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Estimating travel patterns in Bangalore - possible approach

27 September 2009 - 12:13am — s_yajaman

Have been chastisized by Tarle for pouring ATF on burning embers in a previous post and not using my praja time on more useful things :).

800 out of 4000 BMTC buses have bilingual destination boards

23 September 2009 - 5:27pm — manjari

Only 800 BMTC buses have bilingual destination boards, while the remaining 4000-odd regular buses have Kannada only boards. It is the top political leadership that appears to be standing in the way.

The Big10 routing concept

23 September 2009 - 1:45pm — silkboard

A book to group together posts that uncover Big10 related routing reform initiated at BMTC. Big10 is seen as an attempt to rationalize BMTC's routing scheme. Simply put, the concept consists of radial routes connecting peripheral areas with central business district, and the rings or local shuttles could provide angular or last mile connectivity.

KR Puram Bus Stand - Does it exist?

21 September 2009 - 9:35pm — Sunil Kumar

I would like to share with you all a bitter experience. On Saturday I was in KR Puram area at around 5pm & was waiting for a bus to Hebbal. It started to pour I would not believe there is no shelter for passangers to stand at all. It poured for over 1 hour I had to cross the road & stand under the ATM counter for a roof.

Big10 concept - Circle Routes are here?

21 September 2009 - 9:15am — silkboard

I have been seeing these new routes marked C-1 (for Circle 1 ?) for a few weeks now. Was waiting for some crisp annnouncement or press release, haven't noticed anything big yet, so posting.

Sustainable public transport system - high level requirements

19 September 2009 - 5:39am — blrpraj

This has been long pending in my mind after reading and contributing to various praja posts over almost a year. I took a stab at a document that analyzes the high level requirements of a integrated public transportation network for Bangalore that can ultimately cater to long term growth.

BMTC and possible open-market proposals or experiments

11 September 2009 - 10:08am — silkboard

We are coming off from this debate. Idea is to leave the debate, and talk specific proposals.

Meeting regarding BMTC

10 September 2009 - 9:27am — manjari

Start: 14 Sep 2009 18:30

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

There is a tentative meeting on how we can arrange a one day event like bus day etc.

We would be meeting on Monday (14th Sept) Koramangala around 6:30 PM. Mithila from BMTC would be joining this meeting as well and will help us in whichever way possible.

All those who would be interested to come please let me know. Once the time and venue is finalized I will inform everyone.

Illegal buses - Bootlegging in Prohibition?

8 September 2009 - 12:39am — idontspam

Illegal private bus services on the rise in Bangalore

"We do not have sufficient space to park seized maxi cabs and buses that indulge in such operations."

Connecting TTMCs - A possible approach

4 September 2009 - 8:19am — Vasanth

Last year, we had discussed about the various routing algorithms, we discussed about Hub-Spoke, Grid etc and came to a conslusion like this via TTMCs:

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