Re: Public Transport vs Private Cars
Post: By 2012, once the metro is implemented, we would need more of mini bus (feeder services). BMTC may want to consider this while they place orders for big buses during coming years. Some of the other points which keep coming in news papers, but no concrete action is seen are as below. When will our people stand and wait near busstops which should be ideally located after 50 meters from the signals. Is it the problem of bus drivers or people waiting at intersections? Sometimes I feel that the problem is with intersections; so why not build intersections 50 meters away from busstops or where people wait????? To make matters worse, auto drivers wait for passengers before or after the busstops. Add more chilli to it – People come to the middle of the road by about 10 to 20 feet from foot path. Some of the roads can be made as left lanes for Buses and Autos. But we need to trim the lower branches of the trees coming in the way – like how mercilessly Bescom chops to their favour. Now trees have also become intelligent and started growing like a "C" negotiating the electric lines and continue to grow up without harming the high roof IT buses. Some of the sharp curves need to be straightened – Buses coming from Rajajinagar/Vijayanagar ND TAKING STEEP RIGHT TURN towards BMTC busstand near slum board junction find it DAUNTINGLY hard.
