Bengalooru Mahanagara Saarige Samsthe Shantinagar, Bengalooru – 560 027 Dear Sir Sub : Request for BMTC Bus Stop between Minerva Circle – Townhall on J.C.Road. (near BPCL Petrol Bunk) near SBI on J.C.Road The BMTC commuters have to walk a long distance to reach their destination on J.C.Road. This road is in the heart of the City & BMTC Bus stop are situated at a very far off distance which makes it difficult to reach bus stop. Please note that after Minerva Circle the next stop is situated at town hall very busy junction. Earlier Bus stop near Bharat Talkies was cancelled and as such Commuters have to walk long distance between these points.
Please note that there are many people working for various establishments on this important road and nearby areas. Please provide Bus stop near Bharat Talkies (near BPCL Petrol Bunk) near SBI on J.C.Road and adequate buses from all areas of the city to this place, and help the commuters especially Old Aged and Handicapped people who have to walk a very long distance to reach BMTC Stops. J.C.Road being oneway makes it all the more difficult to walk, with vehicles moving at high speed. If busstop is restored in the interest of Public, the private vehicle traffic will reduce on this busy road and more people will avail BMTC bus service to commute.
This BMTC Bus stop will mitigate hardship of walking a long distance to reach our work place / establishment or bus stop & this road is very busy road and we are also not able to cross from end to the other end on the busy road because of huge traffic at all hours of the day. Also request bus stop for people bound towards Jayanagar, J.P.Nagar and BTM areas from J.C.Road. Bus to stop near LIONs Eye Hospital to pick up commuters to Jayanagar areas.
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Same problem on Residency road
Welcome benaglure75.
This is a problem that needs to be tackled on quite a few roads. In their pursuit for speedier traffic movement, many bus halts have been removed for moving lanes to be left free.
BMTC & Traffic police need to find ways to address these issues on various roads as they add to the difficulties of commuters, already burdened by several one-way streets.
Residency road is another example. After the bus halt near Richmond circle at Bishop Cotton boys school, there is no halt till Mayo hall. An already built bus stop shelter near St.Josephs college gate is thus, unutilised, though far away from the traffic signal & will not obstruct traffic.
Seem to be no guidelines for bus stop locations
There seem to be no guidelines for bus stops. I think they should be no more than 1 km apart (I think that is itself too much) on arterial roads.
Added to this location - depends on all sorts of tussles between BTP, BBMP and BMTC.
I think ticketing systems need to be simplified via a combination of passes, stored value cards for bus stops to be closer. Imagine what a conductor must go through. We also need to grow up as a city and have everyone board through one door and exit through the other. Bombay does it, Delhi does it.
JC Road needs to have a stop somewhere after Siddaiah Road. There is enough place. If a 4 lane one-way road cannot accommodate bus stops it is a shame.
Thanks for bringing this up. Maybe for the next discussion with BMTC.
Srivathsa
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