Quickly, passengers eager to catch a bus to Uttar Pradesh or Bihar can get it immediately from Anand Vihar Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT) and needn’t go elsewhere. Equally, anybody wishing to move off to the hills or Punjab can get a bus at Kashmere Gate.
That is as per the Transport Division’s plan to decentralise inter-state bus operations and to cut back site visitors congestion on roads, journey time, and curb vehicular air pollution,
There are three ISBTs in Delhi — Kashmere Gate, Anand Vihar and Sarai Kale — from the place inter-state buses to completely different states or cities originate and terminate.
“At present, there isn’t any systematic segregation… A variety of buses originating and terminating at Anand Vihar additionally ply from Kashmere Gate… this additionally consists of non-public buses… resulting in heavy site visitors snarls on roads and creating difficulties for passengers… Below this plan, buses from a sure state can originate and terminate solely at a devoted ISBT,” stated a senior official.
Officers stated it will likely be on comparable strains to Delhi’s railway stations.
“There’s a methodology to departures and arrivals at Sarai Rohilla, New Delhi, Outdated Delhi and Nizamuddin stations… We’re planning one thing comparable for buses. For example, if I’ve to go to Bihar, I do know the bus will ply solely from Anand Vihar… and needn’t go to Kashmere Gate… This plan will assist deal with congestion on roads and make it handy for folks,” added the official.
The division has additionally issued a discover in search of feedback from the general public and stakeholders.
Right here is the plan:
-Buses coming from Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, J&Okay, Nepal and different Northern states will originate and terminate at ISBT-Kashmere Gate
-These from UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar and different japanese states will originate and terminate at ISBT-Anand Vihar.
-Buses from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and different Southern and Western states will originate and terminate at ISBT-Sarai Kale Khan.
As per officers, the very best variety of inter-state buses run from Kashmere Gate — it sees 1,500 to 1,600 buses a day, which will increase to 1,750 a day in the course of the festive months of October, November and March.
Anand Vihar, in the meantime, sees 800-850 buses per day and touches 1,000 throughout competition time; Sarai Kale Khan sees 200-260 buses on a median per day. This consists of private-run All India Transport Buses.
In September, comparable modifications to decongest the bus terminals have been introduced similar to the identical parking charges for personal and authorities buses, mounted time slots for the usage of the bus bay, and the usage of FASTag for monitoring the autos. The choice to implement these modifications, as per officers, was taken at a high-level assembly chaired by L-G V Okay Saxena.
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