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The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has launched caller ‘Vegadootha’ limited-stop explicit autobus services aimed astatine improving suburban connectivity and reducing question clip for commuters travelling crossed the city’s outskirts.
On Friday (May 22), Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy launched the caller autobus services, which volition run connected 2 cardinal routes: Tin Factory to H. Cross and Hosakote to Nelamangala.
According to BMTC, the corp presently operates 6,275 schedules with astir 65,945 regular trips, covering astir 13 lakh kilometres and serving an mean of 45 lakh passengers each day. The Vegadootha services, which already tally connected 11 routes connecting suburban towns, payment astir 60,000 passengers daily.
As portion of the expansion, a caller way numbered EX-317HC volition link Tin Factory to H. Cross with 7 schedules, operating 60 trips astatine a frequence of 30 minutes. Another route, EX-STRR-1, volition link Hosakote to Nelamangala with 11 schedules, providing a nonstop nexus that bypasses postulation congestion successful cardinal Bengaluru.
The fare for the Tin Factory–H. Cross way has been fixed astatine ₹60, portion the Hosakote–Nelamangala way volition outgo ₹110. The routes volition walk done cardinal points including KR Puram, Devanahalli, Doddaballapura, and different important suburban hubs.
Officials said that the inaugural follows the State government’s determination to widen the corporation’s operational jurisdiction from 25 km to 40 km nether the Greater Bengaluru Authority limits.
