Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy and Prof Rajeev Gowda, Vice Chairman of the State Institute for the Transformation of Karnataka inaugurated 35 feeder BMTC Metro buses.
These buses are expected to facilitate the connection to the new purple line section from KR Pura station to ORR (Silkboard) and Whitefield that is functioning since 9 October, 2023.
“CEOs taking this ride is symbolic. They don’t need to. It is the 95% of employees in any organisation that need to.” highlights Das talking about the fight against congestion.
However, Ravi Chandar, who works on city causes disagrees. “CXOs and CEOs have to walk the talk. They must adopt public transport to ask that off employees,” he insists.
“Earlier the population of the city was less. Now it is about 1.4 crore. With connectivity, more people will travel in the metro.” Ramalinga Reddy, Transport Minister shares.
“My fervent hope is that the feeder service will lead to a demand. With a market bus manufacturer will launch specialised buses, which will be economical,” Chandar explains.
“The Whitefield Metro has been in the coming for so many years. I think the Metro and public transport are the only solutions to the city’s traffic woes.” Architect RK Misra adds.