Buses World News: PASSENGERS' TRANSPORT * India - 1.64 crore people ferried in a year in Ahmedabad

23.10.10

PASSENGERS' TRANSPORT * India - 1.64 crore people ferried in a year in Ahmedabad

The Ahmedabad's Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS)

Ahmedabad,Gujarati,India -DNA -Oct 15, 2010: -- A city suffering on account of inadequate public transport has found itself a new lifeline - the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS)... A year back, when chief minister, Narendra Modi, flagged off the new bus service, there were several doubts in people's minds on whether the BRTS would succeed after all - especially considering the fate it met with in cities like Pune and Delhi... However, a year after it was launched, and after having ferried 1,63,877,46 passengers so far across a city-wide network of 34 km, there remain few doubts today about what the BRTS means to Amdavad... At the time of its launch, the BRTS provided services only on a 12.5-km stretch from RTO to Pirana, with an average passenger count of 15,759 a day. This was in October 2009. Exactly a year later, the average number of passengers has increased to 82,944 a day (in October 2010)... The BRTS started with a fleet of around 12 buses and now has 44, with five reserved for emergencies. This means that in last October, there were around 865 passengers per bus, which has now increased to 1,865 passengers per bus... (Imagen from wikimedia.org/wikipedia: Ahmedabad BRTS)

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