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Survey on first and fast mile connectivity to public transport in Bengaluru by B.PAC

November 26, 2019 Sharath SR

Rapid urbanisation without supportive mass transit and motorisation has led to drastic increase in travel times, loss of productivity and reduced mobility access across travel modes. B.MOBILE is B.PAC’s mobility initiative that works on research,

#ABetterHebbal Challenge: Citizens pitch ideas for improving public transport around Hebbal

August 29, 2019 News Desk

#ABetterHebbal Challenge was launched in consultation with BMRCL and DULT as a part of CiFoS’ umbrella for high impact, long-term city wide campaign called #ABetterBangalorean. Hebbal, a fast developing suburb was identiﬁed for the pilot.

Discussion on cab aggregators and their impact on mobility and livelihoods

August 22, 2019 News Desk

Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike, a bus commuters’ rights forum, is having a public discussion on the impact that cab aggregators like Ola, Uber have on mobility and livelihoods on 23rd August. Researchers on mobility, the

Mass public transit: 5 mantras for Bengalureans to learn by rote

September 5, 2018 Tara Krishnaswamy

Mass public transit: 5 mantras to learn by rote – Or, how to answer other people’s questions 1. Why do we need suburban rail in Bengaluru? #ModaluTrainBeku because suburban train connects the suburbs around the

A meeting to help rewrite the story of Bengaluru traffic

August 10, 2018 Srinivas Alavilli

From Davanagere to Denmark, they discuss namma traffic. From Shivamogga to Sunnyvale, silk board has a reputation. But how did we get here? Could it have been avoided? We believe so. Unlike any other metro,

Ideas at Work

The economics of roads: Are we missing the bus?

February 2, 2016 Ashwin Mahesh

Half the city of Bengaluru travels using 6,500 buses. The other half uses 55 lakh vehicles. This data points so obviously to what we should be doing, but unfortunately, we insist on spending enormous amounts

How the police helped in an incident of abuse by BMTC personnel

December 11, 2015 Deepa Mohan

Reshmi Nagendra writes: Last evening when I was returning with 2 of my friends in my car, I had one of the worst encounters with a BMTC bus driver and the conductor of that bus(K

Jugaad can be taken too far!

December 3, 2015 Deepa Mohan

I saw this “repair” of a broken window on a Vajra (Volvo) bus. Jugaad, or creative solutions, are all very well, but does BMTC really not have money to repair a bus properly, and

A bitter complaint against BMTC

November 27, 2015 Deepa Mohan

In spite of my writing to BMTC several times on this topic, I have never received a response, nor has anything been done. It was a rainy evening, I came out of Goethe Institut, Indira

Shortcomings in Bus Stop design

October 22, 2015 Deepa Mohan

I clicked this bus stop being constructed, and it seems like a good time to ask some pertinent questions. When there is so much space for advertising, why cannot BMTC (or BBMP if the bus

Ideas at Work

BMTC fare hike is irrational

June 17, 2013 Ashwin Mahesh

Public transport is subsidised all over the world, because the benefits are of more value than the subsidy itself. But the government has never tried to subsidise it.

Volunteer Diary

Hey, it’s car free day…

September 19, 2011 Pushpa Achanta

Do you know how much of the pollution in the world is caused by cars? Some studies put that at 40%. As a result, some across the globe have chosen to observe 22nd September as