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Corruption in the BMTC - Tickets

7 July 2010 - 12:28pm — Supraja

Tickets not issued in BMTC buses - The conductor asks commuters to opt for ticketless travel, by paying an amount lesser than the ticket value. Surprisingly, this is a regular practice.

BMTC - Interactive Maps Project

1 July 2010 - 3:01pm — admin

Book to hold together all other wikis and posts related to the crowdsourcing driven BMTC Maps project. Edit this wiki page as the project grows.

Crowdsourcing: BMTC Vajra Route info database - II

1 July 2010 - 1:25pm — shekhar_mittal

A few folks at Praja are trying to create some handy, cool and easy to understand maps for buses. In the initial phases their focs is on the volvo routes.

Attached is the completed vajra map. The plan is that there will be one more map/side which will accompany this map, which shows each route individiually in a straight line - showing ALL the stops. Now to create this map, we need to collect data regarding the list of all the stops the bus stops at. This complete info is not mentioned on the BMTC site.

Can we do this true Praja style? Below is the SECOND list of bus routes. The First list can be found here We need to make sure that all the bus stops covered by the route are covered in "via places".

How to fill the table?

Callous Attittude of BMTC Authorities - No ownership of work -highly deplorable.

30 June 2010 - 9:31am — Neeyathi_hemmige

Hi Prajas,

The BMTC bus fares have been hiked... and the monthly pass with the new revised rates have still not reached the pass-counters be it at BMTC major bus-stands (Majestic,Shivajinagar, KR Market) leave alone other bus-depots.

Crowdsourcing: BMTC Vajra Route info database - I

29 June 2010 - 1:17pm — admin

A few folks at Praja are trying to create some handy, cool and easy to understand maps for buses. In the initial phases their focus has been on the volvo routes.

Which monthly pass should i prefer... help me.

29 June 2010 - 10:29am — ikalci007

Hi all,

I have to travel daily from Kovempu Circle (near BEL Circle) to Rammurthy Nagar Signal (near K.R Puram tinfactory), now i want to take a monthly pass for this. I want to know that is in this route Black board pass valid or not? I have confusion in Black board pass and other pass. Should i take Black board pass or other pass?

Suggest me!!!

Bus Day Campaign - Need Minds & Hands!!

24 June 2010 - 6:59am — Srivatsava

Start: 26 Jun 2010 08:30

End: 26 Jun 2010 10:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

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

23 June 2010 - 9:01pm — Srivatsava

Start: 7 Jul 2010

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

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!

23 June 2010 - 8:11am — kbsyed61

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.

Routes introduced after February 2010

15 June 2010 - 2:10pm — ss87

Following routes came into existence after the first bus day in Bangalore City by BMTC

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