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Written By s_yajaman - 11 February, 2009

Bangalore BMTC Bus CBD Citizen Reports HOHO Big10 Transportation public transport

Saw this in this morning's DH.  Not surprised that it is off to a slow start. 

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Feb112009/city20090211117812.asp

'“We have no collection at all. Throughout the day we have got only Rs 30 by ferrying the distance,” said the driver of a Kendriya Sarige bus service.'.

'Nearly 66 buses in two opposite directions, namely the Blueline and the Orangeline buses, will ply the inner city roads.'

I will be helping the first point on Saturday.  Why don't we do our Praja meeting at Cubbon Park/MG Road after taking one of these buses?

66 is a lot of buses.  Do we need a Red Line (not the Delhi one), and a Green line as well.  4 CBD routes can be possible with 15 buses on each route some shorter and some longer with overlapping stops to change.  The "shopping" stretch of MG Road has to be covered; buses should go from Richmond Road towards Residency Road and Mayo Hall.  Is Volvo overkill for this - all this needs is those Jet Airways style buses at the airport - lots of standing place and lots of glass.

SB - any hopes of having a discussion with Prof Ramesh and RK on this?  This is an excellent concept and should not be shut down because of lack of revenues. 

Srivathsa

COMMENTS

Hope this expands

asj - 11 February, 2009 - 12:28

Looks like a nice start, but I think the point made by prkamath is valid. PT is a great equaliser and having som many different classes of buses is unhelpful.

Ideally this ought to be expanded region wise - London uses a concentric circles approach. I can get a zone 4 day/week/month/quarterly/yearly pass and use it in zone 4 as many times as I want.

There are other options and I have suggested this one in Pune http://better.pune.googlepages.com/pune_zoning.doc 

But on the whole this is the right way forward.

ASJ

next Big10 services ...

ash.mahesh - 5 March, 2009 - 06:27

Mysore Road tomorrow, and Bellary Road on Sunday or Monday. There is also some discussion going on to make the Big10's cross-city (i.e. 5 lines, running on two roads each. For example, Bellary Road - Hosur Road could be a single Big10). The pros and cons of this are worth debating here.

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Looking forward to see the new HOHO - will try it for sure

s_yajaman - 12 March, 2009 - 04:43

Professor,

Thanks for the update. Waiting to see the new routes.   Will take the HOHO this weekend and give you feedback.

is the BG Road Big 10 running?  BMTC does not seem to update their website very frequently on new routes.

Thanks,

Srivathsa

 

Thats prof ashwin mahesh

silkboard - 12 February, 2009 - 15:04

Srivathsa, you meant prof mahesh, not prof ramesh, here he is, commenting himself (above) in personal capacity!! RK Misra said he will help push local shuttle plans for any area if there are well thought out suggestions ready. I can do this for whitefield for sure, and can also organize a 'praja-style meeting with him (and prof ashwin as well) to talk end to end connectivity via bmtc. Will check interest in this via a separate post. Go hoho go!

question about 66 buses

ash.mahesh - 12 February, 2009 - 14:21

not sure where that number is coming from - here are the ones I have.

- 9 Volvo buses in each direction for Kendra Saarige

- 16-20 Suvarna buses for each of the major Big10 roads, maybe fewer for Bannerghatta and Tumkur Roads which share stretches with other Big10 roads (Hosur and Bellary Road respectively).

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