150 bus shelters to come up across the city soon

GURGAON: After launching the city bus service recently, Haryana Roadways has now started finalizing the list of bus queue shelters to come up across Gurgaon.
However, the state government is yet to decide whether the shelters would be fully funded by it or constructed on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. Haryana Roadways general manager Yashendra Singh said that the transport department has drawn a tentative list of 150 bus queue shelters to be built across the city and would soon hand it over to the city’s civic agencies including the Haryana Urban Development Authority and the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon.
When contacted, MCG commissioner Sudhir Rajpal said, “The corporation has written to the government seeking its decision on the model on which it wants the shelters to be built.” Meanwhile, Haryana Roadways has said that buses will stop wherever passengers flag them down till the shelters come up. However, the move has not helped passengers who don’t usually carry a route map of buses and are finding it difficult to stand on roads because of the rising temperature.
Also on Monday, Haryana Roadways started bus services on three more routes in the city, taking the total number of intra-city routes to seven. The new routes, HUDA City Centre Metro Station-Sohna Road-Badshapur, Basai Chowk-Bus Stand and Palam Vihar-Bus Stand, will become fully operational from Tuesday. Twenty extra buses have been pressed into service on the routes. According to Singh, 11 routes were initially identified for the bus service. “Seven routes have been made operational. The remaining four routes will also be made operational in a phased manner as and when we get additional buses. People can send in their suggestions by June 15 by post or in person in this regard,” Singh said. Singh said the department has plans to buy five Volvo buses for Gurgaon to Jaipur and Agra. The passenger occupancy on these routes are also being explored.