kaalanjimedu srinivasan drsundaram 09:50 AM, October 27th, 2009

Many BMTC buses are running with one man management i.e driver cu driver. The regular users of such buses are reluctant to board such buses as they know the time delay in reaching their places because driver is doing dual role thereby defraying more time to commute. This results in loss of revenue to Dept. Secondly the "one man" is not mentally able to concentrate on driving alone as he is pulled by additional responsibilities of collecting the fare,issuing tickets and also returning balances amount etc etc. Considering the points stated above what worth is to continue such services with one man to perform two roles.

S.Srinivasan 07:48 PM, October 28th, 2009

I have observed the driver having the bunch of tickets in his hand while driving . This is a dangerous trend as hisattention is not fully on the traffic or public crossing the road in front . The passengers have to wait for a long time in each stop for passengers to alight and get in and take tickets at the narrow entrance of the bus .
It is time BMTC adds one Conductor and provide another door at the center of the bus for better efficiency of the service.
S.SRINIVASAN

Meera K 02:48 PM, November 4th, 2009

Called up the PRO (BMTC) Dr G G Hegde in this regard. He said, "We have taken a decision to remove this. It has invited a lot of problems now. But I don't think we should concentrate on this now since an internal decision has been taken to change this. Once the recruitment process is over, it will change".
It would be good to find out how many such buses are there and when exactly the recruitment will get over.
Dr Hedge's contact numbers are 22952516/9480815972 (Src: http://www.bmtcinfo.com/site/BSOfficersList.jsp)

Shivayogi Gajare 01:23 AM, November 8th, 2009

hi, well i have a different opinion to this situation. I was very astonished when such a servise was started as the similar thing happens in Dubai and many other countries. The driver himself takes the role of a conductor. The advantages of these are that the number of people employed by the bus company is less and then that reduces the cost of the company, thereby reducing the running cost of the service which has a direct implication on the bus fares. Although, the services there in dubai is such that to make the issuing of the ticked faster they have installed ticked dispensers on which all the driver has to do is puch in the destination code as the meter would have already calculated the place of embarkment. i initially hoped that soon such a system would be in place here in bangalore too, considering the rapid internationalization of b'lore's public transport, which however does not appear to be happening. So instead of enforcing the bodies to install a regularly paid conductor, compell them to install a ticked dispenser in which all the driver has to do is to enter the destination code of the passesner and the the machine in itself calculates the fare and the driver simply collects the cash and offer the dispensed cash with change. This will save enough time and also bare a redused cost of travelling.