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Volume 4 Issue 13 - July 01, 2006
200 high-capacity buses to hit Delhi roads in next six months
D.N.I.S. News Network Delhi Transport Corporation has given the
green signal for specially designed low-floor buses to ply in
Six low-floor
buses have already been operating in the city since November 2005. But due
to the need for wide and levelled roads for their operation, these buses have
been restricted to only Route No. 620 stretching from Shivaji Stadium to Hauz
Khas bus terminal.
The H.C.B.S.
was envisaged as a system where specially-designed buses could run at high
speed along five specially-built corridors as the existing roads are not compatible.
R.I.T.E.S.,
the project consultant is reported to have said that tenders had not been
awarded even for the first corridor, despite the fact that the Supreme Court,
in its ruling in March 2006, had given the Delhi Government eight weeks to
complete the tender process.
The H.C.B.S.
has a long history starting 2002 when the five corridors were first identified.
Plans were to be drawn up in 6-9 months and implemented in a year. Tenders
were invited in October 2004. In December the same year, the Planning Commission
allotted Rs. 122 crore. After this the project almost came to a standstill,
and in May 2005 the Transport Department moved fresh tenders with the realisation
that the cost had overshot the estimates. Finally, in November 2005 six high-capacity
buses started plying on two routes, but were shifted to only Route No. 620
a month later.
One hopes that this time round the disabled friendly buses will finally be on the roads as planned.
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