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'BMTC tweaks fares to fleece commuters'!?

14 October 2010 - 4:12pm — silkboard
BusPublic Transport

Vasanth, Pathy sir and some others have always complained that BMTC fares are too high. Two senior citizens from Marathahalli claim that BMTC is charging far higher than prescribed fares. From the Hindu: http://www.thehindu.com/t...

G1/Old Airport Road - corridor detail, files

13 October 2010 - 9:06am — Naveen
BusPublic Transport

See leading note (below) from earlier discussion, and also the attached files on corridor detailing, and signal cycle times.

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Exclusive bus lanes might not be necessary on old Airport rd because :

"Bus Priority System" - pilot G1/333

12 October 2010 - 6:28pm — silkboard
Project number:3815
Opened by:silkboard
Opened on:Tuesday, 12 October 2010 - 6:28pm
Last modified:Wednesday, 31 August 2011 - 9:00am
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Concrete proposals to speed up public buses on roads of Bengaluru
Initiator: 
Praja RAAG

A serious switch to public transport (PT) can be triggered if PT can move at closer or better effective speed compared to cars/mobikes. Buses are prime mode of PT in Bengaluru, and would be so for near future.

Centralized data in RTO - Filing RTI with Transport Commissioner

12 October 2010 - 12:03pm — kbsyed61
EnforcementTraffic

I am getting ready to file some RTI's with transport department to find out the state of centralization motor vehicle data and use of same by RTOs. The Transport department's website (http://rto.kar.nic.in/) mentions about computerization of  records.

Suranjan das road widening ... silver oaks cut!

12 October 2010 - 12:17am — srinidhi
Infrastructure

I was completely taken aback when I saw stumps of the tall silver oaks in front of HAL engine div today morning..

Did some checking and found that

http://tenders.indiamart.com/details/582179824/ 

RTO Bangalore: My quest for answer has begun

11 October 2010 - 9:08pm — raghavv
Governance

After avoiding dealing with government offices all these years, finally I am in the trap. Needed to visit RTO to renew my DL. After 2 trips to RTO I am still not able to prove to the officials where I stay. As per the RTO, I need some govt agency (be it LIC, BSNL, BESCOM, KEB) giving me my proof of my residence.

Ask Me service - Query on BMTC routes

11 October 2010 - 5:39pm — ss87
BusPublic Transport

Based on major discussions in praja we have seen that the main issue in switching over to public transport is not knowing the routes of the buses as majority board are in Kannada only. Hence I just thought of starting this blog where any query regarding BMTC routes would be answered.

BMTC route allottment - sheet attached

10 October 2010 - 11:36pm — ss87
BusPublic Transport

BMTC has recently launched a document providing the red board bus routes an dnumber of buses allocated to it along with the number of trips-though timings havent been provided I think we can make use of it a bit

I have attached the document along with the file-please go through the same

Blind, but still reaching out to his countrymen via UIDAI!

10 October 2010 - 8:33am — kbsyed61
Governance

Read Mr.Iqbal's story of courage, inspiration and sacrifice.

How well somebody has said " "The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse."



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