Pune: Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) stretched the bus services till 10 pm after many raised demands of extending bus timings.
As shops and businesses’ timings have been extended till 9 pm, Pune PMPML has decided to serve their customers till 10 pm from 7 pm.
Everyday, PMPML bus covered around 7000 round trips, with an average of 1,70,000 passengers. However, the passengers’ number has gone up from 165,000 to 1,80,000 in the last two days.
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In the last two days the Pune PMPML bus administration has increased the number of buses by 100 with a total of 510 buses on different routes.
“As the shops will be open till 9 pm, passengers need to be served till then. PMPML will also have to expand the service as per the ‘unlock’ phase”, Rajendra Jagtap, chairman and managing director of PMPML said.
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