21st November, 2008 - Even a new bus terminal can stall a district

When a busy bus terminal shifts to a new and wider space, the biggest losers are the shops in and around the old terminal. But why should every one in that particular municipal limits suffer? Yes, it is very much possible in Kerala where traders and business houses in the municipal limits observed a day long hartal against the move to shift the entire bus fleet to the new bus terminal.

The Forum for People, taking up the bus passengers cause have also opposed the move to shift bus operation to the new terminal even as the private bus owners refused to operate covering both the bus stations citing traffic snarls along the narrow roads connecting the two.