Volvo City Buses in Bangalore
My friend, Maheshwaran, told me about the new Volvo buses being introduced in BMTC. I was initially taken aback. He showed me TOI Tuesday Jan 17th edition and on pages 10 and 11, there were 2 huge advertisements announcing the same. I quickly went over to TOI epaper website to download the images and share with you all. Here, take a look! Click on the images to download the original size obtained from TOI. Those of who are interested in the passes being distributed, please take a note of the advertisement from BMTC. To know some features of the bus, click on the advertisement from Volvo.
Advertisement from BMTC
Advertisement from Volvo
Now, thats a first for any Indian city! Wot say?!
posted by Rubic_Cube @ 1/18/2006 10:40:00 PM
5 Comments:
Good move !!! But I'd still be looking for more initiatives from the govt to decongest the traffic situation in Bangalore.
Maybe, a little late for Dharam Singh by now ;-)
These buses are very famous in sweden, where all local buses are similar to this.
And some small trivia about volvo buses ;-)
Interestingly this is the first actual bus by Volvo in India.
The long distance one B7R is actually a truck chassis on which they have built a bus body :-)
In south india, there is this prakash builders, who built the body for the B7R chassis. And in north some jahangir I guess. Dont recall the name
Nope... The B7R is not built on a truck chassis - I note that from the website. You can check that out as B7R platform is sold in other countries too. And the body is built by Jaico(Azad), via a technology agreement, in Bangalore.
The rest of the builder names are fakes if its claimed those are B7R chassis
Corruption in BMTC
BMTC has awarded a tender to a company called LVSE a subsidiary of smartedge infotech solutions ltd Bangalore for lcd panels inside the bmtc volvo busses they have not called for any tender and awarded all 25 busses calling it a pilot project for 1 year. For the outside buses stickering only 1 bus was given as pilot project, and finally the outside stickering tender was finalized at around 45000rs. But the lcd panel display rights was given away at only 18000rs per bus. It costs around 250$ for each of the 29” LCD advertising display panels (this is not lcd tv this is a LCD advertising display panel). If LVSE charges say 5000rs for a 30sec slot per month for a bus then it makes 6,00,000 six lakhs a month while bmtc makes only 18000rs. If this kind of corruption stops then may be it will run much more efficiently and can charge the passengers a lot less.
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