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must be installed at terminals. Clear be leveraged to improve user experience
multimedia communication must be used to and informal transport like auto rickshaws
disseminate information on safety protocols, should be professionalized. Finally, we
bus schedules, and alternative modes of should ensure that cities expand walking and
travel passengers. And finally, to ensure cycling measures which will reduce the strain
the safety of passengers, wearing of masks on the public transport system.
should be enforced, crowding controlled,
and contactless payment solutions deployed. Actions taken by Bangalore
There should be separate buses for high Metropolitan Transport
risk passengers like healthcare and other Corporation
sanitation workers.
Sharing actions taken by BMTC, Managing
This will only be possible with adequate Director, C Shikha IAS stated that during the
financial support. A strong stimulus package lockdown period, BMTC operated only for
for public transport should be looked at as essential and health services, customizing
a social good to control private vehicles the routes accordingly. It also assisted
to deal with congestion, road safety, and in government evacuation programs by
health problems. Technology should also providing 250 buses for 21,000 stranded

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