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As you are aware, no where in the world a  bus stand is located abutting a world heritage monument Fort of Amba Vilas Palace that has surpassed even Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world.  Huge amount has been spent in modernising the old bus stand and during rains, people have to walk very carefully on the super smooth area of the city bus stand.    Pleae tell the District Administration to see that the brand equity of Mysore is tourism and the KSRTC city bus stand with its heritage buses is spewing and creating heavy carbon footprints in CBD and it is better to shift the same. Then you can give your presentation from a new location.  Otherwise, you will be doing a disservice to Heritage Mysore City by inviting more and more congestion and pollution to the city center.  

The proposed Master Plan is being opposed tooth and nail by the people of Mysore because it looks as if it is trying to create a real estate market in Mysore.  We have suggested to leave mysore alone. .

I requet you and other prajas to refrain from further spoiling the beauty of many heritage buildings like the Jaganmohana palace, Amba Vilas Palace, Town Hall, Gadiyara chowa, K.R.Market area, Dodda Gadiyara and the greenery surrounding.  

Bottom line: Suggest ideas that may de-congest the CBD.  Enough damage has already been done to Mysore due to myopic plans and projects, just to utilise the JnNURM funds.  Have a look at the grotesque concrete monster building of the Suburban Bus Stand - just a stone's throw away from the famous Amba Vilas.

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath  

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DTO traffic (Mr. Maqsood Ahmed) was out of town and was confirmed by B.S.Shankar, member of MGP. Hence I did not attend the meeting since had to travel all the way from Bangalore. Another representative from KSRTC had attended the meeting on his behalf and suggestions as per this presentation was given:

http://www.slideshare.net/VasanthRamu/circular-grid-bus-network-for-mysore

Again, KSRTC Mysore is going to get 400 new buses and they are going to introduce circular buses and buses which do not enter City Bus Stand.

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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

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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.

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After watching this thread and similar one in SSC, Mysore Grahak Parishad or MGP has invited me to present this to  DTO traffic (Mr. Maqsood Ahmed) in Mysore on 8th Dec 2013. Hoping it will be fruitful.

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