I have been put up in Kumaraswamy Layout. I am an employee in one of the IT company situated in ITPL. Related links: 2 Other blog posts on Volvo experience can be found and | My other post on Volvo Buses | My Report on Volvo India plant in Hoskote| Sample: SMSing YI V402B U to 9945634666 should return you location of Volvo that started from Yelahanka and heading towards Majestic Bus Terminus. Direction can be U or D, for UP (towards city(KBS)) and DOWN (from city to far). Route Numbers: V356C for Majestic (KBS) to Electronic City, V335E for KBS to Kadugudi, ITPL, V402B for KBS-Yelahanka,V500L for Banashankari to ITPL, V500K from Vijayanagara to ITPL, V2 for Majestic to J P Nagar etc. To use this service you should know the route numbers and send an SMS to 9945634666 with YI routeNo direction. You can avail BMTC’s elli iddeera (Where are you?) SMS based service to know the current position of various buses. Regular commuters will have a better idea on this. Despite the odds they are operating with reasonable reliability. You can use SMS based locater service (YI: Yelli iddira?) to predict how much more time a given bus may take to reach your boarding point. Because of Bangalore’s traffic and other constraints it is probably difficult to give a precise time table as to this bus will be at this point at this hour this minute. There is also a SMS based locater service. Update: Route 356C Timings (from KBS and Electronic City) here (Thanks VKT for the info).īMTC Website has route numbers, number of trips and departure timings. You can find the time table for all the Ordinary and REDboard buses here in the link below.:
VOLVO BUS TIMINGS BMTC FULL
BMTC is cashing on that very well.īMTC’s full window advertising on some Volvo buses (See image) is fully transparent from inside. People have lots of money circulating in their hands these days and don’t mind shelling out in the name of luxury and comfort. (Minimum fare is Rs 15 say for Majestic to Corporation that’s 3-4 times non-Volvo buses). A mike and an Ahuja audio system are obviously added additionally.Įnglish speaking conductors are employed for these buses. The console has an LED screen which shows both system generated messages as well as messages relayed by control tower. I believe this is an additional equipment incorporated by BMTC as this is not a standard fitment with B7RLE.
VOLVO BUS TIMINGS BMTC DRIVER
The driver has a rear view LCD screen with live feed from a camera. The AC is nice and melodious radio complements the ambiance. The 38 seated coach has 50% of its seats at extremely low level and rest at an elevated position. The 7 liter rear engine is probably too much for Bangalore’s roads and I feel Volvo could have considered B6R instead of B7R for intra-city buses (Both to restrict over speeding and increase fuel economy). The Vehicle body design is that of Volvo 8700 which is its European counter part. After huge success of Volvo B7R inter-city coaches Volvo launched B7RLE transit buses in late 2005 and Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) was one of the pioneers to use them.
Indeed, the comfort looks and performance a Volvo offers is not met by any of its competitors in the luxury buses segment. When I showed the photos of these city buses to some of friends in Hyderabad who had not seen these buses, their initial reaction was something like “is it in India?” “It is a city bus – a?” “In Bangalore all city buses are like this?!!!” New: Try this quick photo Quiz on BMTC Volvo