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Bus Day - need an anchor from Praja side

15 June 2010 - 12:58am — admin

Few members continue to work in their own ways to support BMTC on Bus Day. But after the first few Bus Days, we have missed an "anchor" from Praja community side who could spend time with BMTC (via phone, email or meetings) to get details on next Bus Day, as well as pass our feedback and suggestions.

Calling for a Bus Day anchor from Praja communtiy side. Job description and perks if you will:

  • Get to represent all of us (Praja members) at BMTC. Get a real opportunity to understand public transportation systems and issues.
  • If needed, speak to the media to convey summary of our discussions and suggestions here.
  • Get your own special "praja.in" email id.
  • Control and Manage the Bus Day corner on this web-site

This won't be a job for life or anything like that, can rotate between multiple people as well if groups of people want to do this on a shared basis.

Leave a comment here to reply (that's the true Praja way, open and public), or drop us an email (admin at praja dot in) if you would be interested.

A perfect Bus Day this time, almost!

14 June 2010 - 11:11pm — silkboard

It certainly got better for me this time. Can't take the bus regularly to work because of the last mile problem (HAL airport to CV Raman Nagar, no bus, no shuttles to rely upon). So the Bus Days for me are Auto rickshaw haggle days as well.

But not this time. 314AA, a new route, goes all the way from Whitefield to Bagmane Tech Park. Too good to be true, but I was at my bus stop at 8.25, and a 314AA showed up at 8.30 am (as was told and promised by 'someone'). Nice Marco Polo equipment, 12 Rs only all the way to Bagmane Tech Park, aha!

The route is an iffy one though. Airport Road is one thing, and Kaggadaspura Main Road another. Spent 20-25 minutes (!!) to cross the narrow stretch near Railway crossing, and reached Bagmane bus stand only at 9.40 am. Got off 314AA, and hopped on to the Tech Park shuttle which circles inside the campus every 5-10 minutes. 9.50, in my office. Route Map here, red dot is where the that 25 minute jam happened.

June 4 - Bus day is on

3 June 2010 - 10:29am — silkboard
4 Jun 2010
Asia/Calcutta

Not much time to interface with BMTC for this month's event, though I am sre Jenny and some others have been on. The Bus Day is very much on for June 4th.

Bus Day campaign needs a named "anchor". If Srivatsava or Bharat or someone else can just keep in touch with BMTC and posting updates from them, that should be good enough. Once in a while meetings with BMTC too will help.

Bus Day - May 4th

24 April 2010 - 10:00am — silkboard
4 May 2010
Asia/Calcutta

Back to 4th of the month, May bus day is indeed on the 4th date of May.

  • What new experiements or announcements will we see from BMTC?
  • How has BMTC been addressing the volumes of feedback Bus Day event has been generating?
  • Will newly elected corporators join the Bus Day band wagon, and help BMTC improve its information systems and services?

Let us all take the bus once again on the 4th of May, and keep sending feedbacks, posiive or negative to BMTC.

 

Bus Day - feedback and Suggestion

23 April 2010 - 9:06am — Srivatsava
24 Apr 2010 10:00
24 Apr 2010 11:00
Asia/Calcutta

We have a meeting fixed up with BMTC to discuss the feedback recieved over the last three Bus days, the lessons learnt, the actions/initiaves taken by BMTC in adressing the issues and any suggestions that can be taken up for the further editions of the Bus Day.

Venue: BMTC Office, Shantinagar Bus Interchange

Time : 10AM -11AM.

BMTC Conveys its thanks to all the Praja Community for Bus Day Support!

15 April 2010 - 11:29pm — kbsyed61

Came across the news release from BMTC thanking all the patrons who have supported their Bus Day campaign.

A special mention is there for Praja and all the members who have been supporting right from day one. The release says

".....................

BMTC thanks all citizens who travelled by Bus!
 
BMTC is grateful to the below individuals/ associations/ companies for making Bus day a success!........."
 
"...... * Praja - Online Youth Activist Portal: Special Thanks to Syed, Pranav, Jenny, Narayan, Vinod, Srivatsava, Bharath, Manjhari and all the other members who helped BMTC behind the scenes...."

 "........Congratulations once again to the:
 
a) Teams who went to all these corridors to promote bus day and engage with the citizens
 
b) BMTC Drivers, Conductors and Staff for successfully supporting Bus Day operations  ...."  

This release is available here

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

 

 

 

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.

Busday:

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

April Bus Day - date changed to 7th

5 March 2010 - 10:04am — silkboard
7 Apr 2010
Asia/Calcutta

Can we try something different this time? Get celebrities in? Request some radio channels to publicize the event?

Watch for and join some planing meetings prior to this Bus Day. If you been watching so far, BMTC is here to help, listen and act. Use Bus Day as the medium to give constructive feedback.

Take the Bus, its your city, and your environment.

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