A recent survey finds that even the bus stations included under the Accessible India campaign are unfriendly towards people with disabilities. Lower fares, better infrastructure and participatory planning can ensure the BMTC is equally accessible to all.
COVID has posed many barriers to senior citizens’ use of buses. A recent study indicates five measures BMTC can take to remove these barriers and ease commute for seniors again.
While BMTC needs to adopt short-term measures like plexiglass partitions and simpler fare structures, it should also evolve long-term measures for safe travel.
BMTC, which already wasn’t quite popular with Bengalureans, is running skeletal services now. Can sanitation measures, support of private operators, help?
During COVID lockdown, we got a glimpse of a liveable Bengaluru where traffic and pollution levels were extremely low. This can be sustained post COVID too, if the city follows some core transport principles.
