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April Bus Day - date changed to 7th
Written By silkboard - 5 March, 2010
Bangalore BMTC Bus Transportation public transport Bus Day
Can we try something different this time? Get celebrities in? Request some radio channels to publicize the event?
Watch for and join some planing meetings prior to this Bus Day. If you been watching so far, BMTC is here to help, listen and act. Use Bus Day as the medium to give constructive feedback.
Take the Bus, its your city, and your environment.
COMMENTS
muthusubs - 7 April, 2010 - 16:58
Today I experienced unusually heavy traffic in the evening on Old Madras Road (of course the road is so hopeless that no bus day can improve the traffic condition here), Majestic and Okalipuram. Looks like the propaganda was not sufficient and the mix-up of the dates has confused a lot of people.
silkboard - 8 April, 2010 - 13:40
Can't believe someone actually said that to DNA.
I was in a Bus Day interaction meeting at BMTC last week, and representative from a large IT company said the reverse - he said that their goal is stop leasing buses and use BMTC's regular scheduled services as that is in the interests of the city.
Have been tied up, will post a report on the meeting I attended, was a good experience.
Will check with BMTC on exact date
silkboard - 6 March, 2010 - 03:17
I thought we had suggested fixed date (4th every month), for following 2 reasons:
- Fixed date is easy to remember and promote (from pure marketing perspective)
- Need to push PT for weekends as well, and fixed date will mean once in a while, we will get weekends too.
But will check with BMTC to make sure, if focus is weekdays only, then so be it, no issues with that. But then, changing from April 4 to April 5 wll require some publicity via papers and radio channels. Bus Day posters (on the buses) clearly say 4th of every month.
vinod_shankar - 5 March, 2010 - 05:04
BMTC has a said quite few times, even their press releases that if the 4th of the month falls on holiday/weekend, bus day will happen on the next working day. Its better to get it confirmed from BMTC, before making any plans.
Regards,
vinod
Address grievances first says Commuters
kbsyed61 - 6 April, 2010 - 21:18
Deccan Herald carried a very thought provoking news item attributing to BMTC commuters. For more read
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/62336/address-grievances-first-commuters.html
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