Mangalore: Volvo Bus Service to Airport Begins Amid Protests from Taxi Assn

Mangalore: Volvo Bus Service to Bajpe Airport Begins
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (VA)
Mangalore, Jul 16: The KSRTC Volvo bus service has been started to city airport at Bajpe here on Friday July 15.

The bus will commence from KSRTC stop to airport at 7.05 am, 10.05 am, 1.05 pm and 4.20 pm. From the airport the bus will start towards KSRTC at 8 am, 11 am, 2.15 pm and 5.15 pm. As of now these four trips have been planned.
The bus will travel via Bejai, KPT, Bondel, Kavoor, Marakada routes and reach the airport and come through the same way from airport to KSRTC bus stop.

The AC bus had 43 seats in it. The KSRTC might extend the bus facility upto city railway station and state bank in future, according to sources.

Taxi Association ObjectsThe members of Tourist Taxi Association have protested against the new facility as it would be of loss to them. “First of all we get very few commuters but with this move we would be under huge loss as it was the only source of income for us”, they lamented. They urged that they busses shouldn’t be parked in the flyover near airport.
The airport director A R Vasudev and police officials somehow managed to convince the taxi drivers.