The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation is planning a new feeder service which will carry commuters from city pockets to major roads from where they can take buses moving to the central business district area or Outer Ring Road.
Here is good news for commuters who travel across the city every day hopping buses and battling traffic. Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is planning a new feeder service which will carry them from city pockets to major roads from where they can take buses moving to the central business district (CBD) area or Outer Ring Road (ORR).
This service will be different from BMTC’s Metro feeder service, said Ashwin Mahesh, advisor to government on transport, at a recent meeting.
Explaining his ideas, Mahesh said, “We mostly see jobs on the outskirts of the city, in CBD area and residential localities scattered in city pockets. People travel from one corner of the city to the other taking two, three and, sometimes, four buses to reach their respective destinations. Poor land planning increases traffic problems and pushes commuters to use their personal vehicles.”
His concept focuses on feeder services in smaller city areas which will link commuters to major roads from where they can board Big Circle buses plying on the ORR or Big 10 buses which move on straight line corridors from corners of the city to the CBD on MG Road or Cunningham Road.
“People staying in residential areas can take this feeder service and reach a major bus terminus from there they can hop on Big Circle or Big 10 buses. These buses will help them reach their destinations much faster and easily,” he said.
BMTC already plies Big Circle buses numbered C-1 to C-11 on the Outer Ring Road . And Big 10 buses ply from Old Madras Road, Old Airport Road, Sarjapura Road, Hosur Road, Bannerghatta Road, Mysore Road, Tumkur Road, Kanakpura Road, Bellary Road, Magadi Road, Thanisandra Road and Hennur Road towards Brigade Road, Mayo Hall, BRV Grounds or Cunningham Road.
Two commuters, when informed about the feeder service plan, hoped it would save them from their present plight.
“I take a bus to Majestic or Shivajinagar bus stations and from there take another bus to reach Mayo Hall to take a Big 10 bus to Sarjapura. If there are buses that take me to Hebbal, I can take any bus on the outer ring road which goes towards Sarjapura. It would be a much more comfortable journey for me,” said Priyanka Raghavendra, resident of Lottegollahalli.
A resident of Sumbramanyanagar, Vasu Nagesh, a student, said: “I was thinking of buying a two-wheeler as I have to change three buses to reach my work place near Whitefield, which is too inconvenient. If BMTC starts such a feeder service, I could take one Big 10 and one Big Circle bus and reach my office comfortably.”
Mahesh said the concept was on the formative stage and talks have to be held with the transport minister and BMTC on adding infrastructure. “The current infrastructure does not support this plan. We need more buses and BMTC is also falling short,” he said.
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