Kanakapura Road Big 10

Arun,
   I am not aware of any details, but i know the service is operational. Yesterday (24th Mar) morning, I did notice a Big10, which was waiting just in front of me at the signal in front Banashankari bus stop.

-Srivatsava V
http://srivatsava-vajapeyam.blogspot.com

operating from Kaggalipura to Corporation Circle thru BSK Bus Stand and JC Road.

Once the other 2 remaining Big10 routes (Old Madras Road and Sarjapur Road) are also launched, we can look at improving frequencies on all the roads.

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The road infra is obviously not good enough to sustain very high 'destination' points, whether on Big10 lines or not. Your numbers are reasonably indicative. But I think there are solutions around that, the key to which will be getting segment-wise data for the Big10 corridors, and then doing dynamic fleet management on the heaviest segments.

The CBD is an important destination, and yes, we'll look at articulated vehicles, double-deckers, etc to enhance carriage. But I think the more critical focus in Bangalore should be destinations along Big10 paths in locations other than the CBD. Take Electronics City or Bommasandra, for example. Here we should look at fleet management by running truncated services (still called Big10) on the core peak segments alone. If we did that, we could probably get frequencies up to 1-2 minutes on these bits, and more importantly these segments could be served without the need to run the bus the whole length. This is a standard fleet optimisation strategy on trunk routes.

I will see if a data collection system can be in place starting next week. I am getting aggregate data at the moment, which is indicative, but it would be much more efficient to work with segment data.

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