A green bus and a red bus both charge “ordinary” fare. Some red buses charge ordinary fares, while others charge a premium for air conditioned travel. Feeder buses can be red, yellow, blue or green.
With a confusing rainbow of colours marking various bus services, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport corporation (BMTC) is dabbling with the idea of having all their buses under only three category of colours: Green (for ordinary buses), Blue (for air-conditioned buses, including Airport buses) and Orange (for feeder services). Launching the colour-code programme on Wednesday, officials hoped to complete the rebranding within 1.5 years.
BMTC has said that a few buses had already been painted with the new colour-code, and citizens could give their feedback at www.mybmtc.com. “Based on the feedback, we will continue with the scheme,” said an official.
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Hitherto, BMTC had used nearly 15 colours, without an overarching logic, to differentiate their buses – from Big circle to Big Trunk to the G-series of buses. A new colour had marked the launching of a new series of buses, and over the years, this created an “ambiguous visual architecture” for the buses.
The inspiration for the colours was explained by the Transport company as: Green after the canopies of the garden city; blue for tranquillity of the sky; and, orange for the radiant sun. The buses, will however, retain their identities through graphics of bees, dandelions, petals, grape branches, among others.