As locals resume, BEST to add more buses on short point-to-point routes
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In an attempt to provide Mumbaikars with last mile connectivity and better accessibility to public transport, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking will be adding more buses in its short feeder routes as the local trains are set to resume operation for the general public from Monday.
Most of these short routes originate from railway and metro stations and buses operating in these routes run point-to-point without any stoppages in between.
Earlier on Friday, during the inauguration ceremony of BEST control room, state CM Uddhav Thackeray had said, that BEST should plan its routes in a way that is able to complement the train and metro services and should be able to provide last mile connectivity to Mumbaikars.
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The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport or BEST s double-decker buses have been an icon for Mumbai city. BEST has operated double-decker buses in Mumbai since 1937 and they have been an integral part of the city s public transport system. Now, in the BS6 era, these buses have become obsolete, and all the old BEST double-decker buses that are more than 15 years old will go out of commission and the city has decided to auction them. However, that doesn t mean Mumbai is going to lose one of its biggest icons. BEST has also announced that it would add 100 new double-decker buses with advanced features to its fleet by early 2021.
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Undertaking will add 49 e-buses before Dec 31 and another 265 green vehicles to its fleet next year
The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking has planned to promote eco-friendly commute by adding more electric buses to its fleet next year. The BEST may receive 49 more air-conditioned e-buses before December 31 and in 2021, another 265 more e-buses will be inducted into the BEST fleet.
At present there are 72 e-buses making services under the BEST of which 66 buses are procured on wet-lease basis and the six buses are owned by the undertaking.
The new buses will have automated door facilities along with lifts for the differently-abled,WiFi, charging ports and CCTV cameras. Earlier this month, 26 e-buses were flagged off by CM Uddhav Thackeray, which the transport undertaking received under Union ministry s FAME India scheme.
BEST ferries over 400 passengers to quarantine facilities from Mumbai Airport
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The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking on Tuesday had deployed 25 of its buses for transferring the arriving passengers from the United Kingdom and the Middle East to the quarantine centres from the Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) informed that a total of 591 passengers landed in Mumbai from the UK in three different flights on Tuesday. The civic body has set up quarantine centres at a number of hotels around the airport area.
BEST Additional general manager, Rajendra Madaney told FPJ that till Tuesday evening more than 400 passengers were transferred to various quarantine centres in Mumbai via BEST buses.
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