Satellite Bus Stands - Will they reduce traffic?

Most of the traffic planners say to start the satellite bus stands to reduce the city traffic. Recently KSRTC Minister Mr.Ashok announced many satellite bus stands and even in Mysore where the traffic is quite normal in the range of 300+ crores. Will they really serve the purpose?

I would say that Satellite bus stands are really helpful when most of the buses become empty at the entrance of the city. If the buses run full till the Central Bus Stand, it should be continued that way. Why?

If the buses are running full, it means that most of the passengers are traveling to central business district and traveling further. Only very few as I have observed, on an average say 5% of the people get down on the way to central bus stand. If this bus ends at the satellite bus stand, few will take autos and few city buses. This will lead to increased number of autos plus satellite bus stand service buses. Many of the intercity travelers will be carrying luggage and hence prefer autos. This will increase the cost to the passenger and at the same time increase the auto traffic.

This works out if 50% of the passengers get down at city entrance and only 50% or less travel to the central bus stand. Then, people of 2 buses can be clubbed together into a single bus and transferred to central bus stand. People will still have the reluctance to change the buses to reach the central bus stand.

This can clearly be seen with Bangalore satellite bus stand at Byatarayanapura. KSRTC is marketing its premier services by creating inconvenience to non-premier bus service by starting them from Satellite bus stand. If at all to reduce the traffic, KSRTC had to start all the buses from Satellite bus stand. But it is not doing so, premiere and Express services start from Majestic and only common man's nonstop services start from satellite bus stand. Also, people traveling from Mysore to Bangalore mostly travel towards Majestic and do not end their journey before satellite bus stand.

Well, instead of satellite bus stands with hitech malls, restaurants and lounges, why don't they invest in more city buses. At the cost of 200+ crores for satellite bus stand, at the cost of around 10 lakhs per bus, we get nearly 2000 buses. Cities like Mysore have hardly got less than 1,000 buses. Instead of investment in the satellite bus stand, this can improve the city bus service.