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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.

Mysore - Chennai New LHB Shatabdi Experience

12 April 2010 - 4:50pm — Vasanth

This Sunday afternoon I travelled from Mysore to Bangalore on 2008, Mysore-Chennai Shatabdi with new generation LHB coaches. It was a very nice experience. I recently travlled between two cities a lot, mostly on road and it was very boring nowadays with too much traffic on Bangalore-Mysore road. Volvo and car travel as well take minimum of 2 hr 15 minutes from Nayandahalli (Bangalore city tip towards Mysore road) to Mysore.

Amazingly train took just 1 hr 50 minutes from Mysore station to Bangalore station, leaving Mysore at 2:15 and reaching Bangalore(Binny Mill) at 4:05. I had travelled last year in the same train but with older coaches, and it took 2 hr 15 minutes. The new coaches have made a lot of difference. We reached Nayandahalli within 1hr 40 minutes. Unfortunately we were not allowed inside the station, were halted with red signal near Binny mill and left inside only after 10 minutes making the journey 2 hours. Hope railways solves this problem.

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.

Local Trains vs Circular Rail For Bangalore

8 April 2010 - 5:17pm — Sanjeev

Analysis of last three months discussion and media briefing by Shri MoS K H Muniyappa and CM Yeddiyurappa shows that MoS is favouring Circular Rail and CM is talking of Local Trains similar to Mumbai.

Now we will see one more round of study by SWR / Railways for Circular Railway and wasting time on this. RITES study on Local Trains is not considered by MoS K H Muniyappa and no one is talking of this.

Do any one have the details on Circular Rail what MoS K H Muniyappa is talking. We from Praja need to do some serious work so that both proposal Local Trains and Circular Train services are sanctioned for Bangalore.

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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How about a public transportation Index?

5 April 2010 - 10:26am — silkboard

On the lines of this water index project, how about a separate group of people come forward to build a public transportation index for Bengaluru? Idea would be to build a single number, publish it month over month or quarter over quarter to show some trends on how public transportation related investments or policy changes are working for our city.

It is tempting to try a traffic and transportation index instead. But public transport is the bigger and better defined service that citizens want to consume. Traffic is a different beast, it caters to movement of goods and private as well as public means of mobility.

Unlike for water domain, transportation area may already have with lot of published data points. Further, thanks to a Wilbur Smith report for MoUD (Central Ministry of Urban Development), a lot of thinking too is available to borrow from.

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.

City Commute Survey

1 April 2010 - 5:44pm — bangalore-guy

We are trying to understand the preferences of people with respect to use of public/shared transportation for their daily commute in Bangalore.

Kindly spare 2-3 mins to fill the survey here : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S3NV9BT

Results will be shared with all.

thanks and regards,

Amit

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