"TTMC’s are planned to have multi-level parking lot, public utilities like mini-shopping centres and food courts. These centers in addition to providing park & ride facilities are also proposed to act as hubs for Mini–Buses planned by BMTC to transport the commuters from every major residential area to the nearest TTMC, so that commuters can board a bus of their choice.
"BMTC has planned such TTMC’s at the following 45 locations. Of these TTMCs at Bannerghatta, Kengeri, Domlur, Yeshwantpur, Koramangala, Vijayanagar, ITPL, Banashankari and Shantinagar are planned to be taken up very shortly. In fact quite of few these center will act as Intermodal transfer nodes and will provide logistic support to MRT modes like – METRO, Mono-rail/LRT, BRT & CRS etc. through Park & Ride as well as other facilities. In fact as the MRT network grows some additional TTMC’s may be required and in some case a slight relocation of some of the following TTMC’s may be required."
This effort seems one of the better initiatives. Will they solve or at least help reduce congestion ? -- remains to be seen. One such TTMC at Shantinagar has so far not helped in any way, though admittedly all the facilities described above are still to open up. Most of the visitors to Big Bazaar there arrive in private vehicles & leave without using a bus !
These are early days & with many more TTMCs under development, the concept, if understood & accepted by the public at large, might assist, though I am skeptical if such facilities will usher in a turnaround in traffic volumes. This is because unless car users (the largest contributors to congestion) are assured of travel out of clean surroundings, in convenience, comfort & a savings in time, these TTMCs might turn out to be nothing more than mini-versions of Shivajinagar bus station with a shopping market & Bangalore-1 centers added with the hope that it will help people to board buses & leave their vehicles behind.
If it doesn't pick up the anticipated enthusiasm & interest, real estate developers will not show much interest & only second-rung sort of shopping outlets might end up functioning from these TTMCs.
Echoing this, the private car & two-wheeler users will also shy away, other than to use the parking slots made available wherever the locations are convenient. Shivajunagar & Shantinagar parking lots, though have been failures as they are not at convenient locations for the car users.
What are your views ?
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TTMCs contd.
Couple of things that came to mind when I saw Naveen's (re)posting of the TTMC thread:
The concern is more, what keeps them from taking it further into the city.
My purpose here is not to preach to the choir, but to show how valuable BRTS/HCBS can be over other alternatives.
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Traffic Police Should Become "Ridiculous" to reduce traffic
To promote public transport and better use of this model, traffic police needs to be ridiculous in putting hefty fines more for rash driving and violations of rules such as crossing lane etc.
These hefty fines plus the increase in fuel costs will make people to think of these kind of initiatives.
As said by Mr. Narayan, car users are causing more congestion and grid locks. Car users needs to be punished more compared to 2 wheelers since their affordability is also higher compared to a middleclass man 2 wheeler driver. But, the fines should make them to think before they get their vehicles on the road.
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Public Parking above Shivajinagar Bus Station to be Closed ?