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BMTC - tight schedules leading to accidents

3 October 2009 - 11:20am — s_yajaman

Read this in DH today.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/28436/tight-schedule-leads-mishap.html

Quite a damning report on BMTC's irresponsible practices. I think quite a bit of discussion has taken place around this.

No takers for Karnataka Roads PPP - what happened?

1 October 2009 - 12:52pm — silkboard

Newspapers had reported last week, but a public notice from KRDCL today provides the confirmation.

Estimating travel demand - A different Approach

29 September 2009 - 7:08pm — Naveen

Further to ideas expressed for determining travel patterns in this thread :

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Sustainable public transport system II

29 September 2009 - 4:30am — n

First pass at adding to blrpraj's document as promised. Additions are in a different font ("Arial") and colour (blue); no modifications or deletions. Comments are welcome.

Estimating travel patterns in Bangalore - possible approach

27 September 2009 - 12:13am — s_yajaman

Have been chastisized by Tarle for pouring ATF on burning embers in a previous post and not using my praja time on more useful things :).

Responsible corporate policy on taxi drives

26 September 2009 - 9:58am — s_yajaman

Last couple of days was in Khandala giving a lecture to one of the big banks on supply chain management. Won't disclose their name for obvious reasons.

17% people walk in Bangalore

26 September 2009 - 2:00am — idontspam

Private vehicles in India account for 67.5% of motorised vehicles, carry 37% of the commuters and take up 67% of the road width. Buses account for 24.5% of motorised vehicles on the road and carry around 61% commuters, taking up 38% road width.

Any info on ORR between mysore road and magadi road

23 September 2009 - 6:00pm — Ramesh

Anyone knows here the recent updates of magadi-mysore road ring road. (http://bangalore.praja.in...). As per my understanding the ring road and its service roads are completed but flyovers at magadi road junction and mysore road junction are not yet completed. If anybody knows the status of these flyovers can mention here.

800 out of 4000 BMTC buses have bilingual destination boards

23 September 2009 - 5:27pm — manjari

Only 800 BMTC buses have bilingual destination boards, while the remaining 4000-odd regular buses have Kannada only boards. It is the top political leadership that appears to be standing in the way.

The Big10 routing concept

23 September 2009 - 1:45pm — silkboard

A book to group together posts that uncover Big10 related routing reform initiated at BMTC. Big10 is seen as an attempt to rationalize BMTC's routing scheme. Simply put, the concept consists of radial routes connecting peripheral areas with central business district, and the rings or local shuttles could provide angular or last mile connectivity.

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