Pvt buses in Trichy skip bus stand, cause traffic snarls

Trichy: Several omnibuses from the private stand near the Central bus stand skipping the facility and using the city’s arterial roads to pick up and drop passengers, have been causing traffic snarls.
With the omnibuses occupying a major portion of the roads including Royal road, VOC road and service roads near the Trichy junction RoB arms, other buses exiting and entering the Central bus stand and vehicles entering the Williams road junction are stuck in traffic.Since 2018, a private omnibus stand has been functioning from the Southern Railway property.
“In recent times, the omnibuses are frequently seen parked over the Royal road near the Williams road junction. Coimbatore-bound buses are often caught in the bottlenecks,” N Selvendran, a resident of E Pudur said.
Transport corporation employees also said the private buses from Madurai, southern districts and proceeding towards Chennai stand near the entrances of the Ccentral bus stand and poach passengers approaching SETC buses.
“We are frequently booking cases against the omnibuses spotted occupying the roads and causing trouble. Peak hours will be focussed extensively to avoid traffic snarls,” a senior official said.