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  • July Bus day - My best bus experience yet!!

    7 July 2010 - 9:09pm — Srivatsava
    BusPublic Transport

    To me, today was the best bus day experience till-date. I travel by bus pretty often, so i must add that I have not had any more comfortable experience before.

    I dont travel on the Bus Day focus corridors, travelling from Girinagar to office near Forum mall. I can travel by just one change (two buses), but always prefer to change more often than wait for specific buses. I just take any route that goes in the direction I am headed to.

    Left home near Girinagar at 7:55AM. Reached the bus stop in no time. Had breakfast at a darshini bang next to the bus stop. Less than a couple of minutes of wait (8:05AM), I had a majestic bound bus arriving at the bus stop. Got down at Hanumantanagar and took a Shivajinagar bound bus (no wait time today, but usually 3-5 mins wait there). Got down at Lalbagh main gate, and in about 30 seconds time boarded a Anekal bound bus. Got down at Forum Mall a little before 8:40AM and walked into office by 8:45AM...

  • Conductors of BMTC reusing already sold or old tickets.

    7 July 2010 - 1:25pm — Akshara
    BusPublic Transport

    I happen to take the BMTC bus everyday to my office, however recently i encountered a situation where the conductor handed out a used ticket to me instead of tearing a new ticket from the foil. By the look of the ticket even a lame man could say that its an old ticket with traces of sand and dirt and torn edges. When i questioned him about the issue of old ticket he refused to accept his mistake and said it to be a freshly torn ticket. I was so helpless and did not get support from any of the so-passengers and had to return with the same ticket. This has not happened only to me and when discussed with some of my friends, they also complained of having faced the same issue earlier.

    These conductors are not only causing a loss to the BMTC but also to the passengers, the situation is worse when some illiterates or school children alight the buses, many a times the conductors take the money and not issue the ticket for short distances thus pocketing the extra money into their personal account which actually belongs to the BMTC.

    This could rather be called a daylight theft.

    Some authority needs to look into this and get this right immediately...

  • Corruption in the BMTC - Tickets

    7 July 2010 - 12:28pm — Supraja
    BusPublic Transport

    Tickets not issued in BMTC buses -  The conductor asks commuters to opt for ticketless travel, by paying an amount lesser than the ticket value. Surprisingly, this is a regular practice.

  • BMTC - Interactive Maps Project

    1 July 2010 - 3:01pm — admin

    Book to hold together all other wikis and posts related to the crowdsourcing driven BMTC Maps project. Edit this wiki page as the project grows.

  • Crowdsourcing: BMTC Vajra Route info database - II

    1 July 2010 - 1:25pm — shekhar_mittal

     

    A few folks at Praja are trying to create some handy, cool and easy to understand maps for buses. In the initial phases their focs is on the volvo routes.

    Attached is the completed vajra map. The plan is that there will be one more map/side which will accompany this map, which shows each route individiually in a straight line - showing ALL the stops. Now to create this map, we need to collect data regarding the list of all the stops the bus stops at. This complete info is not mentioned on the BMTC site.

    Can we do this true Praja style? Below is the SECOND list of bus routes. The First list can be found here We need to make sure that all the bus stops covered by the route are covered in "via places".

    How to fill the table?

  • Callous Attittude of BMTC Authorities - No ownership of work -highly deplorable.

    30 June 2010 - 9:31am — Neeyathi_hemmige
    BusPublic Transport

    Hi Prajas,

    The BMTC bus fares have been hiked... and the monthly pass with the new revised rates have still not reached the pass-counters be it at BMTC major bus-stands (Majestic,Shivajinagar, KR Market) leave alone other bus-depots.

  • Crowdsourcing: BMTC Vajra Route info database - I

    29 June 2010 - 1:17pm — admin

    A few folks at Praja are trying to create some handy, cool and easy to understand maps for buses. In the initial phases their focus has been on the volvo routes.

  • Which monthly pass should i prefer... help me.

    29 June 2010 - 10:29am — ikalci007
    BusPublic Transport

    Hi all,

    I have to travel daily from Kovempu Circle (near BEL Circle) to Rammurthy Nagar Signal (near K.R Puram tinfactory), now i want to take a monthly pass for this. I want to know that is in this route Black board pass valid or not? I have confusion in Black board pass and other pass. Should i take Black board pass or other pass?

    Suggest me!!!

  • Bus Day Campaign - Need Minds & Hands!!

    24 June 2010 - 6:59am — Srivatsava
    BusPublic Transport
    26 Jun 2010 08:30
    26 Jun 2010 10:00
    Asia/Calcutta

    Heres some fun activity followed by lot more fun activity!!

    Update: The video campaign is put off for now. A separate notification will be posted on Praja whenever it happens!! The effort to meet and get the buy-in of corporators will go  ahead as planned.

    Event 1: Video Campaign

    We have to build some short videos as Bus Day online campaign material. The intent is to showcase advantages of taking the bus, in short and crisp videos (may be 10 sec to 1min duration). The 'shoot' is planned for Saturday, 26th June from 8:30am to 10am. We need volunteers to enact in the clips. We need men and women - old, young & middle-aged, able to speak 'minimal' English or Kannada. And yes, ideas and storylines for the videos are also welcome. Hope to see atleast 10 people!!

    Venue: Shantinagar Bus Stand (tentative). From there, we may hop on to a 'exclusive' Bus to shoot the videos!!

    And yes, We need a good camcoder and a interested/skilled 'video'grapher. Any volunteers?

    Event 2: Corporators Campaign!!

  • July Bus Day - moved to 7th July

    23 June 2010 - 9:01pm — Srivatsava
    BusPublic Transport
    7 Jul 2010
    Asia/Calcutta

    Folks, get ready to take the Bus again!!

    July Bus day will NOT be on the 4th of July, since its a Sunday. Instead, it will be on Monday, the 5th of July. 7th July, moved out in light of Bharat Bandh.

    This time round, there are two more corridors being added for Bus Day, making it a total of 7 corridors. The list of corridors

    1. Old Madras Road
    2. Old Airport Road
    3. Sarjapura Road/ORR,
    4. Hosur Road
    5. Bannergatta Road
    6. Tumkur Raod
    7. Mysore Road

    As usual, don't forget post your experinces here on Praja!!

     
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