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BMTC's encouraging mini bus talk - good going Mr Parwez

19 September 2013 - 8:59am — silkboard

Amidst all the press that BMTC is getting recently, one thing that caught attention was talk of mini buses, shuttles and feeder routes. As we all know, feeder plans, and solid execution of first/last mile connects can help increase usage of BMTC as well as (future) metro.

Here are the bytes I have picked up (read in print, so don't have links handy, will search and add later)

Road Hump Records...

17 September 2013 - 7:14am — wgwwd

As said in another post, I tried to create a road hump record using my basic andriod phone which just costed me 6.7k. I just mentioned cost to tell how valuable a phone can be, if it can be used constructively. 

The road humps are plotted in google maps, real time.. Also data can be saved in internet.

Isnt poverty a state of mind?

16 September 2013 - 5:42pm — wgwwd

Well, many of you may feel, this is a political/controvesial thingi. But I wanted specifically to analyze from an ordinary "Praja's"(Mr.Common Man) view.

Someone said :

Poverty is just a status of mind.

He also said :

BMTC's Trunk & Feeder services

16 September 2013 - 1:42pm — murali772

BMTC has at long last announced commencement of the Trunk & Feeder Services (check here), which was what was envisaged when the Big-10 services were started.

BMTC losing out on outdoor advertising revenues?

15 September 2013 - 6:00pm — silkboard
You see colorful, big, bright, and sometimes visually polluting hoardings, legal as well as illegal, crowding out road side air space almost everywhere in Bengaluru. The cacophony of imagery and colors tells you that there is decent demand for outdoor advertising.

Save women commuters from sexual harassment in BMTC buses - suggestion

15 September 2013 - 10:50am — Vasanthkumar My...

Women commuters are the silent sufferers of certain harassments being meted out to them during their journeys in BMTC buses. With uncontrolled influx of people into Namma Bengaluru,  more and more people are using the BMTC buses.  One can find young women rushing to board buses, however crowded they may be, with the sole intention of reaching their destinations.

BIAL Airport Concession Agreement, Its future exapansion, UDF charges, No infusion of Capital by Promotors

14 September 2013 - 4:48pm — Sanjeev

Here we have the Concession Agrement signed between BIAL Managment and GOI  on 5th July'2004

Artilce 5.2.1  and 5.2.2  of page 22 gives Exclusivity :

Fresh rent-seeking avenue for BESCOM staff

12 September 2013 - 6:56pm — Chandru.p

Most apartment complexes have so far been tapping from their common area power connections for the in-house utility service centres (kirana shop, ironing shop, etc), which are generally outsourced to local vendors. That way, they have been enjoying the benefit if domestic tariffs for the power needs of these services.

Maaru - Mola - Still the length measuring standard used

11 September 2013 - 8:27am — Vasanth

In Markets of Bangalore or else where in Karnataka, for measuring the length of flowers, people still use age old 'Maaru', a full length of the arm, or 'Mola', half length of arm and do lot of cheating. None uses a metre scale and measure the same.

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