KOLKATA: The Garia 6 govt bus depot, which allowed personal buses to be parked at the premises, led to drastic decongestion of Garia and its adjacent areas. And now, the state wants to replicate the style around the city.
Buses are the largest passenger-carrier within the city. At the same time, personal buses, almost 80% of which park at the busy carriageways, devour away a big a part of the distance. “The receive advantages the town gets from buses as mass transport gets substantially nullified by means of the occupied highway space,” defined a senior transport division officer.
The govt is thus making plans to modify some its archaic rules, in keeping with which getting access to those depots quantities to trespassing, which is punishable. “The depots and terminus belonging to state transport undertakings (STUs)are sprawling yet extremely under-utilized. With personal buses being the primary keep of the town’s masstransit, it is not sensible to deny them the parking zone at the premises,” said a WBTC officer.
“Nowadays, the categorization of government and private buses is best related for operators. From the users’ perspective, a bus is only a service that takes them to their destinations efficiently. This is why we at the moment are bringing personal buses directly to the real-time monitoring platform ‘Pathadisha’. The route rationalisation we're carrying out contains both STU buses and private ones. This rationalization objectives at a fair distribution of buses in line with real-time demand,” defined a senior transport division officer.
“If both personal and STU buses of an identical alignment get started from the same depot, the products and services shall be frivolously gapped and extra dependable for passengers. Such systematic distribution of buses will beef up viability of the trade by means of getting rid of needless competition, which leads to racing and accidents,” he added.
“We were soliciting for the government to allow us to make use of STU depots to park our vehicles. We are also in a position to remit an affordable parking price to WBTC for providing us this facility. Kolkata has the least highway space (6%) compared to that of different cities. The highway space we'd vacate will ease the movement of site visitors and there shall be coordination among buses plying along an identical routes,” said Tapan Bandyopadhyay of Joint Council of Bus Syndicates.
Buses are the largest passenger-carrier within the city. At the same time, personal buses, almost 80% of which park at the busy carriageways, devour away a big a part of the distance. “The receive advantages the town gets from buses as mass transport gets substantially nullified by means of the occupied highway space,” defined a senior transport division officer.
The govt is thus making plans to modify some its archaic rules, in keeping with which getting access to those depots quantities to trespassing, which is punishable. “The depots and terminus belonging to state transport undertakings (STUs)are sprawling yet extremely under-utilized. With personal buses being the primary keep of the town’s masstransit, it is not sensible to deny them the parking zone at the premises,” said a WBTC officer.
“Nowadays, the categorization of government and private buses is best related for operators. From the users’ perspective, a bus is only a service that takes them to their destinations efficiently. This is why we at the moment are bringing personal buses directly to the real-time monitoring platform ‘Pathadisha’. The route rationalisation we're carrying out contains both STU buses and private ones. This rationalization objectives at a fair distribution of buses in line with real-time demand,” defined a senior transport division officer.
“If both personal and STU buses of an identical alignment get started from the same depot, the products and services shall be frivolously gapped and extra dependable for passengers. Such systematic distribution of buses will beef up viability of the trade by means of getting rid of needless competition, which leads to racing and accidents,” he added.
“We were soliciting for the government to allow us to make use of STU depots to park our vehicles. We are also in a position to remit an affordable parking price to WBTC for providing us this facility. Kolkata has the least highway space (6%) compared to that of different cities. The highway space we'd vacate will ease the movement of site visitors and there shall be coordination among buses plying along an identical routes,” said Tapan Bandyopadhyay of Joint Council of Bus Syndicates.
Pvt buses in WB depots to decongest Kolkata roads
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