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The adieu to the Majestic bus stand!
Written By srinidhi - 20 April, 2010
Bangalore Bus KSRTC Analysis Majestic Transportation public transport metro Satellite Stations
"Kempe Gowda or Majestic bus station may soon become history as the government has initiated the process of decentralization of the bus terminals.
Soon after setting up of the satellite terminals, around 200-300 KSRTC buses will ply from each of the terminals. "Each of the new terminal at an estimated cost of Rs 15-20 crore is expected to take about a year for construction," he added.
However, Ashoka said the Majestic bus stand will be revived once work on the Metro is complete. But it will cease to be a centralized terminus for all buses, since a part of the land will be handed over to BMRC for Metro station. "
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The hub and spoke model that Majestic/Market/Shivajinagar has, that we all felt was not scalable and useful, is finally seems to be dying its natural death with the metro coming in!
However there is lot of work to be done. Mr Ashok makes a generic statement..
"we will take up construction of 10 more satellite stations across Bangalore depending on land availability"
I believe the focus should be more to build a synergy with the metro and have BMTC as the feeder and KSRTC having all its operations exclusively from the TTMC's only!
COMMENTS
srinidhi - 21 April, 2010 - 06:41
...KSRTC is moving its bus stand to TTMC's and satellite bus stands and hopefully the depot also moves with it..then possibly we will be seeing reduction in bus traffic at majestic by atleast half, if not more.
Then why do we need such a big facility..can we not make place for gardens and lakes..
Has any traffic study done to plan the capacity?
Remember it was a lake bed that the current bus stand stands.. I still remember fairs being held on this lake bed few years ago!
pathykv - 22 April, 2010 - 06:17
Majestic Underpass
The bus/train commuters using this underpass are grateful to the Transport Minister for having ordered the sprucing up of the same. (TOI dt. 21st April).
However the woes of the users go deeper as this ill-designed underpass with numerous steps, curves, sloping passages (which get slippery in wet weather) is not at all user-friendly. It takes more than 45 minutes for a commuter to negotiate from bus platform to train platform or vice-versa, the hardship being all the more for senior citizens, women and children carrying luggage.
The use of this underpass should be minimised by re-routing the BMTC buses along the road between the bus/railway stations with suitable bus bays (as is done at Chennai Central Station) to enable the commuters to board/alight easily '.
BMTC should also run Volvo services to the City station on the lines of the Airport services by diverting the present Volvo buses via the railway station.
The Transport Minister should instruct BMTC to implement the above soon in coordination with Traffic Police and South Western Railway.
K.V.Pathy
Naveen - 25 April, 2010 - 10:15
Srinidhi,
KSRTC & BMTC bus terminals will remain at Majestic, but will be scaled down since some part of their land is being handed over to BMRC for Metro facilities. Since there isn't enough space for these bus terminals for future expansion, new satellite terminals are being created which will help reduce congestion.
Majestic bus terminals are necessary at the same location to help inter-modal transfers since inter-city rail & Metro rail stations will also be nearby.
mohan anekal - 14 July, 2010 - 17:11
All the bus stations in teh city must be made as flow in flow out, which should stop only for a limited time - say 3 minutes.
In many cases at the KG bus stand, the buses are parked in the platform in a hapazard manner, and the drivers are not to be seen. This creates un necessary mess. At times, teh blockage of the station is so bad that the buses will be lined up all along the road upto the bridge.
The two arms of the trip could be merged. Say, instead of running Majestic- yelahanka and Majestic Electronics city, a single bus should ply between yelahanka and Electronics city via Majestic/Shivajinagar/Market/shantinagar, which would stop for about 2 minutes at Majestic/Shivajinagar/Market/Shantinagar.
Managing the traffic on the outskirts is far better than in the heart of the city.
All TTMCs should be planned on teh major highways/roads on the outskirts-Athibele/Bannerughatta/Anekal/sarjapura/Kadugodi/Hosakote/Bagalur/Yelahanka/Hesaraghatta/Nelamangala/Magadi road/Bidadi/Utharahalli/, etc. The network should have the strong grid along the periphery and in turn integrated through KBS/Shantinagar/Shivajinagar/Market/Mysore road terminal/Yeshwantpur terminal.
All black board buses could be made as an internal network across the old city area.
Volvo routes are a lot confusing. The bus that will be 335E while entering Majestic will become 45 or 287 or 276 on entry. If a person travelling from HAL to Vidyaranyapura on 335E he will not have the information that the same bus would continue to Vidayaranyapura, and hence would get down at Majestic. This causes hardship esp. for senior citizens and physically handicapped.
Mejestic Metro station disconnected, MP Visit
Sanjeev - 17 September, 2017 - 14:29
Today, PC Mohan had a detailed inspection of the area around #Majestic which is the hub of public transport, to understand the ground realities.
The KSRTC terminus, BMTC bus stand, and Railway station need to have seamless integration with the KBS metro station.
He found that there are many gaps that can be easily set right if all the stake holders work together
Inspite of so many months over, BMRCL does not feel the pain of commuters and sorry state during rains & hot summer
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