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Red the new colour of comfort for Delhi

Staff Reporter

A new beginning: Delhi Transport Corporation is inducting red low-floor buses into its fleet from June 1.

NEW DELHI: The Capital will take another major leap in the field of public transportation with induction of air-conditioned buses into the Delhi Transport Corporation fleet this coming week. These red low-floor buses will hopefully draw more and more users of cars and other private vehicles over to the public transport system. The new air-conditioned buses would provide the citizens a more comfortable mode of travel, especially in the hot and humid summer months. According to Delhi Transport Minister Haroon Yusuf, these would form the first lot of air-conditioned buses to be inducted into the DTC. At present parked at the Tata yard in Ghazipur in East Delhi, five of them would operate on the Bus Rapid Transit corridor. “They would operate from the commercial and business hub of Connaught Place, through the Shivaji Stadium terminal, and would provide access to the people of South Delhi to the metro railway network as Connaught Place is an important intersection of the Delhi Metro.” The remaining three buses would run on other routes. “Till now, people using air-conditioned cars had few alternatives. Even if they wanted to take the Delhi Metro, they would hesitate on account of absence of air-conditioned buses on the feeder routes. These buses would fill this space,” said a senior official. As for the fares, three slabs of Rs.10, Rs.15 and Rs.25 are being considered.

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