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BMTC-RTI Meeting Minutes and updates

22 March 2009 - 9:33am — Rithesh

Meeting minutes - April 25, 2009

Participants - rithesh, kbsyed61

Points/Action Items-

Meeting with Prof.Ashwin Mahesh

21 March 2009 - 10:17pm — Naveen

As part of ABIDe, Prof.Ashwin Mahesh appears to have thoroughly understood all the limitations of having to deal with issues for commencing new city transport services within the existing framework of our polity & citizenry.

He touched upon prevailing operational practices & existing mindsets within BMTC as also those of the expectations of people with regard to BMTC services. He dealt with various issues in an extremely systematic & orderly way & explained all aspects – indeed in a most impressive manner.

BMTC Infrastructure Development under JnNURM!

19 March 2009 - 8:27pm — kbsyed61

Interesting information about use of JnNURM funds for the BMTC infrastructure. This information is available on BMTC website.

Updated: Big10 meeting with Prof Ashwin Mahesh, time 2.30 pm

18 March 2009 - 10:39am — murali772

Start: 21 Mar 2009 14:30

End: 21 Mar 2009 16:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

The interaction session with Prof Ashwin Mahesh, ABIDe member, will essentially be on his team's efforts at innovations in BMTC services, more specifically the "Ho-Ho, and Big-10" services.

Date: Saturday, the 21st March;
Time: 2.30 PM;

Bellary Road Big 10

13 March 2009 - 9:53am — susanth

Information first, cribs later! I finally managed to decode the mystery named Bellary Road Big 10. This one operates between Shivajinagar bus stand and Yelahanka. The route as I understand right now is:

Infosys to observe Bus Day tomorrow

12 March 2009 - 4:55pm — mcadambi

Infosys to have no car day tomorrow (March 13th)

Why so many buses on the Road?

10 March 2009 - 8:59pm — chetana kolli

"BMTC the ever progressing Gov org" Has anyone ever wondered why Bangalore city has so many buses plying on the roads?? Does anyone feel that the BMTC authorities actually conduct an analysis before releasing buses to ply on the city roads.

Tax Sops to encourage use of Public transport (BMTC) ?

9 March 2009 - 7:26pm — srinirao

About the above discussion on Poor response BMTC I have following suggestion where in a common man is encouraged to use Public transport by giving Tax sops to him by Governament.

Google Transit for Bangalore?

9 March 2009 - 12:10am — sanchitnis

Any idea about the plans for Google to include Bangalore in Google Transit service: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/text.html ?

sanjay chitnis

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Monorail's Ups & downs

6 March 2009 - 7:41pm — Naveen

Monorails or for that matter most of the mass-transits have not been churning out profits. Japan is the only unique exception due to their much higher standards of living & people's higher affordability levels to pay fares. Thus monorails have been profitable there. In fact, monorail makers have been forced to cut manufacturing costs for systems & are offering to install & run their systems as there had been no takers. Some examples :

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