The reason I don't use BMTC buses

thats my excuse..however clutch riding in my car, I always envy the volvo riders!

Well, everyone as a reason to use car or private vehicle. So am I. There is no direct bus to my office. I have to change two. One on the ORR and second from ORR to Bannerghatta road (towards Diary Circle) near Jayadeva. The changing bus stops are too far and there is no proper path to walk between bus stops.

I am not expecting too high fi as volvo, newly introduced Suvarna or our age old Pushpak can do the job for me - but expecting to get the seat (no standing since I also have to carry my laptop on my back just like school kids carrying books!!).

As discussed and concluded, TTMC model with local shuttles is the ideal solution for BMTC, also the auto connect. This solves the problem of bus stand too far off problem.

Regarding Unclean and Crowded, more Pushpak and Suvarna PHS and possible Volvos need to add on.

Agree that slower than car or bike. But, 15 -30 minutes more should be OK.

TTMC concept that Narayan and others illustrated should be able to connect all the areas to others without going to Majestic / Shivajinagar / Market.

YI Tracking on mobile and Time Schedule PDFs on BMTC website should solve the timings problem.

 

Today I had a eye opening experience. I am in London for some time now and today while in central London, I was contemplating to take the underground train to my home when I suddenly noticed in the bus stand nearby, the bus to a bus-stand near my home was due in 2 minutes. I decided to take the bus then and there. Many of London buses are GPS enabled seemingly.

Realization dawned on me that in Bengaluru, I used to avoid taking a bus many a times since I did not know how long I would have to wait.

GPS systems seem to have become real cheap and even taxi companies like Meru for the Intl airport are using them. Now, if the buses are GPS enabled and their Estimated Time to Arrival are displayed on the bus stops, just imagine what a huge convenience it will be for passengers and this will only invite more bus users.

I remember silkboard once working to organize a meeting with Mr. Tripathy of the BMTC. Did this happen silkboard..?

Bringing in more buses, keeping them clean are all easy to do things. Getting the buses to be more predictable theough GPS will increase ridership and this help reduce the personal vehicle traffic.

SB, interesting observation. perhaps a fallout of congestion levels? would'nt it be ironic if turns out that thanks to the jams the playing field is leveled between buses and priv. vehicles! well not really entirely unknown phenomena. these things are dynamic games. the agents will react to each other and any change in environment. say they make sooper dense pubT network. pubT gets congested. roads free up. privT becomes more lucrative. if more people shift to privT, road become congested and pubT becomes more lucrative. things will settle down to some equilibrium. i am guessing 50-50 if really good roads. 60-40 is prolly the norm in most cities of the world. the important point is that roads and privT on them, will always be the primary factor in this equilibrium. roads will never go underutilized. i.e., congestion will never be eliminated. whatever the roads can handle will be occupied. the spill over is what pubT has to run with. and roads and privT on them spill over fast. a pubT network good enough to do 60 is a must. without it the city would collapse.

BMTC has said that it is introducing 200 more volvos in next 9 months. I would say stop it for BIAS. Current buses are enough. Put it for city service.

People travelling to Airport simply cry that there is no frequency .. blah blah blah.. I don't know why too much of concerns of an ocassional flight travel rather than day to day office commute. There are hardly 10% of bangalore population who travel in flight. Why such a huge and wasted investment with 2 or 3 travelling in BIAS volvo buses.

I would like to see these 200 Volvos chugging along the IT areas connecting directly to residential areas without touching Majestic / Market / Shivajinagar.