Inter-district buses from today, services to be skeletal for now
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 07.09.2020
With the state government relaxing norms, inter-district buses will start operating from Monday.
While the State Express Transport Corporation (SETC) is expected to run 400 buses, the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) will operate 1,500 services.
TNSTC has a fleet strength of 3,000 buses and SETC has1,100 buses. A senior SETC official said 300 buses will be operated from Chennai to other districts. The remaining 100 will be run on the Madurai-Salem, Coimbatore-Tirunelveli routes among others.
Each SETC bus has a seating capacity of 43 but only 26 seats will be available for passengers in order to maintain social distancing. A TNSTC official said the buses will ferry 30 passengers against the seating capacity of 55.
Buses have been cleaned and disinfected. Passengers with valid tickets will be allowed inside terminals after checking their body temperature and they will be asked to sanitise their hands before boarding a bus. Masks are compulsory throughout the trip.
An official said only skeletal services will resume as MTC services in Chennai have not received patronage. He said more buses will be run if the patronage goes up.
PREPPING UP: A man cleans an SETC bus at the K
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