State owned Volvos are only good, rest buses are nothing to write about.įor private buses, from where do you catch bus? I haven't travelled a lot by public transport, however following are my observations Remember how Autoriders private aircon buses in Mumbai had to be point-to-point and not allowed to define stops to pick up passengers? A contract-carriage must be strictly point-to-point, with no intermediate commercial stops (restaurant/toilet stops don’t count for this). Having intermediate stops violates the government-given contract carriage license. That privilege is only with the BEST, PMT and municipal buses.
So technically it is illegal to have intermediate stops where a traveler may embark and buy a ticket on the bus from a conductor. When you buy a ticket for a single seat on a public transport bus for long-distance travel, legally you enter into a Contract Carriage agreement with the licensed private-operator.Īnother thing: While private operators may apply for and obtain a contract carriage license, they cannot run a service like the municipal bus transport, which has multiple scheduled stops where a passenger may embark and buy a ticket for another scheduled stop to disembark.
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If any of these tenets are violated, the contractor can and should lose the license to operate. That contraband (and octroi-not-paid) goods will not be permitted to be carried. That there will be no risk to life or limb for the contracted passenger.ĥ. That the timings of start and end of journey will be met, within reasonable norms expected for such a travel.Ĥ.
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That only a licensed driver will drive.ģ. The government gives permission to the supplier to do business in its territory on the conditionsĢ. The sovereign government of the state of Maharashtra (and every state in the Constitution of the Republic of India), is also legally responsible for ensuring some compliances: Still, any johnny with a bus cannot start operating and selling tickets. I agree that market forces will ensure that only the best service providers will survive. I wasn’t referring to competition with state buses.
There is no reason why the state should regulate private buses, yes if you say that they need to make sure that safety is given importance by private buses then its just justified. Why would the state regulate private bus operators and improve them to compete with the state buses itself! The state is doing its job by giving good service, if the private operators dont come up with better service than the ppl will shift to the state owned buses. I even wondered if the air-suspension has malfunctioned and been shoddily repaired.ĭo you suppose, it's high time that the state regulates private bus-operators and checks fitness for expressway and fitness for merchantability. 200 to 260, depending on rush and weekend traffic.Ĩ) Noise, Vibration and Harshness have seriously gone-up. Passengers get in at Wakad and even occupy the jump-seat meant for the conductor at the door.ħ) Ticketless cash transactions are on the rise, with fares arbitrarily varying between Rs. at Aundh and the Pune bound bus wastes time at Vashi waiting for empty seats to get filled.
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200 and tickets are always issued.ġ) Neeta's fleet of Volvo B7Rs seems seriously aging.Ģ) Most of the buses have battle-scars, cracked fiberglass bumpers, wire-tied/bandaged or missing rearview mirrors and non-functioning videos, the Pune-Dadar buses being several shades worse than the Pune-Borivli buses.ģ) The drivers and definitely the conductors are increasingly shabby in attire and manners.ĥ) Safety and security is a joke with no emergency exits marked.Ħ) The Mumbai bound bus wastes 10-20 min. Ģ) They have taken care to clearly mark emergency exits and provided hammers.ģ) The driver wears a uniform and is polite and refined in communications with passengers.Ĥ) The bus leaves on time, even if it has unfilled seats.ĥ) The fare is exactly Rs. Looks like:Ī) They are driven more carefully by drivers with long service-tenure and clean record.ī) Prompt repairs to any scratches, surface damage, replacement of broken taillight lenses. Here is my frank comparison of the Maharashtra State "Shivneri" Volvo B7Rs, versus Neeta Volvo B7Rs.ġ) The "Shivneri" has very little battle-scars. I travel regularly on the Mumbai-Pune and Pune-Mumbai expressway routes by Volvo B7R buses.