Vasanth's blog

Shuttle suggestions based on our experiences

5 February 2010 - 10:57am — Vasanth

After reading everyone's Bus Day experiences in these posts, I felt we can have two approaches:

Is it wise to have IT parks near Airport?

19 December 2009 - 4:15pm — Vasanth

Many IT parks are coming up near BIAL, one example of big IT Park is the Manyata Tech Park. Is the Government decision wise to open IT parks near BIAL?

Bangalore East Connectivity

15 November 2009 - 6:47pm — Vasanth

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One month of BMTC Travel Experience

13 November 2009 - 11:49am — Vasanth

From past 1 month, I have been travelling in BMTC from BSK 3rd Stg to Doddenakundi. Although office has provided shuttle service, timings are inconvenient. On demand, our office is providing shuttle service every hour to Marathalli Bridge and Old Madras Road.

Poor design of flyovers lead us nowhere in solving traffic problems

29 October 2009 - 1:29pm — Vasanth

All over Bangalore, there is a galore of small small flyovers and now underpasses. But, none of them are constructed with thorough thought process and planning behind it. Usual mode of construction of flyover is to have 4 exit ramps and 4 entry ramps in semicircles like we have seen in foreign countries as well as in our NICE Somapura road junction.

Wastage of JNNURM funds for City Busstand Rennovation?

13 September 2009 - 3:33am — Vasanth

I just read through Star of Mysore that money spent for City Bus Stand is just a waste. There is nothing new with the building. Praja members of Mysore if can take pictures of the spot and post on the site would be very helpful.

Omni City Taxi - Where do you fit in?

5 September 2009 - 10:56pm — Vasanth

After BIAL, omni based city taxis are running low on business. Except for few taxis from Railway Station, no where they have business. They are also not coming out of their 'egos'.

Connecting TTMCs - A possible approach

4 September 2009 - 8:19am — Vasanth

Last year, we had discussed about the various routing algorithms, we discussed about Hub-Spoke, Grid etc and came to a conslusion like this via TTMCs:

Janmarg - A successful BRT so far without media publicity

25 August 2009 - 8:13am — Vasanth

Janmarg in Ahmeadabad, a BRT project modelled like the Transmilenio of Curitiba and Bogota, seems to be heading in the right direction.

The Art of Drainage Closing!!

28 July 2009 - 5:45am — Vasanth

Most of the roads, especially the internal roads within localities are dug and closed with an unscientific bump. I do not have pictures to give an example.

ABIDE - Please put few more proposals in front of Government

14 March 2009 - 3:41pm — Vasanth

I request ABIDe Members like professor Ashwin Mahesh who has been constantly interacting with us to take few more things with the Government.

1. Public Transport on NICE Peripheral road.

BTRAC & Signals

9 December 2008 - 12:43pm — Vasanth

BTRAC is putting signals in almost every intersections and replacing manual signals with lights.

One thing I observed in most of the replacement was that there is more congestion and waiting now. Traffic cops were manually observing the density of vehicles and releasing it accordingly. Waiting times used to be less.

Suggestion of Revision of train services between Bangalore and Mysore after track doubling

25 October 2008 - 9:33am — Vasanth

Mysore Bangalore track doubling is going to be completed by 2011. But, this is not the end of the woes to the travellers. The effective utilization of the doubled track by railways is the key to success.

Public Transport on NICE Peripherial Road

14 July 2008 - 6:35pm — Vasanth

Now the government has cleared NICE project, peripheral road should be complete very soon and it will be clogged by Bangalore Cars + Trucks!!

Kengeri to Whitefield Shuttle Train

8 July 2008 - 8:03pm — Vasanth

I was just seeing the frequency of trains from Mysore towards Bangalore as well as towards Whitefield from Bangalore station during morning hours. There seems to be very little traffic of trains. First train from Mysore towards Bangalore reaches Kengeri at 9:00 AM. Upto 9 AM track is completely free from Kengeri to Bangalore.

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