Bangalore Bus Rapid Transit System

Mahendra Jain, additional chief secretary (urban development department), stated that the government did not consider the project feasible "as we have already planned for the Namma Metro."

"[1] A transport survey carried out in 2007, referred to as CTTP,[2] recommended Bangalore BRTS, with 14 routes totaling 282 km.

[3] To impose this, BTP has[4] decided to have traffic fines for private vehicle drivers on violating Bus Priority Lanes.

[5] A servery conducted by Citizen for Bangalore (a civic activist group) shows that also revealed that the number of people spending over two hours daily on bus commute has substantially reduced by 62 per cent since the introduction of the city's first BPL on the Silk Board-K R Puram route.

However, many feel that despite public statements of support for the concept, BRTS implementations have not made big progress due to lack of clear ownership between BMTC, BBMP, BDA and City Traffic Police.

[8] More recently, in early 2010, BDA had started on a detailed project report to implement BRTS on the eastern loop Outer Ring Road.