Notes from Bus day meeting - tentative work plan
Submitted by silkboard on 3 January 2010 - 9:29am
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4 of us had a quick meeting yesterday (over skype, that is Praja style :) ) and here is what we talked:
First thing - we need help, involves mostly phone/online work, so wont take much of your time.
- Goal/One line description: Take the bus to work. If you didn't, tell us why (via an online survey)
- Target Audience: Tech, car/bike people, younger crowd (those who don't usually consider the bus for daily commute)
Here is the tentative workplan:
- Prepare a list of 5 crisp things we need from BMTC them to pitch in with for bus day. Ex:
- Local shuttles to 3-4 selected job areas, 8-10 AM, 6-8 PM
- Special Phone Number for route information
- Flyer inside/outside of all Volvo buses
- Big10/Volvo TTs to hand Survey form that day
- Get Traffic Police on board, be clear on 5 crisp things they should help with. Ex:
- Managing local shuttles on the day
- Hand out survey flyers/cards to Car Drivers at 5-6 signals
- Identify 3-4 tech areas, and connect with the respective industry associations. Help needed from them
- Mass-mail to employees in their companies
- Help with loca shuttle arrangements for the day
- Run Special Bus route information Kiosk for a week before Feb 4.
Relatd work for us (project members - need more volunteers join in if you want to help)
- Publicity
- A catchier name for the event ("Take the bus" good enough?)
- Online survey and event page
- Prepare a template email to be posted on NGO email lists and company BBs. (Need help here from people who can post on their company bulletin boards etc)
- Coordinate with BMTC/Traffic Police, basically, be in communication with them on the help they will be giving for the event
- Finalize 4 tech job areas, and figure out ways to connect to associations (ORRCA etc)Current candidates
- Bagmane
- Domlur/Inner Ring Road
- Intel Area (ORRCA)
- think more
- Get other NGOs etc on board for
- either help with logistics or,
- they may have the audience we want to reach
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Suggestion is to have 2 surveys?
SB,
If I am interpreting the minutes correctly, suggestion is to have 2 surveys, i.e. One for Pre-Event and other for Post-event.
This makes sense as it will help gather required information. I may suggest the following questions for the Surveys:
Objective - Get the top 3 reasons for which people don't prefer travelling by BUS for their daily commute. BMTC can make an effort to address these atleast for the camapign.
Objective(s):
Is this look good?
No, just 1 survey should do
One survey, which runs 1 week before and after Bus Day. Will keep it simple (see another task I created for myself in ths project), idea would be to find top 3-5 reasons people don't take the buses for their commute.
Once we get good numbers to take the survey, we will submit the results to BMTC to request action at least on top 2-3 items.
Discussion points from Jan 9th Skype Call!
Today, Sat Jan 9th, we had another round of quick voice chat session on Skype discussing issues around online campaign on Praja.
Points of discussion:
Stay tuned for more announcements.
NOTE: All are welcome to join the 'Take the Bus' campaign and contribute to the cause.
Need an easy way to find route numbers from home to office
Hello,
The main problem for a person who doesnt use the bus is to be able to easily find the correct bus route number from his/her house to the office and back.
There doesnt seem to be any easy / handy online resources to find this. I checked the BTIS web site. ITs ok but doesnt give the timings/ frequency for buses.
I feel this will be the biggest block to people using the BUS on feb 4th. We could may be have the BMTC folks help us in helping people plan their trips (atleast on Feb 4th).
KC
Absent timetable
I checked the BTIS web site. ITs ok but doesnt give the timings/ frequency for buses.
Right I checked that too... Timetable is conspicous by its absence. In addition I do not believe BTIS provides from stop to stop but rather from area to area. Which is fine but I need top be able to find the stop within the area also when I choose the bus number.
See BEST route finder
In contrast with what BMTC has done with www.bmtcinfo.com please check out BEST.
http://www.bestundertaking.com/transport/index.htm
For each route it gives a list of stops, fare between two stops, first bus timing, last bus timing and approximate frequency. Route maps can also be accessed.
BMTC should have left the old site stay till they fully updated all route details onto the new site. Even now Vajra timings are not accessible.
Srivathsa
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There is one way by which we
There is one way by which we can understand bus routes of Bangalore especially red board routes. Just my analysis of the various red boards . Going clockwise:
Kanakapura road: 211-217 going atleast upto Jaraganahalli/Yechanahalli
Mysore Road: 218-234 going atleast upto rajarajeshwari nagar gate
B/w Mysore road and magadi road: 235-239 wil go atleast to chandra layout
Magadi road: 240-249 series go atleast to Sunkadgatte
Tumkur road:250-265 series going atleast to Jalahalli cross.
B/w Tumkur and Bellary road: 266-275 series going atleast to Mathikere/Kuvempu circle(276 follows same but go via New BEL road and not mathikere)
Bellary road: 277-289 series towards Doddballapura and 297-299 series towards Devanahalli touching atleast hebbal. 401,402,404,406 going to Yelahanka satellite towns
Nagawara Road: 290-292 series
Hennur road: 293-296 series going atleast to Lingarajapuram
Banaswadi road:300-301 series atleast to Banaswadi
Kammanahalli: 302 series
Old madras road: 303-319 series all except 314 series going to K.R.Puram. 314 goes to BEML/CV Raman nagar/DRDO.Also 380-383 series go to K.R.Puram/hosakote
Old Airport Road:320-339 going atleast upto HAL
Sarjapur road: 340-342 series going atleast upto Agara
Hosur Road: 343-362 series going atleast upto Madiwala(Silk board if the bus comes via Jayanagar BTM like 343B,356Q,348B,348G etc.)
Bannerghatta Road: 363-372 series going atleast upto Bilekahalli.(364 series except 364G and 369,run via Jayanagar to Eastend and then go to Bilekahalli)
The circle is complete.
Black board:11-14:
Black board:
11-14: Banashankari bus stand
15series: K.R.Road
16-20:Jayanagar 9th block
24,25,27:BTM
24E,25E,27E,:J.P.Nagar 3rd phase
28,29:J.P.Nagar 6th phase
30-32 series:N.R.Colony/thyagarajanagar
33,34 series: Hanumanthanagar
36,37 series:Srinagar/Girinagar
43-45 series:Hanumanthanagar
60-65 series:Vijayanagar
75 series: malleshwaram to vijayanagar
90-94C: Yeshvantapur
95-96series: Kamalanagar via Malleshwaram circle
98,99:Malleshwaram 18th cross
100-104:Sadhashivanagar
107,108 series:R.T.Nagarand Ganganagar
110-114:Vasanthanagar/J.C.Nagar
129:Majestic o shivajinagar
131-139:Indiranagar
140-146:Vivveknagar/austin town
150:Market to Shivajinagar
161-166:Dairy Circle(Except 164)
164-165 Adugodi
170-173A:Koramangla
176:Kaval Byrasandra/RT nagar to Vijayanagar via Vyalikaval,malleshwaram circle
180:Kaval Byrasandra to K.H.B colony via Yeshvantapur
181:Jayanagar to Bheemajyothinagar via market
182:shivajinagar to padmanabhanagar
183:Shivajinagar circle via market,kathriguppe,Jayanagar
189:J.P.Nagar 3rd phase to Mahalakshmi layout
190:Srinagar to jeevanbhimanagar