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Extend or overlap BIG 10 services
Written By nl.srinivas - 28 May, 2009
Bangalore BMTC Bus suggestion Routing Big10 Transportation public transport
I happened to travel via shivajinagar instead of taking the bus to KBS to reach domlur from sanjay nagar. I reached indian express hoping to get 331-A. It did come but it was already full and around 10 more people got in to the bus. The bus was literally full with just about people managing to find place to stand. On the way I say two BIG-10s which were with more than half their seats unoccupied. Doesn't it make sense to extend BIG-10 running on arirport road toll indian express or shivajinagar? The Yalahanka BIG-10 seems to be doing good after extending it till shivajinagar. I cannot comment on other BIG-10s since I have never used them.
And I don't think I have to say anything on Blue-line and Orange-line buses. It is an idea which has completely gone wrong.
COMMENTS
Similar to Big 10 - MBS Series
Vasanth - 2 February, 2011 - 06:50
Earlier, BMTC itself had started MBS series of buses for grid routes. It was not so successful. Still MBS series are plying, but frequency is not as good as Big10. BMTC also had T series of buses, T12 is still popular.
Something like the Big 10 roads of Bangalore, we have few big localities comprising popular roads. A connection of such roads of one of the locality of one end of the city to the other end will be more useful.
For example, Malleswaram Sampige road is a very popular road often visited, same way Gandhi Bazaar Main Road, Jayanagar. We earlier had route 1.
Same way, on the south we have the Bank Colony Main Road, KR Road etc with good population density. On the north we have MS Ramiah Road / Vidyaranyapura Road / BEL Road.
On the west we have Vijayanagara Main Road, on the east we have Koramangala IRR.
We need Big 10 blue buses like service, let BMTC call them with whatever series like MBS series or T-Series, connecting these major roads with good frequency of atleast 10-15 mins.This will be similar to Metro service connecting one end of the city with the other although buses gets struck in traffic. This should bypass Majestic to save the time of commuters. Otherwise, Majestic is already connected to every area, and this will be duplication.
rackstar - 2 February, 2011 - 07:09
Instead of terminating few buses at mayohall/brigade road they can terminate big 10 buses at shivajinagar busstand. at least there is good enough shelter and better connectivity. shivajinagar busstand can even be termination for metro feeders to mg road station.
ss87 - 2 February, 2011 - 11:02
The stopping of Big-10's at enterances is quite abrupt end to the long routes. Some routes are seriously in view of extension and conversion. Why have a G-2 and B-2 separately-all G-2's can cut across towards Peenya merging some buses of 252A too. G-4 can be merged with G-1 to Kadugodi, G-12 and G-6 can be merged as they have common destination at Shantinagar. Similarly with G-5 and G-11 which will in turn connect Kanakapura Road with Shivajinagar and K.R.Road with Hennur. The route of G-7 to can be diverted-it stops at majestic literally taking out the concept of Big10
shashi kumar y - 3 February, 2011 - 04:49
@ ss87 & @ VASANTH.
Some of the MBS & Trunk routes were really helpful in service but they were removed or stopped becoz of loss in terms revenue. Even though the routes were highly popular, they were removed.
Now the question arises, how it is loss when the routes were highly popular??
Need the answer??? Here it goes..........
Consider this.. the longer the routes ... the less is the revenue earned on those longer routes as compared to the 2 interchange buses.
Well let me explain in clear..
Consider you are a resident of JP Nagar 6th phase and wish to go to HEBBAL.
So normally you go to KBS(Majestic) and from KBS one more bus to Hebbal.
Hence the fare you pay in total is :--From JPN6 to KBS: Rs:13(approx)
From KBS to Hebbal Rs:12(Apprx)
So total RS:25, BUT THIS WON'T HOLD GOOD in the MBS-1(which was plying from 6th phase to Hebbal). The fare would be b/w Rs17-18.
So a loss of Rs: 7 or More to BMTC.
If you(readers) still didn't get the idea,
Board the Big Blue-10 FROM E-city and purchase the ticket for the last stop(i.e,) PEENYA.
And while coming coming back, board a bus from PEENYa to Shivaji Nagar and from Shivaji Nagr to E-city.
Then see the difference in the fare spent by you in to & fro motion.
Conclusion: Longer or merged routes means loss to BMTC.
BMTC's main motto is too make more & more money by causing problem to Public.
Finally... WAKE UP WAKE UP BMTC COMMUTERS / PASSENGERS. FIGHT FOR JUSTICE.
shashi kumar y - 2 February, 2011 - 05:14
I agree with Ritesh and Pathy K V. The present BIG-10 routes only ply till almost central part of bangalore. there by creating the passengers to hop on to multiple bus to reach a place.
Atleast BMTC should extend the BIG-10 buses beyond the central part without touching the central area.
For exaple just like the BIG blue buses.
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