Bengaluru: Double-Decker Buses are a common sight on Jalan Bengaluru in the 1970s and 80s, but removed in 1997.
The only bus left in the BMTC fleet was used for city tours until 2014.
While the state transportation company, including BMTC, trying to reintroduce Double Deckers to restore nostalgia, plans have not come true.
However, Mumbai’s Best (BrihanMumbai Electric Supply and Transport) plans to induce 100 electric double-decker buses in the maximum city.
Removed in 1997; BMTC does not have a new double-decker PlanBMTC bus which is popular in areas such as Majestic, Indiranagar, Jayanagar, Shivajinagar and KR Market from the 1970s to 1990s.
In the 1980s, school children were decent-double ferry tilted near the Ramakrishna mission in South Bengaluru.
It’s a dent of such bus images among the public.
They were truly released from the road in 1997, except one.
In 2009, BMTC planned to buy one or two double-decker buses but it didn’t work.
In 2017, the Administrative Board approved a proposal to buy five double-decker buses for sightseeing services but the corporation could not get a manufacturer.
Officials said they had no plans to re-introduce the double-decker bus like now.
“Our daily passengers have been reduced from 36 lakh to 16 lakh.
Our focus now is to get back that,” said an official.
The KSRTC proposal in Cold StoragessRTC has identified the remote route where it will be worthy of running a double-decker bus.
The corporation feels a bus with a capacity of 82 seats – double the bus with just one level – will take higher income because the KSRTC does not need to bear the costs of additional staff.
In 2017, the Ministry of Transportation and Highway Union also focused on five potential routes for Double-Decker bus services – from Bengaluru to Mangaluru, Chennai, Hubballi, Mysore and Hyderabad.
The KSRTC bus is mainly attached to a wider highway and has less electrical overhead.
However, requests for existing services are less after Covid-19, so the plan is put into a delay.
KSTDC could not extend the Ambani to declare the Capitalsimilar to the London Bus Bus Tours, Karnataka State Development Development Corporation (KSTDC) bought six double-decker buses, whose body was built by the Bengaluru KMS coach builder.
Each has a seating capacity of 40 (20 seats each on the upper and bottom deck).
These buses operate when KSTDC launched the Double-Decker Ambari service in Mysuru for sightseeing purposes in March.
But it was hit by Covid-19 and had not been continued.
KSTDC cannot expand services to places such as Hampi and Bengaluru because of overhead cables and other obstacles.
Advantages * Double-decker buses can bring more passengers while occupying the same road space * Staff salary is the largest part of operational costs.
Double-decker buses do not need additional crews * Crowding in bus can be reduced by keeping social blasphemy norms * Can be used for Bengaluru Darshan, tourism services * Suitable for arterial roads such as outer ring roads during rush hour * Double-decker electric bus .
have fewer operational costs and are environmentally friendly challenges * electrical cables and telecommunications can block this bus; Tree branches may have to be trimmed * legs on bridges and flyovers * Some vehicle manufacturing is in the double-decker bus segment because of less requests * road conditions, gradients and curvature that are not suitable for this bus * are not worthy of the road due to round radius More than that ordinary bus * financial misery and reduced BMTC Ridership Mumbai might get 200 Moremumbai get his first double-decker bus in 1937.
The best has 242 double deckers in his fleet, which gradually fell to 48.
It plans to get 200 buses like that , including the 100 tenders have floated services launched in Kolkata Yrdouble buses last introduced in Kolkata in the 1920s but disappeared from the road for many years.
In October 2020, the West Bengal Transportation Department launched two double-decker buses through city heritage places.
They are equipped with CCTV cameras, panic buttons, automatic doors and destination boards
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