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Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation, formerly Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), is a state-owned public road transport corporation in the Indian city of Bangalore. It is wholly owned by the Government of Karnataka. It serves the Bangalore Metropolitan Region. As of 28 September 2024, it has a fleet of 6340 vehicles. [3]
Bangalore Metropolitan Region is served by Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation. Samparka Sarige: It is a non-AC bus service with 2+2 non-reclining seats built on bi-axle Ashok Leyland, Tata and Eicher with white-pink livery. It is a shuttle bus service between Kempegowda Bus Station and Mysuru Road Bus Station in Bangalore.
A foot overbridge connecting the metro station with platform 10 of the Bangalore City railway station was opened on 18 February 2019. The BMRC reported that monthly ridership at the metro station was 175,000 passengers per day prior to opening the bridge, and increased to 250,000 two months after its opening.
Track works and 3rd rail electrification works were completed on the 4.8 km (3.0 mi) east–west tunnel of the Purple line between Cubbon Park and Magadi Road and Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) began trials on 23 November 2015. The entire stretch of the Purple Line was opened on 29 April 2016. [28]
[4] [3] In 2018, Bangalore was reported to have the second highest number of two-wheelers in the country. [5] Bangalore's car density (number of cars for every kilometre of road), however, was found to be 149 – much lower than other major Indian cities. [6] App based rental motorcycles, bicycles and cars are also available for commuting.
It has found its application in medium capacity transport, but due to low efficiency and high costs, it has been sidelined in India. Example: Mumbai Monorail Regional rapid Transit System : This system is operated either between two similarly sized cities, which are close to each other or between an urban city and smaller cities lying nearby.
A suburban rail service existed in Bangalore as early as in 1963 for HAL employees to commute from KSR Bangalore to Vimanapura Railway station. In 1983 a formal suburban rail system for Bangalore had first been proposed by a team from Southern Railway under then Railway Minister C. K. Jaffer Sharief and Member of Parliament representing ...
TCI Freight provides basic transportation facilities like full truckload, less than truckload, small consignment, and over-dimensional cargo all over India. Apart from the road, the division also provides rail transportation using bulk rakes, containers, and wagons. TCI Express [2] (formerly TCI XPS) [3] is an express cargo division of TCI ...