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Governance Science Bengaluru

Why the Night Bus Came Back

Two years after it was cut, and for none of the reasons anyone predicted.

The 401 runs again between midnight and five, for the first time since the service was withdrawn in 2024 on the grounds that nobody was using it.

Who was using it

Ridership data from before the cut showed an average of eleven passengers per service, which is why it was cut. What the data did not show, because nobody disaggregated it, was that those eleven were largely the same people, five nights a week, travelling to shifts that start before any other service runs.

An average of eleven is a weak case. Forty people who cannot get to work without it is a different one.

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Coverage Governance Science Bengaluru

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Vaishali Singh

Cities and Environment Correspondent

Reports on water, land, and municipal power from Bengaluru.

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Discussion 6 comments

Shobha Rangappa Pinned 3 hours ago

Nineteen public consultations and counting. The treatment-plant utilisation number is the one nobody publishes, and it is the only one that would tell you whether any of this works.

Vaishali Singh Author 2 hours ago

They published it at 4:15pm. I've added it to the piece as an update rather than a correction, since nothing in the original was wrong; it was simply unanswered.

Vasanthi Kumar 5 hours ago

The cascade point deserves more attention than it usually gets. Restoring a lake in isolation is a real improvement to that lake and almost nothing to the system.

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A. Menon 6 hours ago

Even so, the diversion drains are doing something; they buy time while the plants get built.

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