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Indore City Bus
Indore City Bus is a road transport system run by Indore City Transport Services Limited or ICTSL. This transport system runs through 277 kilometers of road network in the Indore city and surrounding areas. The city bus service has 6 private partners along with the city administration and the total investment has gone more than 40 Crores.
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History of local transportation in Indore
Indore is the largest metropolitan city of the state of Madhya Pradesh and a center of trade and commerce. The city is growing rapidly with need for increasing mobility, high travel demand, increasing intensity of traffic, congestion, delays, accidents and other transportation problems.
The intra-city public transport system is essentially road based with 500 private minibuses, 550 tempos(to reduce pollution now replaced by Maruti van as contract carrier), more than 100 Metro Taxi (Flat fare Rs.11.95 per KM) and 10,000 auto rickshaws. The city felt a lack of public mass transport system for long time.
Company
Indore City Transport Services Limited was incorporated on December 1, 2005 with an objective to operate and manage the public transport system of Indore. Seven key people were identified as the Board of Directors. Indore Municipal Corporation and Indore Development Authority invested an authorized capital of Rs 2,500,000 jointly. The collector of Indore, Vivek Aggarwal was responsible for the execution of the project to run the bus service. The company is run as a public-private partnership.
Rates & Passes
The city bus offers daily passes to regular travelers. The city bus fare has been increased by Rs. 1 and the monthly pass rate has been increased from Rs. 300/- to Rs.350 [1] This increase was attributed towards the recent crude oil price hike which made diesel and petrol costlier in India.
Accolades
Noted writer Gurcharan Das wrote in his blog on how Indore's bus service could prove to be helpful in solving New Delhi's bus transport problems.[2] Blueline buses killed as many as 488 people in New Delhi during the 3 year span of 2005-2008.[3] Gurcharan writes "Indore is now quoted (with Bogota) as having the best bus service in the world".
References
- ^ "Indore News - City bus fare increased from Aug 1". 2008. http://www.indore360.com/portal/index.php/Information/Increment-in-Indore-City-Bus-Fare.html.
- ^ "Gurcharan Das' Official Blog". Blogger. 2008. http://gurcharandas.blogspot.com/2007/12/blueline-solution-in-indore-dec-16-2007.html. Retrieved August 22, 2008.
- ^ "Supreme Court expresses concern over deaths by Blueline buses". Chennai, India: The Hindu. February 2, 2008. http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/02/stories/2008020257810100.htm. Retrieved July 16, 2008.
External links
Categories:- Bus companies of India
- Public transport in India
- Transport in Indore
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