Wastage of JNNURM funds for City Busstand Rennovation?

One major problem in Mysore is the bus routing model. It is pure Hub Spoke. Just to travel to neighbouring locality, one has to goto City Bus Stand and Come back. If we get first bus, we do not get the connecting bus.

We need three circular corridors of bus routes, outer, middle and inner with buses going in both the directions for connecting neighbouring areas better just like 500 and 501 of BMTC Bangalore.

Here are the three routes that comes to my mind:

Outer  Corridor : JP Nagar-Vivekanandanagar – Ramakrishnanagar – Sharadadevi Nagar – RTTC – SJCE – Premier Studio – Jayalaxmipuram – Metagalli – Bannimantap – Udayagiri – Siddharatha Layout – Zoo – MG Road – Ramanuja Road – Vidyaranyapuram 16th Main – Sterling – JPNagar

Central Corridor: Chamundipuram- KrishnamurthyPuram- Kuvempunagar Double Road – Open air theatre-  Vinayaknagar- Gokulam – Shaalimar Theatre – Udayagiri – Gayathripuram – IttigeGudu – Nanjangud Road –Agrahara – Siddappa Square- Chamundipuram 

Inner Corridor :  Agrahar – RTO – Court – Saraswathipuram – University Caford Hall – Hunsur Road- Railway Station – Suburban Bus Stand – City Bus Stand - Agrahar

6 Bus Corridors

J.P.Nagar to Bannimantap via CBS

Vijaynagar to Siddhartha Layout via CBS

Vivekanandanagar to NR Mohalla and further via CBS

Ramakrishna Nagar to  Mahadevapura Main Road

Sharadadevi Nagar to Rajeev Nagar

Metagalli to GunduRao Nagar via CBS and Ramanuja Road

In Mysore, there is a major problem by not allowing buses to enter city bus stand in front of the Thatayya Circle and allow to leave the bus stand near the Palace End. In is from the Palace end and out is from Tatayya Circle - It is one way. To accomodate this, all the buses entering city bus stand from the South and West Mysore roam around Mysore Palace, Hardinge Circle since they have in only next to Hopcoms / Flower Exhibition.

Bus leaving out of City Bus Stand towards North and East of Mysore roam around Palace since they have only Out towards South.

This wastes lot of time of the passengers and consumes more fuel. At the same time it will unnecessarily reduce the frequency.

In should be allowed in front of Tatayya Circle as it used to be in earlier days and out should be allowed near the Hopcoms. To accomodate this we need a ramp or something like a 'Magic' underpass right in front of bus stand at the bus exits and entrances.  Otherway is to have a signal in these two points and avoid unnecessary roaming around Palace.

Because of this design, especially during Dasara Time, travel time  and traffic unnecessarily increases in front of the Palace which is already crowded.

I just got this thought while creating Maps.

 For the circular corridors, outer corridor is approximately 35 kms and it may take 1 hour 30 minutes to cover the distance. Middle corridor is approximately 25 kms  and may need approximately 1 hour and inner corridor is 15 kms and approximately may need 45 minutes.

15 minute frequency on outer corridor needs 6 buses in each direction and a 10 minute frequency needs 9 buses in each direction.

15 minute frequency on middle corridor needs 4 buses in each direction and a 10 minute needs 6 buses in each direction.

15 minute frequency on inner corridor needs 3 buses in each direction and a 10 minute frequency needs 5 buses in each direction.

For a 15 minute frequency we need 6 x 2 + 4 x 2 + 3 x 2 = 26 buses to start with. Gradually it should be improved with 10 minute frequency based on demand which may need 9 x 2 + 6 x 2 + 5 x 2 = 40 buses. At the cost of 20 lakh per bus, at 8 crores we can have such a good routing  with reliable frequency of buses instead of bus stand constructions and modifications. If someone has undergone six sigma certification, they must be knowing that customer value addition is more important rather than internal procedures of organizations. So much money spent by KSRTC for bus stop constructions doesn't add much value  to the customer.

These circular routes are non-existent as of now. Straight line routes like Bangalore Big 10 is already present in the form of  buses to CBS. There are few ring routes named CBS to CBS such as 129 - 130 but frequency is too less and everything enters City Bus Stand - not a truly circular route.