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BMTC route changes in the recent month
Written By ss87 - 22 February, 2012
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In collaboration with the Bangalore Traffic police, following changes have been made in BMTC routes in Bangalore city
Diversion 1: Netkallapa circle, Basavanagudi
Route No. 60's and 3's running from Basavanagudi towards Jayanagar now do not circler Netkallapa circle but run straight on KR road and take left near bharati nursing home signal to continue further towards south end circle
Route No. 210's running via TR nagar and NR colony turn left on DVG road to Nagasandra circle, continue on Kr road and turn back again towards TR nagar main road
Diversion 2: Richmond circle
Buses coming from shivajinagar moving towards Jayanagar do not stop at the Richmond circle junction as before-its also been reported that the buses take a narrow lane after turning right from Vittal Mallya road to join Mission road anc continue further onto KH road towards shantinagar bus stand
Diversion 3: BTM ring Road
Buses on route no. 201 running towards Koramangla now tuen left at udupi Gardend and proceed further down on Tavarekere main roiad to join Hosur Road near Madiwala check post and continue towards St. johns where it takes a right to reach Koramangla Water tank
any more changes made??
COMMENTS
pathykv - 24 February, 2012 - 07:14
The buses from Shivajinagar to Indiranagar side (139, 314 etc) used to go via Parsee temple/Ind. Exp .stop.
Now they are going directly via Infantry/ Hospital road.and do not go to the Parsee temple stop.
K.V.Pathy
For ITPL, more fleet is needed.
Vasanth - 9 March, 2012 - 05:56
BMTC needs to add more fleet to ITPL. They are trying to get maximum output with minimum input at the risk of passengers and conductors. With the kind of IT population currently working and the rate of growth, we need a good frequency of buses especially morning hours towards ITPL and evening after 6PM outwards ITPL. After 6PM, buses from ITPL do not have even place to stand.
Our IT folks also have false prestige. A normal parisaravahini will be less crowded compared to Volvo, but no one wants to take it during night hours when Volvos do no even have place to stand.
rs - 2 March, 2012 - 07:35
I came accross this article in the Bangalore Mirror today
It seems BMTC wants to ply busses thought Brigade road. While in iteself its not such a bad idea, if they do it under the current traffic conditions on Brigade road it will be a complete disister. The only way it is feasable is if they ban all other vehicles on Brigade Road.
In fact, I cannot understand why the city doesnt do this. Its a very simple thing - just divert all traffic coming from Kamaraj road on to MG road and make them take a right at Mayo Hall on to Residency road and then Hosur Road. Most traffic wants to go to Hosur Road and think they HAVE to go through Brigade Road, which is a complete mess. And of course they made the whole road pedestrian.
Vasanth - 8 March, 2012 - 09:47
Offlate, BMTC has reduced the Vajras bound to ITPL. They have mostly provided those buses to Manyata Tech Park and ORRCA shuttles. With the reduced fleet, all the ITPL bound buses are so crowded and the charm and comfort of travelling in Volvo is going away with no difference to ordinary buses except for a little speed.
I used to take 500K regularly. There was a 500K every 5 minutes during morning peak hours between 8AM to 9AM. Nowadays it has reduced to only one bus for 20-30 minutes and these buses are overcrowded. Apart from that we could see variants of 500K like 500KB, 500KR which has disappeared.
With all these changes, passengers will start going away to other modes of transport due to high price and discomfort.
BMTC is not looking into customer demands / Bus day is show off
Sanjeev - 8 March, 2012 - 13:00
As the Bus Day which was started to get the feedback from customer and improve the awarness has fizzeled out with Govt of Karnataka in fire fighting mode.
What did they do after the Bus day experiment. I do't see any big difference. Even Bangalore Traffic Police, BBMP, BMRCL & BDA should have joined hands with BMTC to improve the difficulty faced by passengers like
Poor Footpaths, No street lights at Junctions, Footover bridges, safe crossing at major junctions like Hebbal flyover, KR Pruam Bridge, Silkboard, Dairy Circle, from CBI Junction upto BDA head office, Jalahalli Circle, On Mysore road.
BMTC & BMRC are no different when it comes to treating passengers. Once passengers ge down from their service, its left to individual to save life while crossing roads or to do the last mile.
Take MERO case, at Bayippanhalli & MG road, still bridges to be provided for stations even after 6 months of opening???
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