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Meet to Plan BPS concept paper, Jan 20, 9.30 PM IST

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20 Jan 2011 21:30
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Transmog, Naveen, IDS, Albert, Shaheen and others (Karthik?) - with Jan 31 as sort of a deadline to hand over a Concept Paper on BPS to BMTC and BBMP, let us do that long pending meeting to exchange Q&A on BPS and plan collaboration on the concept paper.

BPS vs BRTS - an FAQ

Common answers to questions regarding BPS concept with respect to BRTS.

BPS Concept Paper

This project wiki details the concept of Bus Priority System (BPS) with G1 route as concrete example. Contents of this wiki will be used to publish a concept paper on BPS. the concept paper will be mailed to key stakeholders for the BPS proposals, like BMTC, BBMP, and Bangalore Traffic Police.

BMTC- new route proposal- need help from Praja

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I would like the help of Praja members to get a new bus service from Gottigere (BG Road) to Silkboard.

Current:
Almost all the buses from Bannerghatta Road go to Majestic/Shivajinagar/KR Market. There are no buses which "turn right" at the Jayadeva Hospital junction (while coming from Bannerghatta side).

Mobilicity report - session on Bus Priority System

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Apologies for delay in logging in this report. Real tight on time due to office work. I will request Naveen and Shaheen to log their individual reports/notes as well, had requested them to take notes during the session. So yeah, here is a quick summary.

Dodda Anyaaya!!!

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In Dandinashivara ZP constituency (Turuvekere taluk, Tumkur dt), various party candidates had promised the voters of getting a KSRTC bus facility sanctioned to Kurubarahalli Koppa village. Retired school teacher H K Nanjamma, hailing from Hullekere village, had contested as a BJP rebel candidate but lost to the BJP official candidate.

Introduce Volvo between Kamakhya and Shivajinagar

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I have noticed so many Volvo buses around 8AM and 8:45AM running empty between Kamakhya n majestic and from there it either move towards EC or ITPL.
I think it will be very handy to run those ITPL buses between Kamakhya n Domlur(or Shivajinagar) and thereby to ITPL.

Corrupt Checkers in BMTC buses

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I was travelling by a bmtc bus today morning, and was witness to some harassment & corruption!

I got onto a 304 from KRPuram, to go towards Hoodi around 7.30AM. The bus number was KA01 FA 831. Half way through, ticket checkers got into the bus.

BMTC bags Transport Minister's award

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BMTC recieves the "Transport Minister's trophy" - and award to silence all the media, press reporters and other people who had biased attitude towards BMTC and had given it the tag "Killer"- It has been given the award for the lowest number of accidents across the Country  among the State Transport Undertakings

Intermittent Bus Lanes - an input for BPS

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Those of you who are coming over to CiSTUP/IISc on Jan 10 will get to hear about in from the Professor himself. But the "intermittent bus lane" concept that was demonstrated at Lisbon in 2005 could be a source of input for evolving Bus Priority System (BPS) proposals in Bangalore.

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