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Hat's off to BMTC conductor and Driver of Airport route in Bangalore

25 May 2011 - 8:38pm — srinivas.muddap...

I would like to sincerely Thank Conductor and Driver of the bus route No 9/8 Bus No. FA 1762 for their humanity and promptness in returning my bag that I forgot when I got down at Kammanahalli stop without collecting my bag which had my certificates and other valuables more than items my certificates was most important without which I would have struggled a lot.

Bangalore needs commuter rail

20 May 2011 - 10:54pm — Sanjeev

"Commuter rail more economically viable than the rapid-transit metro network'

Namma Metro refreshingly different ?

18 May 2011 - 11:10am — Bengloorappa

Just happened to see the inner view of MG Road station in the BMRCL newsletter. (I cannot paste a link to it so have to embed it. Image Courtesy: BMRCL).

It looks refreshingly devoid of commercial jazz and has a soothing feeling to it compared to other Metro railways all over the world.

State of South Western Railways!

14 May 2011 - 9:16am — kbsyed61

Going through the minutes of the meeting for "Namma Railu Round Table Event at Cistup, IISc" last August 30, 2010, one get an interesting insight into mind and thinking of Railways. In this case, railways is represented by Bengaluru Division of South Western Railway.

BMTC pls compile - complaints and/or suggestions and send it

13 May 2011 - 12:44pm — naveen_blr

The buzz about buses

Coinciding with the city's spectacular growth, the erstwhile Bangalore Transport Service (BTS) transformed into the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) in 1997. Since then, its fleet has increased from about 1,800 to 6,000.

Trip Number : BMTC or any city transport

11 May 2011 - 5:56pm — Bheema.Upadhyaya

This is not new thing or research. But I am sure if a trip number is mentioned in display board it will help public. I propose to bmtc to include trip numbers in display boads.

Example: For bus number 378 Kengeri to Electronic City,

Namma Metro Smart Card - too few top-up choices ?

26 April 2011 - 7:26pm — Bengloorappa

Have been reading through the Tender posted by BMRCL on their website inviting tenders from Mobile operators to setup and maintain a top-up system similar to the prepaid top-up system http://bmrc.co.in/pdf/tenders/etopupof%20smart%20cards.pdf

Excerpt from the document on BMRCL's website -

Campaign for reopening HAL Airport

26 April 2011 - 5:16pm — sumi71

Dear All Bangaloreans,

Public Announcement System at KSRTC Bus Stand

25 April 2011 - 6:46pm — Navning

Hi All

Karnataka has seen a major development in KRSTC , BMTC and in their services.. A major investment has been made on luxury buses (Volvo, Marcopolo, Mercedes and many more) and also on the infrastructure on the bus stand, plus not to forget the GPRS services.

Online booking of tickets has helped a major commuters and mainly IT crowd.

Hi All

RTI response from SCR on MMTS

25 April 2011 - 4:07pm — idontspam

A few questions were asked of SCR regarding the MMTS suburban service of Hyderabad. Mostly to get a good understanding of how the entire system was rolled out.

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