| Address: Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu |
Hi All,
I am Ravi, working in private concern in Chennai and my native is Tirunelveli, very recently I travelled in SETC from Tirunelveli to Chennai and I had very bad experience in Journey,
The story starts here,
Actual dep. time 4.00pm from tvl, so we started from our home at 3.30pm, since bus was coming from Kanniyakumari, it sharply reached tvl at 5.45pm :), again there was a issue to start from there(It’s a really big story, I m skipping this), then Police had come and solved the issue.
At last we start from tvl at 6.30pm, the max speed of bus was 50km/hr throughout the route, even though road was very good.
We reached Perungulathur at 8.30am next day morning, we all were thinking bus will go to thambaram, but here is big Kodumai, they stopped in bypass road, they asked as to get down without proper prior information in Perungulathur.
Then we had walk from bypass to near MTC bus stop :(, at last we reached home at 9.30.
But one thing, this is good Lesson learned for me, If don’t get ticket on either train or Private buses, I will cancel the date journey. :)
Aug 13, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved
I'm fed up with TNSTC Salem guys, Tnstc salem covers the route of Bengaluru to Salem and also Salem to Madurai. The most slowest drivers are these people only. They took 6 hrs for salem to Bengaluru (just for 200 Kms). You see KSRTC also have their services to Salem to Bengaluru. our Tamil nadu people are waiting for KSRTC and then travel in their buses, eventhough our buses 2 or 3 already in the counter and waiting for their time. Why people like KSRTC. because they takes only 2.30 hrs or 3 hrs to reach Salem to Bengaluru. What our TNSTC salem buses doing is going to all the district bus stands and the horrible in thing is going to all the villages including Omalur, kaveripattam, Soola giri, rayakoottai... What is this? This is not a Express Service. Town bus service. The stupid Salem depot management never took any action for this.
You See! one important this is Our buses are not running successfully inside karnataka. (For Example, 1 year back salem depot run one Salem to Shimoga service. But finally this was going under loss and finally the salem depot terminated the service.). But their buses running more successfully inside Tamil nadu. how? All people are working in IT & Software. They want to save time and go early to Bangalore. On Monday morning 6 O Clock they catch the KSRTC bus and by 9 or 10 am they get inside their Offices. Their KSRTC takes only 3 hrs. The salem TNSTC manage does not have services of BYE-PASS RIDER Buses. only one bus doing the BPR service.
You See! Even NWKRTC has its service from Salem to Davenkare in Northern karnataka. In addition to that Rajahamsa, KSRTC have their services from Salem to Bengaluru. I've visited so many times in Monday morning in Salem bus stand, people are waiting and then take KSRTC.
The Solution is: on Monday and Week-end and Festival times TNSTC salem must opperate more BYE-PASS RIDER Buses. Then only we can compete these KSRTC buses.
In Tamil Nadu more BYE-PASS RIDER buses are operated by TNSTC - Nellai and Madurai Division.
From Madurai to Tirunelveli every 1/2 an hour you can get one BYE-PASS RIDER. TNSTC nellai and madurai doing their excellent job. And this attracted south people and many are using these buses. Now-a-days people prefer BYE PASS RIDER buses than Private buses.
I travelled so many times. BYE PASS RIDER even overtakes all the ordinary private buses, SETCs, some times SHARMA, VIVEGAM volvo buses also. Its hard to believe. But happened.
So south side no problem. But still North is fully ruled by TNSTC Salem upto Bengaluru. When these Salem depot operate more BYE-PASS RIDER Buses?. when these people will have the wisdom to operate these services?.
Please operate more BYE -PASS RIDER services from salem to Bengaluru. Then only we can catch our people. Otherwise KSRTC is planing to operate more services from salem to bengaluru in 2013. If they do it, then Surely TNSTC salem is going to be under loss. Then they can run Town-Bus service from Salem to Bengaluru.