Recent comments on this group
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S1 - S2 routes were good, don't know why BMTC stopped it.
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500C volvo runs between
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BG Road to ITPL new
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BG Road to ITPL
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Not a bad idea at
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Pilot non-stop buses this Bus Day?
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BMTC has never ever
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Fit case for a RTI?
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C5 ??
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366MA:
About Bus Day
Bus Day is a public transport promotion campaign undertaken by concerned citizens of Bengaluru, supported by BMTC, Traffic Police, ORRCA, members of Praja.in and various groups and associations.
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Posts on Bus Day
July Bus day - My best bus experience yet!!
To me, today was the best bus day experience till-date. I travel by bus pretty often, so i must add that I have not had any more comfortable experience before.
I dont travel on the Bus Day focus corridors, travelling from Girinagar to office near Forum mall. I can travel by just one change (two buses), but always prefer to change more often than wait for specific buses. I just take any route that goes in the direction I am headed to.
Left home near Girinagar at 7:55AM. Reached the bus stop in no time. Had breakfast at a darshini bang next to the bus stop. Less than a couple of minutes of wait (8:05AM), I had a majestic bound bus arriving at the bus stop. Got down at Hanumantanagar and took a Shivajinagar bound bus (no wait time today, but usually 3-5 mins wait there). Got down at Lalbagh main gate, and in about 30 seconds time boarded a Anekal bound bus. Got down at Forum Mall a little before 8:40AM and walked into office by 8:45AM...
Bus Day Campaign - Need Minds & Hands!!
Heres some fun activity followed by lot more fun activity!!
Update: The video campaign is put off for now. A separate notification will be posted on Praja whenever it happens!! The effort to meet and get the buy-in of corporators will go ahead as planned.
Event 1: Video Campaign
We have to build some short videos as Bus Day online campaign material. The intent is to showcase advantages of taking the bus, in short and crisp videos (may be 10 sec to 1min duration). The 'shoot' is planned for Saturday, 26th June from 8:30am to 10am. We need volunteers to enact in the clips. We need men and women - old, young & middle-aged, able to speak 'minimal' English or Kannada. And yes, ideas and storylines for the videos are also welcome. Hope to see atleast 10 people!!
Venue: Shantinagar Bus Stand (tentative). From there, we may hop on to a 'exclusive' Bus to shoot the videos!!
And yes, We need a good camcoder and a interested/skilled 'video'grapher. Any volunteers?
Event 2: Corporators Campaign!!
July Bus Day - moved to 7th July
Folks, get ready to take the Bus again!!
July Bus day will NOT be on the 4th of July, since its a Sunday. Instead, it will be on Monday, the 5th of July. 7th July, moved out in light of Bharat Bandh.
This time round, there are two more corridors being added for Bus Day, making it a total of 7 corridors. The list of corridors
- Old Madras Road
- Old Airport Road
- Sarjapura Road/ORR,
- Hosur Road
- Bannergatta Road
- Tumkur Raod
- Mysore Road
As usual, don't forget post your experinces here on Praja!!
BMTC Feeder service to City Railway Stations!
Deccan Herald carried a news item quoting BMTC about its plans to start a feeder service connecting BMTC Bus Stand and the City Railway Station.
"...A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is in the offing between the BMTC and the South-Western Railways to introduce free mini bus services between the city railway station and the BMTC bus stand.
Passengers now have to rely on auto services to get to the bus stand. They are charged Rs 14, the minimum fare, for the half a kilometre distance between the bus stand and the railway station.
But within a week’s time, three mini buses would ply between the two stops from 5 am to 10 pm every day. The Corporation is also planning to launch bus services from Yeshwanthpur and Cantonment railway stations to different destinations in the city and a fleet of 40 buses will be on service..."
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/76974/riding-infoway-airport.html
Courtesy - Deccan Herald
Routes introduced after February 2010
Following routes came into existence after the first bus day in Bangalore City by BMTC
Bus Day - need an anchor from Praja side
Few members continue to work in their own ways to support BMTC on Bus Day. But after the first few Bus Days, we have missed an "anchor" from Praja community side who could spend time with BMTC (via phone, email or meetings) to get details on next Bus Day, as well as pass our feedback and suggestions.
Calling for a Bus Day anchor from Praja communtiy side. Job description and perks if you will:
- Get to represent all of us (Praja members) at BMTC. Get a real opportunity to understand public transportation systems and issues.
- If needed, speak to the media to convey summary of our discussions and suggestions here.
- Get your own special "praja.in" email id.
- Control and Manage the Bus Day corner on this web-site
This won't be a job for life or anything like that, can rotate between multiple people as well if groups of people want to do this on a shared basis.
Leave a comment here to reply (that's the true Praja way, open and public), or drop us an email (admin at praja dot in) if you would be interested.
A perfect Bus Day this time, almost!
It certainly got better for me this time. Can't take the bus regularly to work because of the last mile problem (HAL airport to CV Raman Nagar, no bus, no shuttles to rely upon). So the Bus Days for me are Auto rickshaw haggle days as well.
But not this time. 314AA, a new route, goes all the way from Whitefield to Bagmane Tech Park. Too good to be true, but I was at my bus stop at 8.25, and a 314AA showed up at 8.30 am (as was told and promised by 'someone'). Nice Marco Polo equipment, 12 Rs only all the way to Bagmane Tech Park, aha!
The route is an iffy one though. Airport Road is one thing, and Kaggadaspura Main Road another. Spent 20-25 minutes (!!) to cross the narrow stretch near Railway crossing, and reached Bagmane bus stand only at 9.40 am. Got off 314AA, and hopped on to the Tech Park shuttle which circles inside the campus every 5-10 minutes. 9.50, in my office. Route Map here, red dot is where the that 25 minute jam happened.
June 4 - Bus day is on
Not much time to interface with BMTC for this month's event, though I am sre Jenny and some others have been on. The Bus Day is very much on for June 4th.
Bus Day campaign needs a named "anchor". If Srivatsava or Bharat or someone else can just keep in touch with BMTC and posting updates from them, that should be good enough. Once in a while meetings with BMTC too will help.
Bus Day - May 4th
Back to 4th of the month, May bus day is indeed on the 4th date of May.
- What new experiements or announcements will we see from BMTC?
- How has BMTC been addressing the volumes of feedback Bus Day event has been generating?
- Will newly elected corporators join the Bus Day band wagon, and help BMTC improve its information systems and services?
Let us all take the bus once again on the 4th of May, and keep sending feedbacks, posiive or negative to BMTC.
Bus Day - feedback and Suggestion
We have a meeting fixed up with BMTC to discuss the feedback recieved over the last three Bus days, the lessons learnt, the actions/initiaves taken by BMTC in adressing the issues and any suggestions that can be taken up for the further editions of the Bus Day.
Venue: BMTC Office, Shantinagar Bus Interchange
Time : 10AM -11AM.
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