Mumbai: Owing to the rising demand of the nearby residents, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (Greatest) undertaking has announced a new AC bus route at Mulund East in the eastern suburbs of the city.
Buses in the new route ‘A 370’ will ply in between MHADA Colony and Kelkar College and the service will be operational from January 4 (Monday). Greatest officials informed that the buses would be offered inside a frequency of 15 minutes and the initially bus service would leave at 6:30 am and the final bus would leave at 9:45 am.
“BEST will put the conductor-less AC mini buses into service which will provide point to point service to the commuters,” Greatest spokesperson Manoj Varade told FPJ.
Prakash Gangadhare, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporator from Mulund and Greatest committee member, had been instrumental in urging the management for beginning a new bus route in this region. Gangadhare informed that a lot of men and women living in the residential regions never have any suggests of public transportation and the new bus route will ease their commuting woes.
“This new route will ease commuting woes of Mumbaikars and reduce the crowd in the conventional routes already running in this area,” Gangadhare told FPJ.
Also from January 4, Greatest will extend the A-372 bus route. Presently, buses in this route ply in between Shivajinagar Junction and Raj Kapoor Chowk which will be additional extended till Trombay bus quit.
Greatest officials informed that all the buses operating in this route will be air-conditioned and the initially bus will leave Trombay at 6 am when the final bus will leave at 9.35 pm day-to-day.