A short report: I saw a traffic policeman giving a challan to a BMTC bus that was parked awkwardly on the down ramp from Marathalli bridge. Excellent start. I want to see challans for improper parking at bus stops, illegal U-turns, ignoring lane discipline etc. I am of the view that it is not fair to put the blame entirely on the drivers - just look at our roads and how the rest of us drive. But it is high time BMTC starts pushing their drivers to be more disciplined in some basic things and maybe consistent challaning can trigger some push from the top?
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I noticed that as well, seems to be an uptick
Interesting that you mention this Sanjay, I caught a cop ticketing a bus at Kundalahalli signal twice recently, they seemed to be blocking the intersection.
Here is some stat, thanks to a data sheet I got from Traffic Police recently. 2035 cases of BMTC bus bookings in April 2010. Based on what we are seeing, this number should go up significantly in Aug. Lets see.
This is for April, and total includes other vehicle types (Moped, Tempo etc) that I trimmed out to keep the table small.
Type of Offences
BTS
P/BUS
CAR
M/C
S/C
A/R
TOTAL
Reckless Driving
101
60
1011
1389
496
397
4551
Over Speeding
1
8
4033
1625
175
4
6101
Over Loading
0
2
19
313
104
435
1247
Drunken Driving
0
2
1526
2410
554
377
5303
Ref.go for hire
0
0
0
0
0
2060
2060
Dem.Excess fare
0
0
0
0
0
1227
1227
A/R Display Card
0
0
0
0
0
85
85
Def.Fare meter
0
0
0
0
0
21
21
Def.Silencer
0
19
41
206
32
217
1087
Emmi.Black Smoke
0
2
1
6
0
12
334
Shrill Horn
9
206
14
75
14
68
1778
Without Permit
0
19
2
1
1
14
108
Without D.L.
0
5
234
1403
738
525
3695
Jumping Tr. Signal
890
309
12021
12664
5795
3301
46515
Wrong Parking
791
914
6597
6882
3763
4793
33348
Cutt.Yellow line
4
77
960
1823
673
927
18182
Def.Reg.No.Plate
0
20
435
1475
508
214
4422
No.Entry
70
573
4413
8950
3669
2116
36996
HTV Prohibited
0
143
0
0
0
1
6927
Without Uniform
0
182
58
0
0
1394
5936
Without I.C.
0
1
29
308
75
49
509
Without F.C.
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
Def.Head Light
0
51
432
84
25
52
1812
Def. Tail Light
0
0
0
6
2
49
123
Not Pro. Documents
0
11
289
864
326
212
2164
Over taking by left
14
7
75
46
20
71
604
Mobile Phone
79
37
2661
1144
671
277
6793
Safety Belt
0
0
107
0
0
5
191
Without Helmet
0
0
0
15186
8158
0
24708
Others
76
144
1658
2444
792
6306
37648
2035
2792
36616
59304
26591
25210
254476
BTS is BMTC
Got a question on what is BTS, and where is BMTC above. BTS = BMTC, its old name.
Notice that BMTC buses have been boked for mobile phone, and overtaking from left as well :) Biggest offence by number is jumping traffic light, which we do see them do often.
Wonder why no bookings for overloading there :) Do the BMTC buses have a load limit?
Jumping Tr Signal Violation - All are guilty!
SB,
Interesting statistics. Looking at the table, the highest violations seems to be in the category of 'Jumping Traffic Signal'. In this category everybody seems to sharing the equal proportion according to the total violation. Looks like "Sab Nange haein IS hamaam mein - All are naked in this bathroom".
Type of Offences, BTS, P/BUS, CAR, M/C, S/C, A/R, TOTAL
Jumping Tr. Signal -890, 309, 12021, 12664, 5795, 3301, 46515
I am sure many of these would have resulted in fatal accidents. Any chance to retrieve that information. May be not? BTP may not track all the way to emergency or hospital? But how do they pursue cases in court?
-Syed
I too have noticed a driver
I too have noticed a driver being issued a notice on route no. 340A at St.Johns hospital and all passengers argued with the inspector supporting the driver. Well what happened was:
The bus on its way to Parangipalya from majestic stopped at St.Johns stop behind a 362C and another E.City bound ordinary. Since passengers boarded he made a move. But the inspector at the stop was in no mood to listen and booked the driver for not stopping correctly at the stop. Despite passengers arguing the driver was given a notice and all passengers were cribbing over it
Syed, have lots of data from Traffic Police
Like you said, we all do it. Data says it too. That's why I hate it when people pick on BMTC buses or Auto drivers alone. Save for autos making more noise and polluting more (data says this too), everything else is sort of proportionate for all other categories of tickets.
Let me post some more traffic police data in a separate post, just got the July dataset from them.
April dataset from T Police
Indicates BMTC paid (assuming that they did) some 2.5 lakhs in penalty in the whole month of April. Trying to put that number in perspective, that is about 6200 liters of diesel or some 25000 km of driving at 4 kmpl. Not a bad amount.
My beef with BMTC drivers is that (1) These are trained drivers. Not like the cab driver lot. (2) They drive huge vehicles that can cause death/damage/disruption a lot easier than others. How many times has your heart jumped into your mouth when a BMTC bus swerves like an auto (granted, many a times precipitated by other drivers driving stupidly).
So with all sympathies for the job they have to do among other bad drivers, these guys should be held up to a slightly higher standard.
Do A/Rs come with seat belts now?
SB, the table above has 5 auto guys fined for not wearing seatbelt. Really? Since when do autos have safety belts. Can't wait to see the July data.