Stand 29 22 VAJRA-335T Basaveshwara Nagara New Bus Stand I.T.P.L 4 23 VAJRA-340T HSR Layout CPWD Qtrs Basaveshwara Nagara New Bus Stand 6 24 VAJRA-356C Kempegowda Bus Stand Electronic City 12 25 VAJRA-356M Kempegowda Bus Stand Anekal Bus Stand 4 26 VAJRA-356N Kempegowda Bus Stand Narayana Hrudayalaya 10 27 VAJRA-356P Basaveshwara Nagara New Bus Stand Electronic City 4 28 VAJRA-356Q Kempegowda Bus Stand Electronic City Wipro Gate 4 29 VAJRA-360B Kempegowda Bus Stand Attibele 16 30 VAJRA-362E Shivaji Nagara Bus Station Electronic City 3 31 VAJRA-365 Kempegowda Bus Stand Swastik Talkies 14 32 VAJRA-365P Kempegowda Bus Stand Anekal Bus Stand 3 33 VAJRA-375A Kengeri Housing Board Quarters Electronic City 6 34 VAJRA-402B Kempegowda Bus Stand Yelahanka Sattelite Town 5th Phase 3 35 VAJRA-402T Yelahanka Sattelite Town 5th Phase I.T.P.L 2 36 VAJRA-411K Swastik Talkies I.T.P.L 2 37 VAJRA-411L Shanthi Nagara Bus Station Kadugodi Bus Stand 4 38 VAJRA-500A Banashankri Bus Station Hebbal 4 39 VAJRA-500D Hebbal Central Silk Board 4 40 VAJRA-500DA Yelahanka Sattelite Town 5th Phase Electronic City 2 41 VAJRA-500DB Hebbal Hope Farm 4 42 VAJRA-500K Vijaya Nagara Bus Stand I.T.P.L 23 43 VAJRA-500KA ISKCON Temple I.T.P.L 2 44 VAJRA-500KB Chowdeshwari Bus Station (JP Park) I.T.P.L 5 45 VAJRA-500KC NAGARABHAVI BDA COMPLEX I.T.P.L 1 46 VAJRA-500KM I.T.P.L KALYANI MAGNUM 3 47 VAJRA-500KR BEML Maingate I.T.P.L 2 48 VAJRA-500KS KHB Quarters Kadugodi Bus Stand 2 49 VAJRA-500N Vijaya Nagara Bus Stand I.T.P.L 3 50 VAJRA-500P Chikkalasandra Bus Stand I.T.P.L 2 51 VAJRA-500W I.T.P.L ISRO Layout 2 52 VAJRA-505 Electronic City I.T.P.L 8 53 VAJRA-505A Domlur Bus Station Electronic City Wipro Gate 4 54 VAJRA-600K Vijaya Nagara Bus Stand Narayana Hrudayalaya 6 55 VAJRA-600KA Vijaya Nagara Electronic City 1 56 VAJRA-600KC NAGARABHAVI BDA COMPLEX Electronic City 1 57 VAJRA-600M Chikkalasandra Bus Stand Electronic City Wipro Gate 2 58 VAJRA-JPV10 Kempegowda Bus Stand Avalahalli BDA Park 1 59 VAJRA-V-BIG-10-2 Brigade Road Electronic City 4 60 VAJRA-V2K Kempegowda Bus Stand KALYANI MAGNUM 2 Total Schedules 307
Except for vajra 276G from vidyaranyapur-electronic city, none cross the north, north-east of the city. considering only 4 buses used on this route, I'm the frequency is every 1 hour or more.
Regards,
vinod
Vajra service - HIT ....... BIG HIT
myousuff - 21 October, 2009 - 13:37
Sprint raj,
Vajra services are unworthy of travelling........... What..???????
> Its expensive - I paid RS 40 from EC to Wilson garden. Wow..... 3.2 times more than BMTC.
> Sometimes I think i can walk and reach earlier. Very slow, The driver literally scared to proceed more than 40 km/h.
> BMTC and pushpak has equally comfort seats as in Volvo ( okay okay.......... leg room is more in VOLVO).
> irrespective of exorbitant fair, the bus is crowded, wherein I have to wait for my turn to sit even after paying excessive amount. ( Grrrrrrrrrrr. ).
> The officials are much happier to see the large red buses travelling around with a good margin of profit. ( What........?? i can hardly see any BMTC buses in EC, Bannerghatta Road or hosur road.... obviously its a hit..!!!!!!?
Mathikere residents should be happy enough to see some savings at the EOD.
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