In bid to attract techies & students, govt AC buses shift boarding point to Egmore
SETC TAKES A LEAF OUT OF BOOKS OF PRIVATE OPERATORS, ATTEMPTS TO MAKE PASSENGERS’ JOURNEYS EASIER
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com
Chennai:19.07.2018
In a bid to attract more IT professionals and college students, who frequently visit their native places over the weekend, the government-owned State Express Transport Corporation (SETC) has shifted the boarding point from Koyambedu.
Starting this week, select airconditioned sleeper buses plying to Madurai-Tirunelveli, Trichy-Karur and Theni-Bodi have been departing from Egmore after 8pm.
These buses ply along Adyar, SRP Tools on Old Mahabalipuram Road, Velachery and Tambaram before joining other buses at Perungulathur.
The buses have been scheduled 45-60 minutes after the last soughtafter Express trains to these cities depart from Egmore and Central railway stations in Chennai.
Previously, all SETC buses departed only from Koyambedu bus terminus, located at least 30km to 40km away from the IT corridor.
“On an average, it takes an hour and 30 minutes to reach Koyambedu and it turns worse during peak hours, weekends or holidays,” said K Dinesh, a software professional from Sholinganallur.
On the other hand, private buses halt at multiple points near our locality, he added.
A preliminary analysis by SETC suggested that aping this operation might help them attract more passengers.
“So, we have tweaked operations and our buses too will ply along areas where most of our target population reside. We hope this will help us to improve the daily footfall,” an SETC official said.
In the first phase, two new A/C sleeper buses and one A/C sleeper-cum-seater bus will be operated to Tirunelveli, Bodi and Karur respectively.
The fare collected for travel on these buses will be the same as the one collected from those boarding other SETC buses at Koyambedu.
Buses, with a seating capacity of 30, bound towards Bodi and Karur will ply via the IT corridor.
In addition to this, the Tirunelveli bus will take a detour via the Ashok Nagar-Kathipara Junction route so that more passengers can be accommodated, the official added.
SETC TAKES A LEAF OUT OF BOOKS OF PRIVATE OPERATORS, ATTEMPTS TO MAKE PASSENGERS’ JOURNEYS EASIER
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com
Chennai:19.07.2018
In a bid to attract more IT professionals and college students, who frequently visit their native places over the weekend, the government-owned State Express Transport Corporation (SETC) has shifted the boarding point from Koyambedu.
Starting this week, select airconditioned sleeper buses plying to Madurai-Tirunelveli, Trichy-Karur and Theni-Bodi have been departing from Egmore after 8pm.
These buses ply along Adyar, SRP Tools on Old Mahabalipuram Road, Velachery and Tambaram before joining other buses at Perungulathur.
The buses have been scheduled 45-60 minutes after the last soughtafter Express trains to these cities depart from Egmore and Central railway stations in Chennai.
Previously, all SETC buses departed only from Koyambedu bus terminus, located at least 30km to 40km away from the IT corridor.
“On an average, it takes an hour and 30 minutes to reach Koyambedu and it turns worse during peak hours, weekends or holidays,” said K Dinesh, a software professional from Sholinganallur.
On the other hand, private buses halt at multiple points near our locality, he added.
A preliminary analysis by SETC suggested that aping this operation might help them attract more passengers.
“So, we have tweaked operations and our buses too will ply along areas where most of our target population reside. We hope this will help us to improve the daily footfall,” an SETC official said.
In the first phase, two new A/C sleeper buses and one A/C sleeper-cum-seater bus will be operated to Tirunelveli, Bodi and Karur respectively.
The fare collected for travel on these buses will be the same as the one collected from those boarding other SETC buses at Koyambedu.
Buses, with a seating capacity of 30, bound towards Bodi and Karur will ply via the IT corridor.
In addition to this, the Tirunelveli bus will take a detour via the Ashok Nagar-Kathipara Junction route so that more passengers can be accommodated, the official added.
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