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Written By Sunil Kumar - 21 September, 2009
Bangalore BMTC Bus Bus Stops KR Puram Complaint OMR Transportation public transport
I would like to share with you all a bitter experience. On Saturday I was in KR Puram area at around 5pm & was waiting for a bus to Hebbal. It started to pour I would not believe there is no shelter for passangers to stand at all. It poured for over 1 hour I had to cross the road & stand under the ATM counter for a roof. KR Puram has plenty of buses operating to Shivajinagar, KR Market & KBS. KR Puram is also a sort of feeder to passangers moving towards Hoskote. I did notice the same sitiutation on the other side of the road. Lot of passengers going towards Hoskote, Malur , Tirupati , Chintamani also put to hardship as there is no Bus Shelter. BMTC makes so much profit but it lakes some basic amenities to its passangers.
BMTC needs to wake up & help its profit makers with a bare minimum shelter.
PS: This is K R Puram, not ORR/OMR junction:
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COMMENTS
idontspam - 22 September, 2009 - 05:26
If there are shelters at major locations like K.R.Puram separately according to destinations lot of congestion and chaos can be eliminated.
Very good point. Despite there being a valid point that you cant generally cover 100% of the people in a shelter there has to be sensible attempts at providing coverage. Splitting destinations by shelters is a very common method followed across the world. I dont believe the solution is not having shelters, If there is land available nearby buses can be made to pull over into well constructed bays with common waiting areas (which is what a TTMC is)
Destruction in disciplined society
idontspam - 22 September, 2009 - 05:23
My motive in asking people to not blindly put up pictures from outside India just to compare is for people to improve.
Dont really get the point. I am surprised why some poeple try to prevent other people from posting pictures instead of trying to make their own point.
Nevertheless below picture is some destructive activity from a very disciplined society. One would think after the following incident happened authorities in that city would have removed all shelters terming the city as indisciplined and unworthy of any bus shelters or modern amenities.
silkboard - 21 September, 2009 - 17:25
BBMP, BDA or BMTC, rain exposes them all, isn't it?
Saw this in Marathahhli too - waiting passengers had to get into the shops and restaurants to sve themselves from rain.
Was at Bannerughatta National Park today, was nice to see a few 365 (Volvos) as well as G-4 (Big10) parked and waiting. But no shelter for people from rain, for a place which serves as terminums for BMTC buses.
Pleny of examples. No point complaining further.
The point though is - who exactly is responsible for putting up and maintaining bus stops? BMTC pays, and BBMP or BDA build and maintain it? There must be something drastically wrong with the way it works
- BBMP manages bus stands for BMTC?
- Traffic police puts up signs (via the BTRAC project) for everything (tons of no parking signs) except the BMTC bus stands?
Why?
idontspam - 21 September, 2009 - 17:49
This division of labour is just nonsense in a lot of situations. It is further complicated because stakeholders and their roles in any activity are not clearly defined. Nothing works for the benefit of the common man, everything is done for the satisfaction of internal squabbles and one upmanship.
Bus stands can be built by BMTC but BBMP and traffic police needs to be in the workflow to approve. EVERY decision needs to be documented and put up for public viewing.
pathykv - 22 September, 2009 - 05:13
In spite of the need shelters are not being built, but there are many redundant shelters just for advt. hoardings.
If there are shelters at major locations like K.R.Puram separately according to destinations lot of congestion and chaos can be eliminated.
One more spot needing a shelter- The Domlur Bus stand is under renovation which may take a couple of years. Meanwhile no shelter is provided for the commuters who use this bus stand and have to stand in the open now in rain or shine.
K.V.Pathy
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