BRT blocked; ply buses on left only, say residents

  • 21/07/2008

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)

Residents of Madangir in south Delhi blocked the traffic at the Pushpa Bhawan crossing on the pilot Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor on Monday morning, inconveniencing scores of commuters headed to work. The protesters demanded that the bus lanes throughout the corridor should be shifted to the extreme left of the road. After facing a flak for the design of the corridor when trial runs started, the government took a decision to shift the bus lanes to the extreme left in half the corridor which had not been commissioned. The two designs