This forum seriously lacks photos and hardly any talk of public transportation. So this new thread to share photos and discuss developments with SETC, TNSRTC, and the metro and city buses, bus terminals etc
From Wiki about TNSTCTNSTC is the second largest transport in India and is well known for its route coverage almost to every remote area within Tamil Nadu. TNSTC bus fare is the lowest in the country.
Tamil Nadu Bus transport corporation was first in India to introduce excellent paintings in buses. Apart from this, school students get a pass to travel in the buses for free from their school to their home town, these passes are issued by the Government of Tamil Nadu.
TNSTC has its own Coach Building Units and it uses Ashok Leyland buses.
Tamil Nadu Transport Development Finance Corporation Ltd., (TDFC) is a joint venture of TNSTC which collects deposits from public in order to fund TNSTC.
Established:1972
Total No of Buses :19500 (as on Mar 2008)
Total No of Employees: 1.3 Lakhs (0.13 million) All over TamilNadu.
Divisions:Chennai,Villupuram,Kumbakonam,Salem,Coimbatore,Madurai.
^^From Wiki about TNSTC
Not all the transport corporation are in loss. Villupuram/Kumbakonam & Salem are not loss making ones for sure.^^
I challenge the Wiki, TN Transport not in profitable state, its running under loss. I had already posted it from govenment website.
It don't count when total is in loss.Not all the transport corporation are in loss. Villupuram/Kumbakonam & Salem are not loss making ones for sure.
MTC, SETC, Madurai and Coimbatore are loss makers as per 2008 news.
Sorry, Didn't notice your post.^^Changed.
Come September and 300 new Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses will be on the city roads. A couple of months later another
600 new buses will join the fleet. All the 900 will be semi-low floor buses, each costing Rs 20 lakh.
According to official sources, the state transport department recently issued orders to procure 1,500 new buses 900 for the MTC and 300 each for the Coimbatore and Madurai transport corporations under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Mission (JNNURM) scheme.
Ashok Leyland will supply 1,000 buses and the Tata group 500. The department is expected to issue orders to procure 100 airconditioned buses in a couple of weeks, sources told The Times of India.
"About 300 buses are to be delivered by the end of this month and the remaining should be delivered in a phased manner by October-November. We are going to issue orders for 100 airconditioned buses soon and we hope the MTC will have 1,000 new buses by December this year,'' a senior transport official said.
The MTC presently has 3,350 buses of which 3,000 are on the road and 350 kept as spare vehicles in depots. The fleet includes 1,000 buses that are 10 to 12 years old; the normal life-time of a bus is 7-8 years. MTC officials said 40% of the new buses would be used to replace old vehicles and the remaining 60% inducted as additional buses. This would increase the fleet strength to about 4,000.
On the procurement of airconditioned buses, officials said all would be Volvo buses, eachi costing about Rs 80 lakh. The MTC currently has 30 airconditioned buses.
The expected induction of more new buses could increase the corporation's daily revenue by Rs 30 lakh. Presently, it earns an average of Rs 1.80 crore daily transporting about 50 lakh passengers on 650 routes in the city and suburbs. MTC buses make about 40,000 trips every day, or a distance of about 8.30 lakh km.