Idea for Bus day event - bus only corridors?

will be great if this can be pulled off. But at least on the east side, main corridors don't have parallel roads that can be used as alternate routes for cars etc on that day. Airport Road, Old Madras Road, ITPL/Mahadevapura main road, Varthur Road - these are the roads where bus day will have impact. But can't think of alternate routes here.

One possibility would be to Take some stretches of Airport Road (or any corridor), and make bus dedicated lanes only for the bus day.

Like in Marathahalli - throughout Mhalli, railway bridge, market area - make one lane towards ITPL in morning, and one lane going in to the city bus only, can use plastic cone like thingies. See below

I am sure on other corridors also there will be crowded points like these where 1-bus-lane experiment can be tried on the bus day.

It’s a great idea to have dedicated bus lanes.  But first we need to make it work. Few simple actions can be taken to improve the traffic.  Should try this out on bus day.

1. Do not allow parking for autos cars or any other vehicle on the bus lane
2. Do not allow autos to drop or pick-up passengers  on bus lane.
3. Fruit & Vegetable push carts cannot be in the bus lanes  
4. Where ever the roads are wide,  make double bus lanes for buses to overtake each other,
5. buses should only travel in their designated lanes

Sorry, but just so that we don't get into specifics, this is about what can be suggested for a bus day event, a single day event.

Arun, good ideas there. Experimenting with two way ONLY for buses on those routes could be tried on the bus day. But it may confuse regular commuters as the buses will have to take slightly different route and skip some stands.

>>Corridors to allow only buses

I don’t think this would be feasible idea as it involve lot of coordination from the public and Traffic police and of course BMTC staff. I am thinking this from the perspective of Alternate Road Availability and bus drivers maintaining Lane Discipline and other vehicle crossing over the bus lanes.

Even in case feasible , bus commuters would be Maharaja for only a day and inconvenience to other mode commuters might target their wrath and might even lead to negative publicity.

In my view we need identify one/two corridors for bus day - - ORR /White Field Road/ Hosur Road . Then work on mechanism of providing Bus Priority Signals along with Traffic Police for the identified corridor for a day

• Dedicated Lanes for Buses at Traffic Junctions
•  Provide Priority Signal for Buses at intersections. 

And study the Traffic Movement for The day. (Video Recording at some important junctions ?)

Arun,

Have been thinking along the same lines.  Buses have been very badly impacted by the introduction of one ways.  Each time a road is converted to a one way we lose 50% of bus stops, 50% of road space, etc.  Which is why we see so many buses milling at bus stops on Seshadri Road, Residency Road and Richmond Road among others.

Buses going towards Jayanagar/Srinagar (2,12,18,36,43) can come along Seshadri Road, turn right onto Palace Road, come down KG Road (again wide enough for 1 bus contra lane) turn right to JC Road, follow JC Road and join RV Road.  Very few cars and bikes anyway drive on the right extreme of KG Road or JC Road. 

Buses from Indiranagar can turn right at Vellara Jn, come down Museum Road, turn left onto a contra lane on Residency Road and then head to Majestic. 

This will face massive resistance from the BTP.  The first objection will be - how do we enforce it?  Not practical, etc

Srivathsa

Please correct the date as 7th Nov.

Pathy