Steps can be taken to extend the time hole between non-public buses that function within the State to between 5 and 10 minutes, from the current hole of roughly three minutes, to forestall unhealthy competitors and reckless driving, Transport Minister Okay.B. Ganesh Kumar mentioned right here on Tuesday.

A call on this regard can be taken based mostly on accident-related and different knowledge collected by the Kerala Highway Security Authority and the Transport division. The rearrangement of time hole is essential to bettering the standard of public transport and stopping accidents because of undue competitors amongst non-public buses.

Such an inexpensive time hole is the norm in most international locations. Initiatives like set up of CCTVs in non-public buses have helped reduce accidents and improve fare assortment since unscrupulous bus crew can not anymore hoodwink house owners on every day passenger footfall. Many homeowners had been thus incomes as much as ₹3,000 further per day, the Minister mentioned.

Earlier, he visited the bottlenecked Vyttila Junction and mentioned that measures had been on the anvil to streamline site visitors stream.