BEST bus no. 262

The BEST should add more services during the morning & evening peak hours on the no. 262 Goregaon Station - Ayyappa Mandir route. I say this because many passengers take the share auto from the end of M.G. Road during this period and even the share autos are not available most of the times, so a big queue is formed there also. So this is a good opportunity for BEST to capture that market of short distance passengers to Goregaon station. I would suggest to keep one bus every 15 minutes starting from 7.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. in the morning and from 4.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. In the evening also there is a huge shortage of auto rickshaws from the Goregoan station to Link Road, so this service could be very beneficial for the people plus it will also get some good business for BEST. They will get passengers from Bangur Nagar, Motilal Nagar, and all along M.G. Road. BEST needs to be innovative to get more business in view of the fact that their power division is not subsidising their transport division anymore and their huge losses. Rickshaws will lose business but who the hell cares for them considering their blatant refusals to ply passengers except to their favoured destinations. 

violation at traffic signal

Today when i was coming to office by BEST bus, the bus stopped at a  traffic signal well before the parallel lines before the zebra crossing. There was one motorbike also similarly standing before the bus but well within the zebra crossing line. Whereupon comes one other motor biker from behind and he was constantly honking to the other motor biker to go ahead. But the guy in front totally refused to go ahead. Again the biker came and shouted at the front biker to move ahead. Whereupon the first biker told him of the zebra crossing rule and pointed to the CCTV installed up there on the opposite side. Some altercation took place between the two, the second biker moved ahead regardless. We were watching all these from the BEST bus. There's compliance for you, technology in the form of CCTV forces compliance on some, but some do not bother. I am sure the second biker comes into the category of people who will not pay the traffic challan at all when it is automatically issued on the basis of his violation of the specific rule. 

BEST A.C bus service to andheri east

Letter which I sent to Times of India regarding the transport situation in Andheri East.

Reference to your news item in today's Times of India, Mumbai edition, page 5. I am surprised to note that BEST has completely bypassed Andheri east in introducing new A.C. Buses. Andheri East is probably the fastest growing suburb in Mumbai today especially from the office goers point of view. There are numerous CBDs already existing here such as SEEPZ, MIDC, besides which numerous office complexes and buildings are coming up here. The number of people working in Andheri east far surpasses that working in the original CBDs such as Nariman Point, Cuffe Parade etc. The bus services to this area is completely pathetic. Auto-rickshaws totally refuse to ply to Andheri East mumbling some idiotic reasons. One should come down in the evening rush hour to witness a spectacle - that of thousands of people walking down from everywhere to the Andheri station. It is therefore imperative that more A.C. buses start plying from andheri east to the western suburbs of Goregaon to Borivli, central suburbs of Ghatkopar to Chembur to Mulund and to south Mumbai.