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Intermittent Bus Lanes - an input for BPS

5 January 2011 - 10:55am — silkboard

Those of you who are coming over to CiSTUP/IISc on Jan 10 will get to hear about in from the Professor himself. But the "intermittent bus lane" concept that was demonstrated at Lisbon in 2005 could be a source of input for evolving Bus Priority System (BPS) proposals in Bangalore.

BMTC to introduce trunk feeder service on 21 routes

5 January 2011 - 3:47am — vlnarayan

The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) will introduce trunk feeder service on 21 routes with new buses and electronic ticketing machines by July 1 this year on an experimental basis for three months.

So BBMP, when to demolish the Windsor Manor bridge?

4 January 2011 - 8:52am — silkboard

Leave aside cutting down five hundred trees for a moment. Lets get into engineering and traffic planning specifics. What BBMP is trying to do is widen this of stretch Bellary Road. There is some justification, stretch from Mekhari circle to Windsor Manor is a bit narrow to manage four lanes of traffic. The Cauvery junction Magic Box is tight on space.

Time to Corporatise Autorickshaws?

2 January 2011 - 11:45pm — vijaypadiyar

There is a growing realisation among government circles that there has to be a big push towards promoting public transport in the country, together with steps to disincentivise private transport.

Mumbai has MRVC / MUTP, Bangalore still waiting

29 December 2010 - 8:13pm — Sanjeev

Here you can see how Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC), joint venture of Indian Railway & Govt. of Mharastra under MUTP :

Partners in MUTP -

Pushpaks getting converted

29 December 2010 - 4:02pm — ss87

Well one of the most horrible service provided by BMTC is the pushpak service-a single driver-cum conductor, single door, single passage with 5 seats in a row instead of 4 and is one of the least preferred bus for commuting in the city unless there is no other way to go.

Overloading in Autorickshaws ferrying school children

29 December 2010 - 12:11pm — E.R. Ramachandran

Bus Priority meeting report, BMTC, Dec 22

28 December 2010 - 8:45am — Naveen

The BMTC meeting was to discuss about Bus Priority along the 335E/G1 route (ie. from Richmond circle to ITPL/Whitefield). In principle, BMTC is keen on this project & we were told that there were a total of five corridors that they were looking at for such bus priority routes.

Acknowledge! (once you get DDC stickers)

27 December 2010 - 7:37am — Bheema.Upadhyaya

Hi DDC Pledged drivers,

Organize Mobilicity Workshops at CiSTUP

25 December 2010 - 4:43pm — admin

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Description: Group to organize Mobilicity workshops along with CiSTUP

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Praja RAAG

Some folks at Praja are working with CiSTUP to organize solution focused workshop on public transportation. The workshop is being organized on the sidelines of CiSTUP foundation day events. The technical sessions being planned are:

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