Bus services hit as transport workers begin strike across Karnataka, passengers stranded

Bus services hit as transport workers begin strike across Karnataka, passengers stranded

Passengers seen at Basaveshwaranagar in Bengaluru on August 5, 2025 | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Employees of Karnataka’s State-owned transport Corporations began an indefinite strike on Tuesday (August 5, 2025) morning, severely affecting public bus services across the State and leaving passengers in the lurch. The unions went ahead with the strike despite a court … Read more

Non-motorised transport projects in Kochi remain incomplete

Non-motorised transport projects in Kochi remain incomplete

Innumerable footpath stretches of the GCDA-owned Kaloor-Kadavanthra Road are in ruins. | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU The alleged delay in clearing encroachments on arterial roads and in acquiring small tracts of land has resulted in the redevelopment of drains, footpaths, and allied infrastructure on Kaloor-Kadavanthra Road (KK Road) and a couple of other arterial roads … Read more

Disabled transport access a “national embarrassment”, MPs warn

Disabled transport access a “national embarrassment”, MPs warn

Molly Stazicker and Sean Dilley BBC News Getty Images Accessibility on public transport for disabled people is a “national embarrassment”, a senior group of MPs has warned. A report by parliament’s cross-party transport select committee found “systematic” failings across all public transport and says “too great a burden is placed on individual disabled people” to … Read more

T.N. Transport Minister slams Anbumani’s remarks on caste census

T.N. Transport Minister slams Anbumani’s remarks on caste census

S.S. Sivasankar, Minister for Transport | Photo Credit: K.V. Srinivasan Tamil Nadu Transport Minister S.S. Sivasankar on Wednesday (December 25, 2024) questioned whether Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) president Anbumani Ramadoss had the courage to ask its alliance partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which heads the Union government, to conduct a caste census. He was … Read more

Anbumani criticises T.N. Transport Dept.’s proposal to operate private buses on contract basis during Deepavali

Anbumani criticises T.N. Transport Dept.’s proposal to operate private buses on contract basis during Deepavali

Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) president Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday (October 22, 2024) urged the State government to drop the Transport Department’s proposal to hire and operate private buses on a contractual basis during the Deepavali festival, expressing concern that it would lead to privatisation. In a statement, he said the State government had announced last … Read more

Transport officials book cases against private bus operators for ‘fleecing passengers’

Transport officials book cases against private bus operators for ‘fleecing passengers’

With Dasara drawing to a close, people waiting to board a bus at the Pandit Nehru Bus Station in Vijayawada on Sunday. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO Officials of the Road Transport Authority (RTA) in Andhra Pradesh have cracked the whip on erring private bus operators who fleeced the passengers taking undue advantage of the … Read more

Poor public transport forces commuters, schoolchildren travel in a dangerous manner

Poor public transport forces commuters, schoolchildren travel in a dangerous manner

Schoolchildren travelling in a dangerous manner in an autorickshaw in Tiruchi on Friday. | Photo Credit: M. MOORTHY Overcrowding in public transport during school and college rush hours in Tiruchi is causing concern among residents as it also endangers the safety of other commuters. With educational institutions reopening for the new academic year, the authorities … Read more

Autos, cabs, buses off Bengaluru roads to support strike by private transport vehicle operators

Autos, cabs, buses off Bengaluru roads to support strike by private transport vehicle operators

Most autorickshaws, cabs and private buses stayed off roads in Bengaluru on September 11 in response to a call by Federation of Karnataka State Private Transport Association. It is estimated that around 7 lakh transport vehicles operated by private persons or companies, that are part of 32 unions, will stay off the roads today across … Read more