Meeting with Mr Tripathy (BMTC)

The Malleswaram Underpass has now a service road which can be exclusively used for buses. I'd like to know if Mr. Tripathy and his organisation would be able to make better use of this facilitiy now.

In addition, BMTC should publish it's schedules on the net and in print in regular so that people could better organise their schedules. 

You are right Jammy, all the bus bays are underutilized. People complain that we want bus bays, but, they never stand in the bus bays to take the bus. They instead come to road to see if 'My bus is coming?'. When I complained the same to a driver in a BMTC bus, he told no one will be standing inside the bus bay, that is the problem he is facing.

Something should be made to make these buses stop in bus bays. Huge investment of bus bays is not serving any purpose.

I stay near CMK Acchukattu and I found the same. It is a very huge land underutilized. Land is such a precious resource in Bangalore now.  Basically lot of people travel on the ring road. This CMK acchukattu Bus Depot as well as BHEL depot on Mysore road can be made like a park and ride centre as well as prepaid autostand (preferrably shared autos with 5 rupees charge) to anywhere near depot. This gives good first mile and last mile connectivity.

This can also be used as upcoming Monorail station since Monorail will pass on ring road.

Here are some of my suggestions/queries-

Dear All,

I have a proposal, if somebody is really interested in helping BMTC and provided they are ready to help somebody can develop BMTC buses travel time countours which would actual bottlenecks.

Yep, this would be one of its kind done no where in the world ( i cannot recollect any study). The logic is simple:  we have contours (lines) joining points of equal travel time.  The base statation can be Majestic/ ....

The BMTC buses can provide their journey time ( say at 10 minutes interval) on all roads radiating from bus station. This if collected for consecutive days during morning, afternoon and evening can be superimposed on the map (to some scale) and lines can be joined to points of equal journey time. This would give actual represntation of congestion in specific spots . This is much better than LOS/PCU.... It actually indicates the catchment area of major transport hubs.

It takes time and lot of data (error free) of course ( GPS would do). Put the idea across Mr. Tripathi so that somebody can take initiative. I had thoughts of doing this a long back but had to move out of Bangalore.

Please read : http://www.linux.com/feat...

This highlights a smart card solution for ticketing in BEST buses in Mumbai.

We would like to know from the BMTC as to why we in bangalore follow a method of getting on and off the bus which is so different than the usual. Everywhere else, people get on the bus from the rear door and get off from the front door. But in bangalore it is not the case, only ladies are allowed to get on and off the front doors and the gents are  only allowed to use the rear doors.

This causes huge practical problems:

1) if you would like to introduce a system like the above link tells about, you will not be able to.

2) The bus spaces are not utilized well and the conductor has to keep crying hoarse requesting people to move away from the door and into aisle, but because people want to get down they dont want to move away from the door.

3) The driver doesnt get to know clearly if someone is getting down from the rear door, and many times this leads to mishaps as the bus starts moving just as someone is getting down.