The new KSRTC bus designs are plain sad
The design language and colours chosen for the new KSRTC buses are substantially diluting KSRTC’s brand identity.
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India needs to figure out Travel/Transit cards
India needs to mandate travel/transit cards for all types of public transport across the country to make travel easier and frictionless.
Kerala KSRTC Starts Regular Electric Bus Services
Kerala KSRTC operates electric buses on regular timetables on urban and inter-city routes. Ten buses run daily services between Trivandrum and Ernakulam.
#SaveKSRTC: The Pension System is Killing it
Kerala’s great KSRTC saga continues unabated. For the past three decades, the beloved people’s transportation corporation has been lurching from crisis to crisis, mostly of the financial nature, facing problems in everything from over staffing to buying diesel and spare parts to paying pensions and salaries. The present problem relates to pensions. There are thousands…
The Foolish Controversy Over the Aarey Metro Depot
Aarey is a neighbourhood in the northern Mumbai suburb of Goregaon. Aarey houses the famous Aarey Milk Colony and is famous for being a green zone, a lung space full of trees and greenery, a treasure indeed in a world where cities are incessantly being rid of their green cover under the guise of “development” by unscrupulous…
Will the Trump Train Trump the Train?
How the 45th US president-elect and the issues that dominated his high-voltage election campaign will actually turn out as a matter of policy continue to be subject to intense speculation. However, drowned out by all the din about the wall, illegal immigrants, Muslims, ISIS or trade pacts, there were a lot of other issues that…
On Dynamic/Surge Pricing: There is no Free-Market
There are a lot of things in the world that we obey and take for granted without questioning, many of which are natural laws created by forces we don’t fully understand: the laws of quantum physics, Hydrogen and Oxygen combine to form water, girls fall for jerks, Rahul Gandhi. Then there are some laws that…
To All Those Who Deride BMTC and Public Transport
The general contempt and hate the so-called new-generation upwardly mobile, MNC-employed, high-flying, English-speaking, car-driving, snobby, westernized self-appointed hypocritical middle-class Indians (but who are in reality the elite 2% of the Indian society; like for instance, Bangalore’s IT-coolie crowd) have towards public transport is well-known. It is explicitly visible on many levels and platforms, from casual office banter…
India, Do NOT Reduce Petrol Prices Please!!
As we all know, Crude oil prices have reached historical record low levels with prices touching $30 a barrel for the first time in 12 years! Oil prices have been in free fall since June 2014 when it was $105 a barrel, up front a ever-historic high of $143 in June 2008. Apparently this oil…
Bengaluru Darshana – Wandering Around Bangalore
It was June 07 2015, Sunday. It was bright and sunny at 30 degrees and the sky was a deep blue with sparse white clouds, the kind of summer day which would be criminal to spend indoors. Long stuck in the frustrating 10 km box that included home, office and the ring road in between, where there…
Creative Destruction in Bangalore’s Auto/Taxi Sector
I don’t think anyone in India needs any introduction to the social menace called autorickshaws, especially so in Bangalore. They and their drivers are Bangalore’s universally most despised creatures, the hate spreading across class, income and social status, bridging even the great IT/non-IT divide. Much of the complaints against them are on what they charge (if they agree…
How to Modernize and Save (Kerala) KSRTC 2
Kerala’s once-prosperous and mighty “Red Elephant” (aanavandi) is all but skin and bones today, but nursing it back to health is not Mangalyaan-science as explained in the previous chapter. However, there is a much deeper reason behind KSRTC’s present crisis than simple financial travails. Without fixing that, any kind of solution implemented will only be temporary. In the last…
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