Foot board travel

Footboard travel... one of the major issues faced by the transport corporation. The city dwellers might very well have noticed this daily. Atleast 20-25 people cling on to the bus precariously either in the foot board or the window bars. Most of them JUST manage to place their toe and palm in the bus and still pay the same fare that a person comfortably sitting inside the bus would pay. Quite unfair.. isnt it? something has to be done regarding this. The college students take this as an opportunity to showcase their hanging skills. They come a long way running behind the bus and somehow manage to get a hand and a foot inside the bus and just stick on to it. By the time, they are into the bus, the next stop has already approached and they have to get down to give way for others to board/alight the bus. Inshort, they mostly run behind the bus, thus keeping them in good shape. Now i understand why they are always energetic. But, it needs lot of stamina to run across the city in this traffic. Here too, they waste the money in the form of ticket/season ticket just for running behind the bus.

The govt tries to put its best foot forward in this regard by introducing lots of services, launching the new automatic door closure buses, increasing the passenger capacity of the buses.. but all their effors fail(fall) and they are left bewildered like a poor commuter who just fell out of the bus. But still the government cannot meet the growing needs and this menace still continues and lots of passengers still hang out of the
buses putting their lives and the fellow passengers lives in danger.


As a last and brave attempt, the government has introduced a new type of bus where the passengers just CANNOT travel in foot-board. Currently, as a trial measure they have introduced only one service in some other part of tamilnadu. If this measure proves successful, this will be followed in the city as well. Anyway, kudos to our transport corporation for such an innovative thinking and the way they MAINTAINing it as a secret till now.

See the below picture to get a sneak preview of this.


(Image courtesy: As usual, mail forward :) )