Hello,
A few thoughts and suggestions on the BMTC Bus services in the Whitefield-KR Puram- ORR areas.
1. Whitefield Saarige (WFS) service - At the outset, this is an excellent idea and it should be promoted more. But the current WFS routes are duplication of existing 500/335/333 routes. That is, the buses start from Marathahalli and go towards ITPL via either of the two routes.
Suggestion - Change route of WFS-2 to : KR Puram --> Hoody Circle --> right turn --> Graphite India --> Brookefields --> Left turn at Kundalahalli gate --> Till Forum value mall on Varthur Road.
Advantages - Varthur Road to KR Puram Tin factory connection; No duplication with any existing routes.
2. ITPL - Koramangala - Dairy circle - Jayanagar 4th Block service - Currently there is only 411L which goes from ITPL to Shanti nagaar via K'gala. This service is very infrequent. Lot of IT people stay in K'gala and I guess there will be good patronage for this service if frequency is increased and it is well-publicised.
3. Vijayanagara - Vijayanagara circular routes (S-1 and S-2 routes) - I see a few Tata-Marcopolos running on this newly created circular routes. The S-2 route (Vijayanagara --> thru the city/old airport road --> marathahalli --> right turn --> ORR --> Belandur --> Agara --> CSB --> Vijayanagara ) is a duplication of the 500 series of buses from Marathahalli onwards. Instead, make S-1, not as a circular route, but as regular service from Belandur to Vijayanagara thru Marathahalli/Old Airport road. With the existing fleet of buses, frequency can be doubled thus ensuring more reliability. There is a demand for buses from the IT corridor in Belandur towards old airport road and this new route can cater to this demand.
Other Praja members can comment and give suggestions to BMTC.
regards
Ashok
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