More AC buses
for Navi Mumbai?
By Dinesh Kamath
NAVI MUMBAI: In an official letter to BEST, Thane Municipal
Transport (TMT) and Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport (NMMT), transport
commissioner VN More suggested they introduce spacious buses with better
ambience and seats to attract people who use cars to commute to offices every
day.
Introduction
of AC buses will be advantageous in the sense that travelling cost of AC-buses
is 70-80 per cent less when compared with cars and people will also get to utilise the time spent
on the bus. Also the issues of traffic congestion will be overcome since the
number of cars on the city roads will reduce.
The
chief minister’s office is keen on this project, and has held several meetings
in this regard over the last two years Apart from capital investments for
buying new buses with modern facilities, other issues such as last-mile
connectivity, service timings, frequency and feeder service, needed to be
tackled before implementation.
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