Last weekends my journey was more pleasant and happier. When I reached to home I had a different experience, a happy and cool experience of Best and Rapid Transit System called BRTS.
I reached to Maninagar at around 9:15 in the night and caught the BRTS for my home around 9:25. It dropped me at around 9:55. The journey that takes minimum 50 minutes by any other mode of transport has ended up by saving 40% time with better conform.
Bus rapid transit takes part of its name from rapid transit which describes a high-capacity transport system with its own right-of-way, its alignment often being elevated or running in tunnels, and typically running long trains at short headways of a few minutes.
This is something very good features I noticed.
- Better ventilation: By having broader windows and an extra window on the top of the bus maintains very good air circulation.
- High frequency of the buses: The bus frequency is anywhere between 4 to 8 minutes from 6 in the morning to 11 in the night.
- Better information system: There are proper LED displays in the bus stop and inside the buses that inform about the wait time for the next bus and next stop name during the journey.
- Better space management: capacity to seat 35 and space for 50 passengers to stand.
- Reduce headache of individual driving and increase safety, specially for people like me who are regular travelers.
- Helps to reduce carbon emission by promoting public transportation.
- Rechargeable smart card for ticketing with no additional cost of travel. The fare is really cheap.
- Time saving because of a dedicated bus lane allows the bus to operate separately, without interference from other modes of traffic.
Best thing about entire BRTS system is that it has taken care of disabled people. Starting from reaching to bus stop, inside the stop, entry and exist from bus in all the steps BRTS is in true sense a disabled friendly system.
- Bus stands have ramps specially to make them disabled friendly.
- Bus are more disabled friendly as the floor of the buses coincide with the floor level of bus stand/stop and is friendly even to disabled.
- Bus stops have detailed route maps and fare details – BOTH IN ENGLISH AND GUJARATI.
- Separate Entry and Exit points.
I just love it. Congratulations to BRTS and Happy Journey now!!!
