Hi there,
I had a think about whether I really have to put this down here under a forum. Then I thought may be this will help one of my fellow passengers one day.
I travel from Madivala (Aiyyapan Temple Bus Stop) to Shivaji Nagar everyday. I believe a lot of passengers commute in this route everyday, thanks to BMTC for their rewarding service of not providing enough buses in this route. How can I think of BMTC running a Volvo bus in this route when there's not even enough buses.
I travel either in auto rickshaw or get a bus (Volvo) from Madivala to Richmond Road (Double Road)and get a rick from there to shivaji Nagar. Normally, conductors charge Rs.15 for this travel ( ticket says, Krupanidhi college to Corporation Circle though). On unusual days, they charge me 20 Rs. I don't remember what the ticket says.
Then on these wierd days, I get into the 9:00 AM Volvo from Aiyyappan temple stop and ask for a ticket to this lady conductor. She'll ask 25 Rs, I'll argue saying that I travel the same distance for 15 bucks in normal days and 20 bucks in unusual days. Then she'll be like ' 20 Rs. charge Volvo gaadi-yil illa..' My Kannada is pretty bad as I'm an outsider anyways, she says something like that. And she will say 15 Rs is from next stop (St. Johns Stop) which is 200 mts away from Aiyyappan Temple stop. So, which means I have to pay 10 bucks to travel 200 mts. Good for BMTC, let them loot us and we public are here for them to rip off.
I don't travel to Corporation circle and I never ask for a ticket to Corporation Circle, I'm only traveling to Double Road and paying these extra money.. Hilarious, isn't it?
Let's hope things will change some day!!!
Ps: I have the ticket, if you want details
Best Regards,
Rahul Joesph
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Aug 25, 2015
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we are staying in nr colony nearby basavanagudi area. few days we are facing lot of problems regarding the timings of 32 bus i.e, starting from nr colony to shivaji nagar. there was one bus 32 comming from kalyan nagar depot reaches nr colony starts towards shiviajinagar at 7 and 8 in the morning and in the evening/night at 8 o clock. when we tried to contact the depot manager somebody told that the bus has been cancelled due to poor collections. but, it is an educated area each and every one have day pass or monthy pass. since passes are not free and we are paying for it. if they want better collection let them cancel pass system only at nr colony bangalore 19. most of commuters especially women floks face lot of problems who have to take long route after gettting down from richmond circle towards kr puram, kolar, hoskote, whitefield ulsoor, cvramannagar, etc., etc.
kindly please see that the same buses are available for office goers of nr colony and also we gave a letter to the concerned dept at bmtc at central office but therewere no response. this is for your kind information