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BMTC to introduce more night services

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore April 21. Late night moviegoers and those who have to travel after 10 p.m. will have a bonus from the BMTC.

The BMTC is introducing night bus services, covering a major part of the city, running between 10 p.m. and 1.30 a.m. There will be additional bus services between 4.30 a.m. and 7 a.m.

These buses are planned to run at one-hour intervals.

With the introduction of these late night and early morning services, BMTC buses will run for almost 21 hours a day, as in other bigger metros. Several busy routes already have buses running up to 11.30 p.m.

This move is to provide safe transportation for the people and to save them from having to depend on autorickshaws, which usuallly demand high fares late night or early mornings.

The new bus services will be helpful to visitors from other cities who are at the mercy of autorickshaws during late night and early morning hours.

Auto drivers habitually demand more than the authorised "half return" fare during these hours and out-of- town visitors are literally taken for a ride. Others flatly refuse to go to certain destinations.

BMTC will initially operate 31 buses for these late and early hour services and increase it to 50 buses.

The corporation has also started a regular bus service covering areas around the Outer Ring Road where autorickshaw drivers usually refuse to take a passenger to.

At present this service covers Bommanahalli, Yelahanka, Marathahalli, and Doddabasti. Another bus service between Banashankari and Yeshwantpur through the Mysore Road- Ring Road will be introduced soon.

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