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Metro Feeder Gyaan
Written By silkboard - 2 November, 2011
Bangalore Transportation public transport Metro Rail
Project wiki to capture project team's thoughts, can structure this for the eventual report.
General Strategy
The Target Commuters
There are two types of commuters to target and please
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Last Mile - Provide local shuttles for first/last mile connection to Metro commuters. Home to station, station to office, in cases where Home or Office may be within 5-6 KM radius of the station. Ex:
- SV Road station to Jeevan Bima Nagar
- MG Road station to Lavelle Road
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Direct Trunk Transfer - Make Metro Ride a part of a larger route for a trunk commuter. Ex:
- Old Madras Road Big-10, get off at CMH Road, continue to MG Road station
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Trunk Connect (not sure yet if commuters will make a Bus change, given the sad state of Bus transfer situation, unlikely)
- Ex: Biyappanahalli to Old Airport Road to connect Big-10 G1.
Focus, avoid spread
- Don't please everyone. Pick 2 or 3 route directions and serve them so well that people feel ashamed when not taking the Feeder. Ex: 1 bus every 5 minutes on Jeevan Bima Nagar Main Road/ 80 feet road towards SV Road station is better than 1 bus every 30 minutes on any main road in Indiranagar / HAL Area
- Target select trunk combinations. Ex: Reach-1 (open right now) to Big-10 on Old Madras Road
- Strictly time express feeders to sizable Job Areas. Ex: Biyappanahalli to Bagmane, 8.30, 9, 9.30 am only, 5.30, 6. 6.30pm only.
Information Display - Coming from Bus, onwards on Metro
- Clear display inside the Feeder Bus showing all Metro stations it touches. If not a fixed display, a Metro connect information booklet
- For the one or two Metro stations touched by this Bus, also list other regular BMTC services that are available at that Metro station.
- Metro Ticket cost information inside the Bus, so that those who are new (there will always be new riders) can plan exact change, or decide about card or ticket.
- Dynamic Display right outside station showing next train timings in both directions. This avoids some jumping off the Bus and needless rush towards the Platforms
Information Display - Coming from Metro, onwards on the Bus
- Clear Display, right at the platform, listing areas connected to this station by Public Transit. A map marking areas, along with names of areas
- Regular signs, every 30-50 meters along the exit walk showing "Bus Stand here"
- Right before the station exit, a list of top 5 Feeders and Trunk services available at this Bus Stand.
Analysis - Biyappanahalli
Current State
What is planned
Prescriptions
Analysis - ?
[more - technology, route suggestion for the three key stations on Reach 1]
COMMENTS
Corporation Circle to MG Road Station
Vasanth - 2 November, 2011 - 09:12
Corporation / Basaveshwara Circle to MG Road Station is a very crucial link. All the southern area buses bound to majestic will touch corporation circle. A link from here to MG Road will be very important for those who want to travel to Indiranagar / Rammurthynagar / BTP.
ss87 - 2 November, 2011 - 12:04
As per the news report today G-8, G-9 and G-11 Big10 Services will connect the Metro station- 129D runs from majestic to Metro with 10 mins frequency-on similar lines 121BA has been introduced to connect Satellite bus stand at Mysore road
Good to see some progress. More progress needed on Eastern Side
Vasanth - 3 November, 2011 - 02:08
Good to see some progress by BMTC on this. We want to see more on this on Eastern side connecting Byappanahalli to ITPL along two routes, one via Marathalli and another directly via OMR with A/C Marcopolo / Volvo.
I had never thought train would finish the journey with 13 odd minutes, thought it would take atleast 20 minutes. So using Metro in between would reduce lot of time. (Wish if the train had crossed the KR Puram Bridge as discussed by everyone).
Meanwhile another good news is that among the two TBMs, Helen is progressing well and within few weeks time it might reach Central College Station and it is expected to reach Cricket Stadium by July 2012.
idontspam - 8 November, 2011 - 14:18
The issue really is the absolute irrelavance of the trip sheet to what happens on the ground. Complete contrast with the precision engineering of the train upstairs. It is absolutely essential that they start tracking & publicising the GPS feeds so the bluff can be called. Put up the timetable as a committment with a 50% delay tolerance. Peak hour from BYP to CVRaman nagar can have a 15 min variance. Even if you assume a couple of trips of 30 min delay it cannot reduce the total trips by half.
I dont think this should be left to BMTC anymore, I hope the transport secretary or his department will step in & take control of integration.
Bengalureans go purple with Namma Metro : 1 Lakh crossed
Sanjeev - 2 May, 2016 - 13:25
Curious commuters continued to throng South-India’s first underground metro station on the second day of the commercial operations, taking the number of riders to more than 1 lakh on Sunday. In just two days, the purple line saw almost 2.5 lakh footfalls, generating revenue of more than Rs 70 lakh. By 10 pm, more than 1.25 lakh people had tried the purple line metro.
The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) is expecting huge ridership on Monday, too, as Chinnaswamy Stadium will host the IPL match between the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders at 8 pm. The BMRCL will extend timings from 10 pm to 12 pm.
More feeder buses
Given the high demand for feeder buses in Bengaluru East, a BMRCL official said the BMTC has agreed to deploy feeder buses near Swami Vivekananda metro station. “Instead of Baiyappanahalli, SV Road was chosen due to the availability of spacious bus bay. This is going to help many to switch over to public transport such as metro and BMTC. This was the demand of techies who work in the nearby localities. Metro bikes will also be operational in a week,” he said.
Service extended for IPL match
On account of the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders to be played at Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Monday, the BMRCL will extend metro operations on both stretches (Purple and Green lines) up to 12.30 am on Tuesday.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/543864/bengalureans-go-purple-namma-metro.html
Hype created for METRO and same time BMTC and SUburban Rail carrying number of people in Bangalore tells how big gap exists for METRO to catch up with its limited carrying capacity.
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