no more foot board travel in chennai

With the recent news from MTC(Metropolitan Transport Corporation) on the introduction of Luxury buses in Chennai aka Madras, foot board traveling comes to an end. Gone are the days when we take pride in getting in & out of the bus at our will. If you have gone to college or school, of course not for studying, in the PTC bus you would appreciate this. For some 8 years I had used this mode of transport, so much of joy you would derive. Pneumatic doors operated by the driver, oh God can’t imagine that the passengers are under the mercy of the driver. Let me see how many days this mechanism would work. Many a times during my onsite trip I used to share this story with friends of mine how convenient for us we use the public transport. The best thing is you life is in u r hands, any time u feel like getting out of bus u can always do that, not any more I think so.

The funniest/adventurous part of PTC bus travel are:

# to move from rear to front – not inside the bus, using the windows, can you?
# Try getting out of the bus while the drive tries to negotiate a left turn while slanting the bus to 20 to 30 degrees, so that the ground clearance is so high that u can’t think of getting of the bus in the turn
# Accelerate at breakneck speed during the turning so that u can’t get off the bus
# deriving lot of pleasure as being an icon, by getting in last at every stop by chasing the bus and then hanging in there
# hanging in the bus with minimum possible clutch
# identify the bus by not looking at the name board rather use the coding convention that is written on the side of the bus ...and the list goes on.

Can others think of any thing else which can be added. I’m sure there is a lot more.