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BMTC Atal Sarige (Low cost bus targeted users with less income)
Written By ramesh_mbabu - 2 June, 2009
http://www.hindu.com/2009/05/31/stories/2009053153650400.htm
While intention of introducing the new class of service is good, the mean chosen to acheive it is 100 % bad.
Pros :
- Provide cheaper PT for users with less income.
Cons:
- The target customers need is not met, their travelling needs can not be met with a meagre 25 buses making trips on an arbitrarily chosen 5-6 routes.
- Pilferage in reaching the target customers, any body can use it. If it was to reach the target customers only, the mean should have been to provide some kind of subsidised passes (monthly passes because managing the system for daily passes would be an over kill). Thus the target customers could have used it for their daily travel needs across the city, using any BMTC buses.
Ramesh.
COMMENTS
idontspam - 2 June, 2009 - 18:32
When will they stop naming such schemes after political figures.
Aha you want to stop when we reach the non gandhi dynasty? Hypocrisy
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s_yajaman - 3 June, 2009 - 04:46
IDS,
I am no fan of the BJP, but a great admirer of ABV (LKA cannot hold a matchstick to him IMHO). I think they could have found a better program to give his name to. Given his committment to the GQ project they could have named the Karnataka PPP Road project after him than this sham.
SY
New scheme with named after non corgress personality?
flanker - 2 June, 2009 - 17:18
binaiks - 5 June, 2009 - 07:19
The Atal Sarige - the concept, not the name - seems to be a nice idea to me. I saw one Atal Sarige working Jayadeva to Bommanahalli just a while back. The bus was parked near Vijaya Bank Enclave (The driver - cum - conductor was having his lunch). The route is amazing - Bommanahalli --> Kodichikkanahalli Cross --> Kodichikanahalli --> Vijaya Bank Layout --> Bilekahalli --> Jayadeva.
This route is currently being ruled by unscrupulous auto guys, who charge any figure that they could quote at the moment. The autos are ill maintained, and do not have meters. They tend to charge Rs 40-50 for a 2 kilometre run.
I am not sure of other sections where this route is being tried, but this combination (Jayadeva to Bommanahalli, AS5) is amazing one. One thing that I thougt is not good is using a bus - they should instead use minibuses. Buses will not fill up on sundry routes like this, which see crowd during certain hours of the day. Instead of running one single bus, they could route two minibuses, which would drastically improve frequency and would encourage more people to shun autos for these buses.
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Binai Sankar
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murali772 - 2 June, 2009 - 07:32
Another hoax - in addition to the other existing specials - mall, hospital, women only, pass, and what have you! And, it is given prominent publicity, whereas genuine reform measures like BIG-10, Ho-Ho at best get a mention in the fine print some where.
Any one still believes BMTC can be improved without effective competition?
Muralidhar Rao
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