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Relocation of Kadugodi Bus stand

13 April 2010 - 1:20pm — magarwal10

Now it is expected that Railway Overbridge at Kadugodi will be completed soon. It is the time to think about extension of Volvo bus service at least upto Safal Market as lot of residential layout are upcoming in this stretch. Kadugodi bus stand can be relocated somewhere near Safal Market where the land prices are definitely cheaper as compared to the existing location of bus stand.

Bus Day publicity suggestion

10 April 2010 - 1:53pm — ashok_n

Hello,

I feel the mass publicity for this excellent idea of Bus Day is still lacking. The awareness of the event is still restricted to a very less percentage of people.

To improve this, I suggest that a mass SMS campaign be run two days before the next few "Bus Days", that is, on 2nd and 3rd of every month.

Since the traffic police is also actively encouraging the Bus Day, the SMS can be sent from the ACP (traffic) to all the Mobile phones in the city. This is the easiest, cheapest, and environment friendly mass publicity we can achieve.

Regards,

Ashok

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BMTC - S1 Route (Vijayanagar to Vijayanagar)

9 April 2010 - 9:14am — Ravi_D

Saw these buses plying on outer ring road near BTM layout yesterday & today.

Looks like an extension of Big10 concept, Big10 to Circle Routes to S (not sure what it stands for) routes?

Surprisingly, while the BMTC call center did not have any detail to offer, the buses seemed to quite fully loaded!. I got bumped from the call center guy to the control room to Vijayanagar Bus Stand (22952362). All were cordial, willing to help, but had no info to offer.

What's on FM radio about Bus Day this week!?

6 April 2010 - 11:54pm — jennypinto

Just to keep all in the loop about what's on air about bus day.... 94.3 , radio one, started Monday this week.

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Route Search is available on BMTC Website

4 April 2010 - 8:50am — kbsyed61

Happened to visit the BMTC website to check if anything has changed. Got a surprise to find that its link for 'Route Search' is active and it did allows route search.

Searched few routes and seems to the results presented were correct and useful. here is the link for BMTC route Search

http://www.yulopindia.com/bmtc//index.php/bus/redirect_to_route_search

Vinod,s8, srivatsava, manish, could you all pls check this out and report if this feature reports the correct routes and people can rely on the results for planning their travel in Bengaluru.

Syed

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Bus stands on the outskirts to decongest traffic

2 April 2010 - 9:20pm — muthusubs

Building bus stands on the outskirts of a city is a concept which has been widely developed throughout Tamil Nadu. None of the inter-state buses today enter the interiors of towns like Madurai, Tirunelveli, Dharmapuri and even Chennai has its bus stand quite far away from the main city centre though the city has expanded beyond the present bus stand.

Proposal to increase fares

31 March 2010 - 4:38pm — ss87

Following the recent increase in fuel prices,BMTC is planning to increase the fares.The same was published in the bangalore mirror newspaper of yesterday. Owing to BBMP elections and results the bus fares will be mostly increased once the poll results come out.

BMTC Issues - From RCA perspective - 3

30 March 2010 - 5:02pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

Few of the points mentioned in the survey (in second set) is about bus stands/stops.

1) Dirty and sad bus stands, do not like waiting there

2) Very hard to walk to and from the Bus Stands

We shall through some light on these items from RCA perspective.

Effect : Do not like waiting there.

Causes:

1) No adequate shelter(sad bus stands)

- Damaged roofing

- No roofing

2) Poor furniture

- Demolishing in progress

- Repair

- Damaged or vandalized

- Unclean and not usable

- Sharp edges or broken edges

- Very old

- No disabled friendly furnitures/path

3) Not Clean due to

- Spitting (Pan and simple)

New Mini Bus Terminal at Byappanahalli on Old Madras Road.

30 March 2010 - 9:49am — Sanjeev

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has begun inter-State operations at a new mini bus terminal at Baiyappanahalli on Old Madras Road.

According to K A Rajkumar, Director (Operations), the State-run corporation has constructed a small facility near the old NGEFactory, on a trial basis.

“We have commenced bus services from 19 March on a one-way basis (towards Kolar and Tirupati). About 500 odd buses, including Volvo will ply daily through the new terminus from the City towards destinations such as Kolar, Chintamani, Malur, Chittor, Tirupati and Chennai. The new facility also has 12 bus bays” said Rajkumar. KSRTC will shortly finalise introduction of BMTC onnection to this new facility

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/61031/ksrtc-terminal-baiyappanahalli.html

Poor publicity by KSRTC may be due to BBMP election. Now they should give good advertisment about this.

Feeder Routes as 'Branded' Service

24 March 2010 - 4:45pm — Srivatsava

One of the most publisied initivates of the BMTC last year was the intoroduction of the Big10 routes. On some routes, it was just a renaming of the route number, but it was always useful since it was 'Branded Service'. People anywhere can easily identify a Big-10 bus easily and a lot of people realise the routes that these buses ply on.

Another branding attempt from BMTC has been the 'Big Circle', for buses that ply mainly on the Ring Road. I happened to see a K-series bus on Jayanagar 30th Cross and this has been on Praja before. Vajra, Vayu Vajra and Atal Saarige have also been some other 'branding' attempts by BMTC.

For the two bus days (Feb and March), BMTC had made arrangements to run feeder services in select areas. Some of these are permanent in nature and not restricted to only a day in a month. There have been other feeder services (FDR1 to FDR-6 for the Uttarahalli/Chikkalsandra/BSK areas being one of the earliest). Why cant these buses be branded in a common way?

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