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Urban mobility + Tech

Bengaluru, India
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
1 year
*vision-impaired
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
Also, UPI payments are once again working on all AC buses. Awesome!
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
On the other hand, the display was working well! Thanks for fixing this.
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Nihar Thakkar
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
Another day of Cubbon Park's ridiculous rules & security stopping us from playing frisbee. In a PARK.
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
I'm on the bus and this has not been a good ride 😐
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
If we were smart about it, there could've been more rail, less road #MTHL
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
Also, step free crossings 🔥
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
I'd be down for more of this @DULTBangalore @BBMPCOMM
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
It was so pissing off to see this at Museum Rd the other day. Schoolchildren trying to cross the Richmond Rd junction, but the pedestrian signal was green for literally 5 sec. All of them got stuck in the middle of the zebra with a sea of cars charging towards them.
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
These kinds of things are so infuriating. Are you seriously going to risk the safety of people crossing so you can claim the waiting time for vehicles at a junction has reduced by 1%? The very people who are reducing traffic by choosing to walk, get punished for doing so. Great.
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
I fail to understand how info shown on these displays is completely different to what is provided by the app.
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
Just happened to three different passengers waiting at the Koramangala Water Tank bus stop. One driver swerved across the road at the last minute almost causing a crash. @BMTC_BENGALURU This is ridiculous.
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
Maybe - just maybe - we're finally realising the importance of public spaces in our cities. Will this lead us to take more bold decisions and build traffic-free squares, plazas, and parks so that our cities can actually be liveable? @BBMPCOMM Please finish the K-100 Waterway...
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
This is such a cool episode! Thank you @tweetenator @rajdugar A must watch for everyone who wants to know what's up with the #BengaluruSuburbanRailProject and why things are moving so slowly. I feel like @SWRRLY @KridePrm @drmsbc @RailMinIndia need to watch this too 🫠
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Sathya Sankaran
2 years
Brand new season of India's premiere urban affairs podcast kicks off with: The big fight: Indian Railways vs Bengaluru Suburban Railway | S2E1 with @rajdugar https://t.co/iq9t7xdsn3 @KridePrm @drmsbc @GMSWR @SWRRLY @IasManjula @AshwiniVaishnaw
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
Can't wait for our very own S-Bahn!
@KridePrm
K-RIDE
2 years
*A Milestone Achieved* #KRIDE Signs Loan Agreement with KfW, Germany for €500 Million. #BSRP 🚉 @AshwiniVaishnaw @MBPatil @RailMinIndia @CMofKarnataka @SWRLY
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
Another issue: The data is just plain wrong. Display at the stop shows the next bus is 15 mins away, BMTC's own app shows me five buses within that time. And the arrivals are not sorted correctly by ETA. @BMTC_BENGALURU
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@nihart1024
Nihar Thakkar
2 years
It's great that we finally have these displays. And this is a much better implementation than other Indian cities. But, a suggestion - Passengers only care about the route, destination, time. Removing the bus registration number would make it far more readable.
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