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TSRTC readies to cater at Metro Stations
As the works pertaining to the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project (HMRP) are making brisk progress keeping in view the November end deadline for inauguration of the first phase of Nagole-Miyapur stretch, the RTC authorities began initiating steps for providing feeder bus services for the convenience of the passengers at the Metro Rail Stations.
Hyderabad: As the works pertaining to the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project (HMRP) are making brisk progress keeping in view the November end deadline for inauguration of the first phase of Nagole-Miyapur stretch, the RTC authorities began initiating steps for providing feeder bus services for the convenience of the passengers at the Metro Rail Stations.
RTC Executive Director of Greater Hyderabad Zone A Purushotham, along with Regional Managers, Divisional and Depot Managers, on Thursday, inspected the areas in the 26 Metro Rail Stations in the 28-km Nagole-Miyapur stretch for taking up necessary steps to provide the bus facilities for the metro rail passengers.
RTC authorities are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that required number of mini feeder bus services is made available for the metro rail passengers at all the stations so that they could proceed to their destinations without any hassles. As a matter of fact, the Urban Mass Transport Corporation (UMTC) had also sent a proposal after identifying as many as 37 routes where the mini feeder bus services could be made available keeping in view the colonies which were having narrow lanes and roads.
Already six teams have been constituted by the RTC to take up the survey of these routes in the colonies having narrow roads. For instance, as many as 500 to 600 passengers are expected to alight at a time at the Metro Rail Station near the Gopalpuram Police Station where the roads are very narrow. Thus, the number of mini buses that could be operated in such places are being worked out by the officials.
It is pertinent to note here that as many as 33 lakh passengers travel in city buses numbering over 3,500 and making 42,000 total trips daily. The number of bus passengers is expected to come down with the operation of the Metro Rail services. Thus keeping this in view the RTC authorities are likely to withdraw about 10 to 20 percent of the Metro Express bus services plying in the Metro Rail routes.
However, these services would be utilised in the other routes where the density of bus traffic is more.
