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BCIL's survey on Bangalore car commuters

21 August 2008 - 6:47pm — shas3n

BCIL recently conducted a survey among car owners who commute to work to find out whether they would be willing to consider a public transport alternative.

They have released the report (executive summary in fact) and it does have some useful insights. You can see the press release here, the executive summary PPT is available here and here is TOI's coverage.

Tumkur as satellite for Bangalore?

20 August 2008 - 11:34pm — Vasanth

Tumkur, so close to Bangalore - Just 55 minutes to 1 hour in Non-Stop Train, 1.5 hours by road (delay mainly due to Traffic) is highly under-utilized. Bangalore is growing like anything and the existing space is not sufficient. Tumkur can be well utilized as a satellite city.

Why is Bangalore growing towards Hosur - a city belonging to neighbouring state and why not towards our own city Tumkur? Townships as well as IT companies can be planned between Bangalore and Tumkur in areas that are close both to railway track and the bus route.

Unravelling Myths about Subsidies in Urban Transport

19 August 2008 - 7:16pm — shas3n

In a recent article published by Ashok Sreenivas and Girish Sant in EPW, they demonstrate that private vehicles get more subsidy from Goverment than public trans

Trains to terminate / originate from Cantonment Station

12 August 2008 - 8:45pm — mcadambi

Trains to either terminate and/or originate from Bangalore Cantonment

http://www.deccanherald.c...

BMTC and Rs 750 crores

7 August 2008 - 5:46pm — silkboard

BMTC has postponed its Rs 750 crore IPO for the time being due to volatile market conditions. But its never too late to look at their plans. BMTC had submitted a Rs 3000 crore plan tothe center under JNNURM to "modernize and expand its network to meet the public transport demands of a growing city.". The plan is (source: Livemint) "to raise money from the public to add luxury buses on newer routes".

Sarige Adalat TODAY (5/Aug) in Indiranagar

5 August 2008 - 8:49am — Ravi_D

Heard this morning on Radio that there is a Sarige Adalat @ 3pm in Indiranagar.

Just spreading the word for those prajegalu who might be interested. Found this entry on the Hindu online - "Department of Transport: “Sarige Adalat”, public grievance meeting, RTO office (Bangalore East), Indiranagar, 3 p.m.".

Thanks,

Ravi

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

I am ready to travel in these types of BMTC buses:

22 July 2008 - 8:32am

Vajra (Volvo) Only

34% (62 votes)

Vajra / Pushpak / Suvarna Saarige - No ordinary

22% (40 votes)

Any BMTC bus is OK for me

19% (35 votes)

Pushpak / Suvarna Saarige / Ordinary - Volvo is expensive

5% (9 votes)

Ordinary bus is enough - I need more frequency.

19% (35 votes)

Total votes: 181

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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 ...

Traffic & Transportation Policies and Strategies

18 July 2008 - 4:26pm — silkboard

Executive Summary of a Wilbur Smith study on Traffic & Transportation Policies and Strategies in Urban Areas in India is now available on the website of Ministry of Urban Development. The 20 page summary document makes a good reading.

Praja members would love the language, especially the terms like "slow moving vehicle index", "on-street parking interference index". Essentially, they have quantified stuff like "entropy", "edge friction", "turbulence" and "viscosity" that we often borrow and use here at Praja from thermo and fluid dynamics. Some equations for example:

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