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.
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File photo of a bus conductor giving hand sanitizer to a passenger at Tirunelveli New bus stand. (Photo | EPS/ V Karthik Alagu) By Express News Service
TIRUPPUR: Old habits die hard. Some could even prove fatal during an ongoing pandemic. Passengers travelling on a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) bus from Coimbatore on Friday freaked out on seeing the conductor wet his finger using saliva to tear up the tickets. Driven by fear of Covid spread, the passengers reported the incident to the health officials, who warned him and collected his swab samples.