Its going to be a bumpy ride!!!
Posted by Kavin on May 15, 2007
Four years back, this transport was my least preferred mode of transport. But now, everything is bus. Not to forget, I travel in bus to college (which is 40 km away from Chennai). Lets talk about this college buses later. First, the PTC buses!!! The most important issue in bus traveling is time. If you don’t have time, then bus should be your final option. The time for buses can be classified into two – the waiting time and travel time. Sometimes (atleast to me), waiting time has been greater than the travel time. This waiting time had made me to miss parts of a movie and also had made me to watch a movie.
If you come to my bus stop, where bus frequency is low, you wouldn’t consider going in a bus again. Not just because of the waiting time, but the huge crowd in the bus that could very well make you smashed potatoes. After reckless traveling and stamping at other people’s feet, you would finally reach your destination fully drenched.
Sometimes I have seen conductors shouting at the passengers. If you think that what he is doing is wrong, then think again! In that bus, you can observe perfect discipline although you might loathe the conductor. No one would stand in the foot-board, no one would peek out of the window.
Now Govt has released a large number of deluxe buses (Thanks to them). These b
uses are good and also provide more comfort than the normal buses at just an extra cost of money. But there is one problem with this bus. It wouldn’t stop at all the stops. Today morning, at the bus stop, I bid goodbye to a bus just because I saw a deluxe bus coming right after it and this deluxe bus bid goodbye to me and sped off.
If you too think that buses in Chennai are worse, then think again! Buses in Chennai are very good compared to other states.
College Buses:
Now coming to my college buses, there is nothing much better than my morning bus ride to college. A very smooth ride in a bus driven by a driver who forgot where the accelerator is and a pleasant place near the window is all you could dream. I wish these buses would change one day (atleast for the driver who thinks he is driving a bullock cart). Anyway, our buses are supposed to change to hi-tech buses. We were shown a sample piece of hi-tech buses (with semi-sleeper) and even with TV and whoosh! All was taken away within a week.
The evening ride from my college to home is just opposite to my morning journey. I travel in a different bus and this bus driver (who forgot where his brake is) makes sure we are undergoing a roller coaster ride. Atleast, the roller coaster wouldn’t throw you off your seats. But our bus driver makes it possible. Everytime I get into the bus, I dream like this: the bus cleaner coming to us and saying (just like the head creature of the Knight Bus in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie), “Its going to be a bumpy ride!”
