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Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) seems to be limping back to business slowly but steadily. To start with, the passenger traffic has increased within two weeks of resuming services and the daily turnover has touched 60% of the pre-lockdown figures. The number of women passengers has seen a spike, thanks to the free ride that the government has offered them.
Presently, TNSTC buses see 4.5 lakh passengers, 1.5 lakh of them women, a day on an average in the district. The daily turnover now stands at Rs 61.09 lakh.
After suspending operations in May because of the rising number of Covid-19 cases, the TNSTC had resumed town and mofussil bus services in the state on July 5.
Coimbatore: A day after the state government introduced night curfew to contain spread of Covid-19, the number of people using public transportation has come down.
Footfall in state-run buses in the district has dropped to 60% since Tuesday from 80% in the previous weeks. It is expected to come down further.
The government implemented night curfew between 10pm and 4am on Tuesday and announced total lockdown on Sundays with only essential service allowed in the state. Subsequently, Tamil Nadu state transport corporation (TNSTC) reduced the number of trips and retained most of the buses to ensure uninterrupted service.
“Compared to the 675 town buses that were operated before the night curfew, we now operate 642. Trips were reduced slightly so that they would reach the depot before 10pm instead of 11.30pm,” a TNSTC official said. “We are operating all the 337 mofussil buses. To ensure that mofussil buses reach the depot before the curfew, we have reduced the number of trips by