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An outline for a most equitable public bus transport model

16 July 2019 - 11:47am — murali772

There had been estimates from long that the city needed far more buses than the BMTC was operating, and it was also known that the need was being partially met by the private operators. But, nobody knew that between the private operators and the schools, there were over 6 times the numbers operated by BMTC.

Pod Taxi kills a metro route..

9 July 2018 - 9:21am — srinidhi

The 'new' budget that the CM presented recently has tried to make way for the weird Pod Taxi project which was proposed by the earlier government.The route picked for the conceptual PRT system is starting from Trinity circle(MG rd) and heading towards HAL aiport road.

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Multi Modal Integration : Metro, Railways, BMTC & Foot paths

17 September 2017 - 8:10pm — Sanjeev

As we have seen Ph-1 of Metro open to public without any consideration for multimodal integration, other end slowly suburban rail taking traction, People are using over crowded Metro with poor integration to change over from one mode of publci transport system to other.

Even we do not have single mobility card for Bangalore urban transport.

BMTC in Metro Times

27 June 2017 - 2:55pm — Vasanth

Ever since the launch of Metro, especially after East West Purple line was fully implemented, Bengaluru is saying 'Metro, Metro'. BMTC commuters, office bus users and many car drivers have switched over to Metro. Ridership has already touched 1.8 Lakhs on purple line.

Elevated Light Rail System – Hebbal to JP Nagar

5 December 2016 - 2:07pm — amithpallavoor

An alternative mode of quick transport, real estate based development or a mere election gimmick?

Which Metro Route To Airport Is Better?

25 June 2016 - 11:32am — Naveen

No decision has been taken yet for a metro route to airport. As per latest reports, BMRC is keen on the Thannisandra-Bagalur route (past Nagawara) since it saves on distance and since there is pressure to include airport connectivity by metro rail as part of phase-2 itself.

ಉಪನಗರ ರೈಲು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಉಳಿಸಿ!

31 January 2016 - 11:03pm — kbsyed61

ನಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಜಾ ಗೆಳೆಯರಿಗೆ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ,

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Whither RITES?

27 January 2016 - 4:39pm — murali772

While a lot of debate has been going on from long about reforms in Indian Railways (check here), the latest being the Dr Bibek Debroy report (check The Hindu report on the same h

A well-argued case for bullet trains in India

24 January 2016 - 12:12pm — murali772

Given that it is a low-energy, low-emission mode of transportation that can reduce costs significantly, India should not miss the opportunity to develop high-speed rail

- - -HSR is a better option in terms of energy efficiency, carbon footprint and inter-city travel time than air travel

Time to Call upon State and Railways for Namma Railu Implementation - #‎SupportNammaRailu‬

22 January 2016 - 1:51am — kbsyed61

#‎SupportNammaRailu‬

Even after 5 years into Namma Railu advocacy, things have not started to work out the way we all have wanted to be. The project is still in corridors of state government and Railway Ministry. With budget around the corner, let us remind our public representatives that they have forgotten about this project.

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