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City buses wow people on trial run
A BEVY of beauties finally got ready to paint the town red from today. The beauties were not the two-legged variety but a fleet of luxury buses launched by Indore City Transport Services Limited (ICTSL). And needless to say, the beauties received rave reviews while on their inaugural free joy ride.
A BEVY of beauties finally got ready to paint the town red from today. The beauties were not the two-legged variety but a fleet of luxury buses launched by Indore City Transport Services Limited (ICTSL). And needless to say, the beauties received rave reviews while on their inaugural free joy ride.
On their dry run, the buses attracted people and revived hopes for a comfortable journey through the City in future when they will no longer be subjected to rude behaviour of tempo and Nagar Seva staff.
The people who enjoyed the free bus ride today were overwhelmed. “The buses are wonderful. People should contribute in maintaining their beauty and treat them as their own property,” fabrication unit owner Mohammed Salim who boarded the bus from Bombay Bazaar for Musakhedi remarked.
College students were particularly happy. Government Arts and Commerce College students Namrata Jaiswal and Tina Verma who used to shell out Rs 10 a day to reach college appeared
eager to take bus passes and enjoy a ride anywhere in the City. “The City bus staff are well behaved and buses will prove to be safer for women,” a student Rani Yadav remarked.
Vaishnav Academy assistant teacher Rashmi Borasi is ready to leave her scooty at home and take the bus to reach school. “I bought the two-wheeler because the Nagar Seva never dropped me at school on time. The only hitch is that the administration should convince people that buses would ply on time, come what may,” she told Hindustan Times.
Housewife Swapnil Khanwilkar who visited Khajrana temple supported Borasi’s view and added that people have high hopes from ICTSL services.
Keeping their word, ICTSL plied buses on busy routes to test time schedules, which they eventually managed well. For instance, the bus on the Noorani Nagar to Musakhedi route navigated its way through some of the most congested City areas with ease missing the schedule by few minutes.
The passersby waved at the purple bus as it steered through the surging crowd at Labariyabheru, Rajmohalla, Malganj, PY Road, Nandlalpura, Patel bridge, Gwaltoli, M Y Road and Azad Nagar before wheeling onto Musakhedi.
Late in the evening, the bus operators and ICTSL in-charge Chandramauli Shukla sat down to amend the glitches that occurred
during the trial run. “We will continue the trial run till tomorrow after which people will have to pay,” Shukla told newspersons.
