Chaos,as festive rush taxes bus stations

By Monday evening 323 extra buses were plied from Shivajinagar,360 from COEP grounds and 450 extra buses were released from the Swargate station.

“People travelling to nearby places such as Kolhapur,Ahmednagar,Satara etc do not book tickets and that is the reason for the commotion,” said Vijaykumar Diwate,depot manager,Swargate.

But the state transport managed the crowd by plying extra buses especially for those who hadn’t booked their tickets.

“We have learnt from our last year’s experience. Though we try to give reservation to as many people as possible. There are a large number of people who turn up without any reservations. We are plying extra unreserved buses for such people,” said an officer Vilas Patil

The depots have also borrowed buses from rural bus depot in the district. “About 40 buses have been borrowed and have been kept on stand by to use them if needed,” said Patil.

On Saturday and Sunday there was huge rush at all the ST stations in the city. The rush somewhat subdued on Monday as it was a working day. The depot officials are expecting a heavy flux on Tuesday.

Extra train coaches

To deal with the Diwali rush ,Pune division of Central Railway has added extra coaches on the following trains: 12129 Pune–Howrah,up to November 30,11050 Kolhapur – Ahmedabad and 12113 Pune-Nagpur up to November 5,12147 Kolhapur-Nizamuddin up to November 8,11045 Kolhapur – Dhanbad up to November 3,12850 Pune-Varanasi up to November 11,12729 Pune-Nanded up to November 23 and 2939 Pune-Jaipur up to November 30.