MTC BUS ROUTES

MTC BUS ROUTES

The Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Chennai, is a Government of Tamilnadu undertaking, which caters to the transporting needs of the people of Chennai. Being of one of the largest metros in India, Chennai faces the stiff challenge of transporting people in Chennai and its suburbs. MTC is doing a outstanding service in providing transport facilities to the Chennaities.

It operates under an area of around 3900 sq. kilometers and transports around 57 lakh passengers per day. Its average revenue is around Rs. 217 lakhs per day. It has a fleet strength of about 3400 vehicles with roughly 22600 staff manning them.

Recently it has modernised its fleet, by inducting a lot of air conditioned buses in important revenue generating routes. It has introduced hydraulic door closing systems in many buses. This has prevented footboard travel. It has introduced low floor buses for the convenience of senior citizens. It has provided electronic ticket vending machines to conductors for issuing tickets. It has brought more accountability into the system.

Considerable innovation has been made in the fare structure also. If you buy a 30 Rupees ticket, you can travel on any bus for any number of times on that day. The tickets are available on almost all routes.

You can search for route information at the MTC website at http://www.mtcbus.org/. In this page click the route menu and select the routewise info or stagewise info submenu. You can select the bus route no. and click search you can see the details of the route. (click on the image to get an enlarged view)



Alternatively you can search stagewise by clicking on stagewise submenu. Choose the origin station and click search. You will get the information about the route (click on the image to get an enlarged view)



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