Bengaluru Mobility

08/02/2026

Dear Chief Minister of Karnataka, Both State and Center are stakeholders in Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited. In fact, State has invested higher amount, so it has a majority say!

COMPARISON: Bengaluru Vs Chennai Metro
Same MOU, different behaviour:

* TN reduces fares by 40%,
* Karnataka increases fares by 71%!

* How come the Tamil Nadu Govt reduced the fares in Chennai, rather than increase it? You don't care about the citizens?
What does the Karnataka Govt think its job is - Welfare or exploitation?
* Stop spending on silly projects like Tunnel Roads and Elevated Corridors, and use that money instead to subsidise the Metro & Public Transport.

Roll back the unacceptable fare increase done last year!
* Fare Fixation Committee is not mandatory. It is only set up on the insistence of the state. Fire the Fare fixation committee, because it has proven to be unfit!
* Let BMLTA (which is the mobility regulator for the city) have the power to oversee and fix fares, and subsidise various modes of transport!

Siddaramaiah DK Shivakumar M. B. Patil Ramalinga Reddy Dinesh Gundu Rao Directorate of Urban Land Transport

08/02/2026

Bengaluru pays the highest metro fares across India. This shows that the Govt here has no understanding of what should constitute a city's mobility.
* Firstly, because the city doesn't have it own Govt, as prescribed by the 74th Amendment of the constitution.
* Secondly, the state govt policy is directed by the vested interests of ministers in the cabinet, who ignorantly chase after car-oriented projects like tunnel roads and elevated corridors.
* Instead of investing in and subsidising public transport, the state govt wishes to invest on and subsidise car use; displaying its lack of planning wisdom.
* The ideal mobility regulator under the National Urban Transport Policy, the UMTA is non existent or non operational here. The BMLTA that has been constituted is merely a showpiece with no actual powers.
This Karnataka Govt is directionless and misguided - it is causing untold and irreversible harm to Bengaluru!

Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah DK Shivakumar M. B. Patil Ramalinga Reddy Dinesh Gundu Rao Directorate of Urban Land Transport

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