Monday, May 10, 2010

MSRTC to roll out AC sleeper buses on long-distance routes


Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC)—whose fleet has evolved from the red-and-yellow ordinary ST buses to hi-tech ones including 88 AC Volvo services—now plans to introduce sleeper air-conditioned (AC) coaches for long-distance routes.
Sources in the state transport body said that plans were afoot to introduce the AC sleeper Volvos for Goa—a destination for which the MSRTC had received tremendous response recently.
“Last month, we launched the Volvo service with a seating capacity of 45 for the Mumbai-Panjim route. Our buses are nearly packed for all of May and only a handful of seats are available for the summer season,’’ said a senior MSRTC official, adding that there was a demand to introduce sleeper coaches on long-distance routes. “We would soon be including such buses in our fleet,’’ he said, while refusing to elaborate further.
Of the 88 services across the state, more than 50% of these hi-tech Volvo bus
es ply the Mumbai-Pune route. The MSRTC had recently launched new Volvo services on other routes such as Pune-Nanded, Pune-Jalgaon, Pune-Sangli and Pune-Kolhapur.
“We provide newspapers and drinking water in our Volvo buses. To ensure the safety of our passengers, we have been creating awareness about the dangers of accepting food or drinks from strangers during the journey or at scheduled halts,’’ the official said. “Our campaign has been successful. Of late, we haven’t come across cases of passengers
being administered stupefying drugs and robbed while travelling in our Volvos,” the official added.
Besides the Volvos, the corporation also wants to upgrade its “Parivartan” ordinary buses by providing more comfortable seats to passengers. At least five Parivartan buses are replacing the old ST buses daily. The new buses have single windshield, polyurethane seats with seating arrangement of 2X2 instead of the conventional 2X3, good leg space and polymer paint.
Published in Times of India

10 comments:

  1. One volvo bus or the newly introducing a.c sleeper coach should be run on PUNE-CHANDRAPUR via YAVATMAL route, it would surely get a tremendous response as there are no goo buses by M.S.R.T.C on this route and the passengers have no alternative rather than to travel by the private buses which are quite unsafe..

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    1. Really...Shivneri must be plan to run on this route...as our leaves are not certain we can travell by it we it get approved..

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  2. One volvo bus or the newly introducing a.c sleeper coach should be run on PUNE-CHANDRAPUR via YAVATMAL route, it would surely get a tremendous response as there are no goo buses by M.S.R.T.C on this route and the passengers have no alternative rather than to travel by the private buses which are quite unsafe..

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  3. One volvo bus or the newly introducing a.c sleeper coach should be run on PUNE-CHANDRAPUR via YAVATMAL route, it would surely get a tremendous response as there are no goo buses by M.S.R.T.C on this route and the passengers have no alternative rather than to travel by the private buses which are quite unsafe..

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  4. M.S.R.T.C should start a VOLVO or atleast a semi-luxury (ASIAD) Bus service on the KOLHAPUR-NAGPUR route, as there is not even a single ordinary M.S.R.T.C bus on this track, it would be a great source for the people of Nagpur and Vidarbha to be in touch wid Western Maharashtra and GOA

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  5. M.S.R.T.C should start thier volvo from solapur to mumbai as thier is good responce at 8.30 schedule time.

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  8. Why MSRTC not start NAGPUR-PUNE-NAGPUR Volvo Bus in Diwali vacations ?

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  9. MSRTC please start buses for Chandrapur - Pune-Chandrapur

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