Chennai sources have stated that the State Express Transport Corporation, which had resumed bus services to Karnataka on Sunday, terminated its buses at Hosur on the advice of the police due to the tense situation prevailing in the neighboring State taking into consideration the safety of passengers and the vehicles.
According to an official, only on Sunday the authorities of State Transport Corporations had resumed full bus operations between Chennai and Bengaluru from the Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus (CMBT) after a week-long suspension of service as fallout of the violence over the Cauvery row.
Meanwhile a senior official of the SETC in the CMBT depot has said the bus bay allotted for Bengaluru-bound buses have been closed even as commuters wanting to go to Bengaluru are being advised that bus services are available only till Hosur and the SETC, which operates around 150 buses on weekends, operates only 100 buses during weekdays and even most of these buses are not fully occupied.
The SETC official has stated that the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), which was operating buses between Bengaluru and Chennai regularly even during the tense situation for the past one week, has stopped operating the bus services and several KSRTC buses which was parked at the CMBT have stopped bus services towards Bengaluru.
