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After almost two months of being off the roads, Delhi’s public transport system sputtered back to life on Tuesday. The empty road, I have more busy as the day progressed, although many complained of long waits for buses and cars to pluck them.
On Tuesday, the first day after the state government relaxed security lock of the rules (behind the Center to do it Sunday night), less the taxis were on the roads, most bus stops did not have the promised bailiffs , and not everyone who wanted to travel by bus was screened using an infrared thermometer.
According to reports from the government of Delhi, the state transport utility to tap more than 2,000 Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses and the cluster bus service on the Tuesday of its fleet of 6,487 buses.
The minister of transport Kailash Gahlot said that the number of buses was low due to that around 1,400 buses are at the disposal of the revenue and police departments for the movement of migrants at the railway stations and the law and order duties.
“We are facing a problem with the availability of bus drivers due to the curbs in neighboring states. We hope to have more buses on the road in the next few days,” he said.
Even as the transportation of the officials said that the number of passengers that traveled on the status of the implementation of the bus last Tuesday was only the 10% of the usual daily bus passengers of 3.2 million dollars, the passengers demanded more buses and an increase in the frequency of travel.
Many even questioned the government’s decision to open all offices, industries and allow for the construction and other economic activities to resume, citing the public transport system was “clearly insufficient” to handle the load, that is increasing with each passing day. The Subway service is still not allowed in the national capital.
Only 1,650 marshals were deployed at the bus stops on Tuesday, with the result that the people queueing at the bus stops were seen voluntarily after the social distancing protocol. On Monday, the Delhi government had said that it would deploy 4,000 marshals 740 busy bus queue shelters to ensure social distancing.
After visiting several bus stops and terminals in Delhi, HT found that the lower number of buses, along with the rule that allows only 20 passengers per bus, resulted in waiting periods for people at bus stops.
Subhash Chand (62) waited more than two hours at the Shivaji Park bus stand to board a bus to his house in Dwarka. He had an eye treatment at the Guru Nanak Eye Centre in the Maharaja Ranjeet Singh Marg, after that around 1pm, walked for about 35 minutes to get to the terminal.
“There was no self or e-rickshaw available for you to drop me in the bus terminal. It is so hot, and even in the terminal not there was a truce. I’ve been waiting for two hours for the bus. In the morning, I arrived at the bus stop in Dwarka at 8 in the morning and was able to get to one after a time,” Chand said.
In the buses, stickers, saying “it doesn’t feel” pasted on every alternate seat.
Tinku Mondal, who had come by a passenger train Howrah, West Bengal, he said that he waited for two hours before he could board a bus from Kapashera bus terminal to go to the Delhi-Gurugram border.
“I traveled from Sultanpuri to Punjabi Bagh by bus, then took an auto to AIIMS. At AIIMS, I waited 1.5 hours for the bus number 433 from Okhla to join to work in my factory,” he said.
The bus queue shelters in the Apollo Hospital, Okhla Tank, Ras Vihar, Sarita Vihar, Harkesh Nagar and Saraswati Kunj had commissioners of the management of people. Thermal screening of passengers was absent in the majority of the bus shelters throughout the city.
“Today we have begun the process to get the 1,000 without contact of the temperature control devices. We started thermal detection in a couple of select bus stops on Tuesday. But, the problem is that we only have a couple of devices that are at our disposal,” Gahlot said.
Those who chose to travel in auto-rickshaws said that they were overloaded by the drivers or had to hire several cars to adhere to the Delhi government from the rule of one of the passengers by car. Some of the cars, however, were seen to carry two passengers.
Rajesh Gupta, a former government employee, I had to go to Okhla to AIIMS, he said that the auto driver asked for ₹350 for the ride.
“It ride usually costs me about ₹150. I asked him to solve for ₹200-250, but he refused. So I had to wait for a bus for more than an hour to get home,” Gupta said.
Taxis also resumed services on Tuesday, but very few were seen on the roads. An official of the cab aggregator service provider Ola, who does not want to be identified, said the number of bookings received from Delhi was smaller in comparison with the bookings they received before the outbreak of the pandemic.
“I tried to book a taxi and the app gave me a waiting time of around 15 minutes. But due to the dynamic pricing mechanism, I had to pay around ₹40 more for my trip to Laxmi Nagar South Extension,” Ruchira Tyagi, an employee of a designer clothing store in South Extension Part 2, he said.
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