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Written By Vasanth - 12 September, 2009

Mysore Complaint public transport

I just read through Star of Mysore that money spent for City Bus Stand is just a waste. There is nothing new with the building. Praja members of Mysore if can take pictures of the spot and post on the site would be very helpful.

I thought they would construct multilevel bus stand. But, pictures put on SOM looks like that they have made it like Majestic bus stand of Bangalore with antique touch of 'Mantapas' on top of the bus shelter.

Transport Minister Ashok is saying that he would try to construct another bus stand opposite Railway Station in JK Grounds. Is this really a Tuglaq Darbar??

We need more investment on the fleet in Mysore rather than the bus stands.  Buses never turn up even after waiting a long time and one has to take up auto. It is especially more in Udayagiri - NR Mohalla region. Bit OK in Kuvempunagar Saraswathipuram area. That is why most people in Mysore is opting for private vehicles.

 

COMMENTS

A map will be nice

silkboard - 13 September, 2009 - 16:01

Please lay down Mysore PT patterns via a map - like we have done and seen in various maps for Bangalore, with those radial and ring roads,

Tarle - I recall you had done a picture once.

grids vasanth?

tsubba - 13 September, 2009 - 12:15

vasanth are you hinting at grid based system? maybe we can try to map this out? also how does this figure in terms of the new developments with mysore city busservices under jnnurm?

public trans just not the priority here

Arun - 13 September, 2009 - 16:53

Public Transport has been lagging behind amidst so much of talks about it.  I remember the following initiatives that have either been dumped or were just stray comments -

  • Electric buses for which surveys were done
  • BRT with  French collaboration
  • BRT under JNNURM with DULT 

The first two are no longer in the picture whereas the BRT under NURM is unlikely to materialise according to a senior official in the NURM cell.   Politics....However a team of NURM officials visited Ahmedabad last month to study the BRT.

As far as the 're-modelling' of the existing city bus stand is concerned, it will serve the citizens very little.  Few had suggested relocation of the bus stand, which would have been a good move.  It's location makes buses travel several kms as buses cant enter KR Circle.  For eg., buses coming from south, west converge at Sankrit College junction.  Multi level would not have happend because of the Palace adjacent (while Garuda mall gets the permission).  But politics again. 

Also the suburban bus stand should have been one of the terminus in the city.  There were other locations like Bannimantap and Kuvempunagar where KSRTC owns vast tracts of land for creating new terminals and linking them with a good local transit system. 

On the routing - a complete rejig is required.  Very often people write about this in the local paper - Star of Mysore. 

As on date, the NURM funds have not been utilised properly as far as public transport is concerned. 

DULT was to hold a public consultation on the report they have got from ICRA.  Am not sure if this has happend.

I will check with DULT and NURM officials and update if any serious work is going to happen or is it just that KSRTC is unlocking the value of its real estate.

maps

tsubba - 13 September, 2009 - 18:04

yep. again, need just a few more days.

Circular and 6 bus corridors for Mysore

Vasanth - 13 September, 2009 - 00:54

One major problem in Mysore is the bus routing model. It is pure Hub Spoke. Just to travel to neighbouring locality, one has to goto City Bus Stand and Come back. If we get first bus, we do not get the connecting bus.

We need three circular corridors of bus routes, outer, middle and inner with buses going in both the directions for connecting neighbouring areas better just like 500 and 501 of BMTC Bangalore.

Here are the three routes that comes to my mind:

Outer  Corridor : JP Nagar-Vivekanandanagar – Ramakrishnanagar – Sharadadevi Nagar – RTTC – SJCE – Premier Studio – Jayalaxmipuram – Metagalli – Bannimantap – Udayagiri – Siddharatha Layout – Zoo – MG Road – Ramanuja Road – Vidyaranyapuram 16th Main – Sterling – JPNagar

Central Corridor: Chamundipuram- KrishnamurthyPuram- Kuvempunagar Double Road – Open air theatre-  Vinayaknagar- Gokulam – Shaalimar Theatre – Udayagiri – Gayathripuram – IttigeGudu – Nanjangud Road –Agrahara – Siddappa Square- Chamundipuram 

Inner Corridor :  Agrahar – RTO – Court – Saraswathipuram – University Caford Hall – Hunsur Road- Railway Station – Suburban Bus Stand – City Bus Stand - Agrahar


6 Bus Corridors

J.P.Nagar to Bannimantap via CBS

Vijaynagar to Siddhartha Layout via CBS

Vivekanandanagar to NR Mohalla and further via CBS

Ramakrishna Nagar to  Mahadevapura Main Road

Sharadadevi Nagar to Rajeev Nagar

Metagalli to GunduRao Nagar via CBS and Ramanuja Road

Buses should be plying in both the directions with regular frequency just like Big 10 of Bangalore.
 
These routes can be funded by JNNURM instead of wasting for unwanted bus stands. Probably there is no much gain for the Citizen Representatives by this initiative unlike Bus Stand Construction, hence no one is thinking in this direction.

 

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