Within two weeks after passing a resolution to tame the long route buses moving freely to reach more number of passengers disrupting the normal traffic of the city the traffic police have come down heavily and penalised around 300 buses for diverting the destined paths.
Notably, on August 12 District Road Safety Committee had organised a meeting and during the meeting the District Collector Nishant Warwade issued orders to the bus transport service providers to stick to the prescribed route to the reach the destined bus stand and should not use any other bus stand of the city overburdening the roads and the bus stands.
Additional Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Avdesh Goswami told that the roads of the city especially of old city areas except few places, are not capable of bearing the wear and tear caused by the 250 buses plying daily in the area but flouting all rules and regulations to maximize profit the buses were plying to the bus stands.
Providing solution to the problem four years ago, instructions were issued to the bus service providers to follow destined path and bus stand but they were not interested in paying heed to the orders. On August 12 during the Road District Road Safety Committee meeting it was decided to rein the bus service providers and orders were issued.
In the last two weeks more than 250 buses have been penalized which were found plying in the areas to reach the restricted bus stands, he added. Buses arriving from Raisen, Begumganj, Sagar, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, Panna, Satna, Rewa, Mandideep, Hoshangabad, Jabalpur and Nagpur which are Bhopal bound are destined have to use ISBT bus stand.
Indore bound buses are bound to use Halapur bus stand while Bhopal bound buses which arrive from Berasia are bound to use Putlighar bus stand.Sehore –Bhopal bus services which arrive city via Bhadbahda, Neelbad, Chandbad should use Jawahar Chowk bus stand.