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Satellite Bus Stands - Will they reduce traffic?

12 October 2008 - 6:07pm — Vasanth

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?

1 Rupee Offer for Volvo in Mysore for Dasara - Problems to tourists

3 October 2008 - 6:00pm — Vasanth

This Dasara Season they started the 1 ruppee offer in Mysore from City Bus Stand to Chamundi Hills. Volvos were running full without space to stand even. Also they have introduced 5 rupees travel in Volvo anywhere in Mysore. 10 city volvos from BMTC has been sent to Mysore. How this will cause convenience to tourists?

BMTC's business-oriented outlook

8 September 2008 - 8:59pm — murali772

To compensate for the losses in the regular operations, BMTC is now having to look at newer and newer avenues, though in the process they may be deviating totally from their original mandate. The increased contract services for schools and IT sector companies, etc are a part of all that.

KSRTC and BMTC price hike - why?

1 September 2008 - 4:29pm — Vasanth

The recent hike in KSRTC and BMTC fares has made everyone think twice before using buses.

Public Transport - Bus service algorithm / checklist

30 August 2008 - 12:27pm — asj

My views on BRT have been known for a while on Praja.

I am not anti or pro any model. I believe a place has a thing and a thing has a place. First we must be able to justify BRTS on basis of need, then it should be implementable on given corridor (just being able to implement without demonstrated need is no good).

Here is an algorithm which I would use -

Pune BRT - 18 months on

29 August 2008 - 5:39pm — asj

Check this video out

Can we call this teething troubles anymore?

BMTC routes

2 August 2008 - 3:31pm — manvikar

Can anyone suggest me to a link where i can get info on BMTC routes & timings? www.bmtcinfo.com and its sublinks seems to be eternally not working. Thanks

Shirady Ghat damaged again!

29 July 2008 - 10:48am — mcadambi

We never seem to learn.... Shirday ghat is back to square one.

Neither the Bus Lobby want Trains to Mangalore nor does the Iron Ore/Lorry Lobby want a freight corridor. Both want to desperately use Shirady Ghat. This Shirady Ghat fiasco has become a symbol of how powerful lobbies have become in our "people's republic" of India. We we as a strong nation can rock America and the rest of the world by signing a nuclear deal, we do not even have to power to curtail lobbies in Karnataka.

Rationalising and Reforming Bus routes - case study

22 July 2008 - 5:35pm — asj

This is presented in two parts -

First a 10 page summary of a recent e-mail brainstorming over how bus routes in Pune can be rationalised. My arguments are presented as AJ in the document - http://better.pune.googlepages.com/Rationalising_bus_routes_in_Pune.pdf

Keep the saarige, let go yelli-iddira

21 July 2008 - 8:01am — tsubba

Understanding competition as a/the solution for public transit. Muralidhar rao's praja post is a starting point for the discussion on competizing public transport. The other day, during the PTWG meeting, when the issue of the pathetic condition of BMTC's website and demise of yelli-iddira came up, he broke into an impassioned and yet articulate speech. I cannot recollect his exact words, but his basic point was that BMTC lacks any competitive or regulatory pressure and hence the pathetic state of those services. The only way to get service levels to improve is to open its domain for competition. I have heard his basic position many times, but to hear him make his case in person was a friends,countrymen and romans moment for me. In any case, his speech got me thinking ...

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