Passenger-Cum-Bus Shelters at Service Bus Stand in Mangalore Likely to be Ready in Three Months

The passenger-cum-bus shelters at the service bus stand in the city will be built in another three months. Mangalore city south MLA D. Vedavyasa Kamath laid foundation stone for building the shelters on Friday, September 6. The shelters will be built at an estimated cost of ₹3 crores by Mangalore smart City Ltd (MSCL) under the smart city mission.

The city corporation has already built two long shelters at the bus stand. The MSCL will build another three long shelters and a mini-shelter. Mayor Sudheer Shetty Kannur said that after all shelters are ready, as many as 66 buses can be parked at the bus stand at a time. In each shelter, 12 buses can be parked on both sides as six buses on each side. Each shelter is 85 m long, three m wide, and 4.2 m high. The city corporation is building two washrooms in the bus stand. The land of the service bus stand is under the Revenue Department though the bus stand is in the jurisdiction of the city corporation. Hence, the district administration can hand over the maintenance of the bus stand to the bus operators’ associations.