Bus Woes

The West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation buses operating in the Newtown to Garia Station, Newtown to Jadavpur and Newtown to Rabindra Sadan routes are designed for discomfort of those passengers who have to remain standing. The space between the two rows of seats on either side being too large to accommodate a single file of standing passengers, the conductors are inclined to push in another file. But the space is simply too little to make room for this second file. That is why the conductor finds it too difficult to squeeze in for collecting the fare. Really, the West Bengal Government should have been wise enough to understand that employees at the Salt Lec Electronis Complex, who mostly board these buses should not be tortured this way on their way up to and back from office.