Aayush 🇮🇳

(he/him) music viju shah

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

very nice investigation, i wonder who did it

[Anubhav Gupta @anubhavgupta_ji]

Acche din aa gaye!!!🤩🤩

In Madhya Pradesh, Students protested against the NEET paper leak and exam scams ruining the future of millions.

BJP's response? WATER CANNONS.
Force.
Detentions.

Students asking for fair exams are being treated like criminals.

This government fears questioning youth more than exam leak chain till Dharmendra Pradhan.

[nisarga @ni5arga]

@cbseindia29 when will you thank me 💔💔

[Indian Urbanism @IndianUrbanist]

It’s genuinely nightmarish that India produces such heartbreaking images and symbols of cruelty every day.

[Devendra Fadnavis @Dev_Fadnavis]

The austerity measures announced by the govt of India is an indicator that the economy is in total mess.

[IRI Embassy in Armenia @iraninyerevan]

Congratulations to you. Children are innocent and lovable. Those 168 children that your boss killed in the school in Minab, and you justified, were also children. When you kiss your baby, think of the mothers of those children.

[Clifton D' Rozario @clifroz]

Shudder to imagine the situation of street vendors across Bengaluru. This is the reality of the street vendor profession. Instead of mindless targeting them, learn to appreciate their service to society and this honest, tough way to earn a livelihood.

[Salman Khan @BeingSalmanKhan]

Don't waste your time on these bakwass things . not important, important is that u r so busy that u don't have any time for this rubbish

[DEI speedwagon (all eyes on Cuba) 🌹🇵🇸 〽️ @uhshanti]

"sorry I let Pete Hegseth blow up an unarmed ship that was visiting us on a diplomatic exercise and ritualistically licked Bibi Netanyahu's jackboot in public. thing is, I'm running out of oil and gas"

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

what you're looking at is a fuel depot burning in the middle of a megacity of 9 m people & nobody is talking about what this smoke actually contains

when refined petroleum burns at this scale it releases a cocktail of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds, these particles are small enough to bypass bypass your lungs entirely and enter your bloodstream directly…

we're talking PM2.5 concentrations that can spike to 50 to 100 times safe levels within a 20km radiu

right now in tehran people are breathing this in, eyes burning, throats closing, children coughing, asthmatics flooding emergency rooms & outside acid rain is falling on the water supply, the soil, the crops…everything that sustains daily life in a city of 9m

but the real damage comes later, years later, elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issue

this is what happened after the Kuwait oil fires in 1991, after the mosul refinery burns in 2016, after every single conflict where fuel infrastructure was deliberately targeted, the medical literature on this is extensive & devastating

deliberately bombing fuel infrastructure insidde a civilian megacity knowing full well what the toxic fallout does to the population over decades is chemical warfare without the label, you achieve the same mass casualty outcome over a longer timeline and somehow it stays legal because the weapon is fire instead of sarin

these people are being sentenced to cancers they will develop in 2035 by bombs dropped in 2026 & they call it liberation

[Soumyarendra Barik @imsoumyarendra]

🚨Ground report: I spent 3 days as a gig worker for Zomato, Blinkit & Swiggy in Delhi.
23 deliveries. 15.5 hours. 105 km.
Total earnings: Rs 782 (Rs 34/hour)
After fuel: ₹532
This is India's convenience economy. A thread on what I learned @IndianExpress

[Aayush 🇮🇳 @G2500D]

@enarchxve bengaluru is at a higher altitude than 99% of india, a fact i learned courtesy of @rajbhagatt

[ChristinMathewPhilip @ChristinMP_]

Meet Ravi (60), a security personnel
commuting from Champion station in KGF to Byappanahalli. He boards 3:10pm MEMU, reaches KR Pura by 5pm & walks to work.The next morning, he returns on 7:20am train from Byappanahalli, arriving at Champion by 8:42am.

His monthly pass costs Rs 355. Like him, many travel daily between Bengaluru & nearby districts on skeletal suburban rail services.

#ModaluSuburbanRailuBeku @SWRRLY @KridePrm

[Aman Bhargava 📊 @thedivtagguy]

We filed an RTI request with Bangalore's metro authority asking how many people traveled on the metro and got a file with 1.2M rows of data on ridership. In this project, we show our findings on how Bangalore uses the metro.

You can find your commute here! Link below.

[Srinivas Alavilli @srinualavilli]

NICE Road Bus Success shows the way for ORR

One of the biggest stories of Bengaluru public transport in recent times is the stupendous success of NICE Bus Routes by @BMTC_BENGALURU as illustrated by @THBengaluru's @DarshanDevaiahB

These bus stops are literally at NICE toll booths; not safe or comfortable (exposed to heat & rain) but still thousands of commuters - (that too high income IT folks working in Electronic City) are using these buses.

Why?
1. Speed - much faster than regular bus. fewer stops.
2. Frequency - you will get a bus within 10 minutes.
3. Reliability - no cancellations/changes due to traffic
4. Safer than driving. No driving stress. Costs less.

What's the moral of the story?

The BMTC network is quite strong and reaches all corners of the city, even beyond the city. But the buses bear the brunt of traffic congestion, leading to trip cancellations, incomplete trips; making them slow & less reliable. Bus is solving the congestion by delivering 46 lakh trips a day, but bogged down by personal vehicles (2000 new coming in every day)

It's not just NICE Bus, the BMTC Express Bus Services "Vegadoota" are also a big hit - limited stops, long routes is attracting lot of commuters to bus.

If we want more people to CHOOSE bus instead of their personal vehicles, we need to give SPEED and FREQUENCY to make bus more reliable & desirable.

This is why we need to bring back the *Bus Priority Lane on ORR*. ORR already has really high frequency of buses. Every day BMTC runs a whopping 3360 trips on the ORR with 1533 of them being AC buses! So many buses but they have zero advantage over personal vehicles and often further slowed down by restrictions.

Lot of IT folks use bus even though they have cars and bikes to avoid driving and to reduce congestion as a social responsibility, these numbers need to double. Unless the number of people going to tech parks in personal vehiles reduces, there is no hope.

While we await Blue line metro on ORR (12-18 months away), we must leverage the excellent opportunity that emerged now with Metro lines at both ends of ORR (Purple Line at KR Pura and Yellow Line at Silk Board).

A large number of commuters that currently use personal vehicles will find it convenient to switch to Metro + Bus Priority Lane as their commute will become shorter and they can contribute to city's decongestion efforts.

@shalinirajnish @GBAChiefComm @Jointcptraffic @BMTC_BENGALURU @OfficialBMRCL @CPBlr @GBA_office @PriyankKharge @ITBTGoK @kiranshaw @rk_misra @dp_satish @TVMohandasPai @ChristinMP_ @Suchithkidiyoor @0RRCA @prashanthp @ravichandar @NammaBengaluroo @WFRising @kdevforum @SaveSarjapur @FriendsofBMTC @DULTBangalore

[Aayush 🇮🇳 @G2500D]

@IndieKnopfler in the same universe where lara dutta saw 9/11 from very close (on tv)

[Aayush 🇮🇳 @G2500D]

👑👑👑👑
just a thousand more buses bro

[Suchith Kidiyoor @Suchithkidiyoor]

With more electric buses hitting the road, @BMTC_BENGALURU has expanded its fleet to over 7,000 vehicles. E-buses now account for more than 20% of the fleet, meaning one in five buses on the city’s roads is electric.

[Aayush 🇮🇳 @G2500D]

@enarchxve this is really annoying. what works for me sometimes is to slightly change the time of your arrival or departure so that private bus option becomes invalid

[Kodaishutir Kochuri Karyakarta @BarkusMaximus]

In any exam in India, parents often HAVE to travel because the centre is often located in a geography farther than other continents. There is no public transport to take you there. Your mobile phone isn’t safe so you can’t really carry it with you. There is no restaurant in ++

[Godspeed @Godspeed994]

@bengawalk The cat's name is Indiranagar Metro Station. They have built this huge ass building with trains around it and named the structure after its name.