Bus Day publicity - We all can do it, needs only 10 Minutes!

I have sent the bus day flyer to over 40 people including my friends and office collegues.   And also i have put up the posters in my cubicle  so that those who pass by notice it.  Plan to  keep them all updated with routes or any other details as we approach the bus day.  Another suggestion would be to send a reminder mail on the 3rd of Feb.

regards,

vinod

my office is in mahadevpura around 2000 employees,   the bus day poster (with  slight changes done by admin ) has been circulated as e mail to all employees working at this facility. we plan to send a repeat email again.

I have sent mails to 500+ of my friends to promote this.....

Rajesh Henry

 Have sent it to all residents of my apartment complex  and a couple of my friends who are senior managers in their companies (IBM and Quintiles) to share in their offices and apartments

If BMTC can provide good publicity material I can have it displayed in our complex at all strategic places (especially the basement lift where people enter after parking their cars).  Unrealistic to expect me to print it out.

Also BMTC needs to get its website in order quickly.

Srivathsa

Even a fraction of the 35+ Lakh private vehicles staying at home will make a huge difference! Pretty awesome.

However, I have one fear. The bus services have grown manifold - indeed their growth has far outstripped the growth in population. Yet there are geographical, time-sensitive stresses on the system. Now imagine that going up by, say, even 15% on a single day because of a 'mobilization' like this. The newbies who dare to try it out tomorrow might be put off buses - wrongly so - for a long long time to come. 

Hopefully, BMTC would've factored in the increased traffic to a certain extent, and (I say this only pragmatically) hopefully not too many will hop on all at once. The shift does need to happen, but more persistently, gradually, and permanently.

OTOH, the conductors on the routes this is being done on have been asking people to spread the word!  I've admired the Volvo staff for their sense of pride - and this just reaffirms that. It does sound like the BMTC's taking it seriously. If they can get even a 100 more people to convert as regular commuters tomorrow - the whole exercise would have totally paid off. 

It may be true that BEST handles 45 lakh passengers with only 3600 buses, whilst BMTC handles a lesser 35 lakh passengers with 5500 buses.

However, BEST buses to most of the local train stations run overcrowded with people packed like sardines in a tin can with hardly any breathing space during peak hours (eg.Andheri, which is one of the worst areas with severe overcrowding) & this makes for dismal comfort levels during travel. Also, Mumbai local trains might transport some 6 million each day, but it's certainly not an example to emulate for other cities since passenger comfort is perhaps one of the worst in the world, for any public transport. Things might improve in Mumbai only after Metro /Mono, etc. are built.

The only thing for BMTC to learn from BEST is punctuality of buses & round the clock operations, with high efficiency. BMTC can improve in these aspects though efforts can result only in marginal improvements, since the city is a very large sprawl & the road system is also highly diffuse.

Office complexes /builders to provide shuttle connectivity to nearby BMTC trunk routes is the way

I think this the only sensible option worth exploring for the last mile question. Expecting PT to doorsteps is expecting a bit too much - in any case, BMTC cannot be expected to enter private premises. If this were pursued by employees, it can more efficiently address the last mile question, at least on side of the journey.