Mumbai: BEST has repainted a few of its buses with a new colour scheme and has asked for feedback on them.
Mumbai’s public transport ‘BEST’ buses r giving up red colour & going white & yellow. Send opinion on email in the note for final decision pic.twitter.com/JXkf01WPY6
As per the Press Note, the newly colour buses will run from 27 April to 30 April on Route 111 between Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to Gateway of India. Feedback on the new livery can be sent to probestundertaking@gmail.com
Now, for the new livery itself. BEST has replaced its trademark red colour with a white livery and yellow stripes.
Non AC BEST bus with new livery
Along with this, the BEST logo on the side has also changed marginally.
They seem to have repainted some of the Purple Faeries as well, in spite of them being pulled out of service.
Howver
AC BEST bus with new livery
However, the new livery looks grand on the Cerita bus.
Let’s see what happens. Don’t forget to send your feedback.
No, this is not an April Fool’s joke. Not even close to one.
BEST has announced that beginning 17 April 2017, operations of all AC buses will be suspended. This information was announced via a Press Note dated 13 April 2017.
BEST Press Note suspending AC services
This is a really sad thing. Mumbai is a huge city with a large number of vehicles. Cancelling AC buses would mean people will opt for cars/bikes/taxis.
BEST was among the first to introduce AC buses, way back in 1998. Things began going downhill when in 2007, then General Manager Uttam Khobragade (named in the Adarsh Scam along with his daughter Devyani Khobragade of the US Underpaid Maid infamy) procured Cerita buses by fakely claiming that they were Chinese Kinglong buses.
This is really a sad day for Mumbai. BEST had done all that it could in the last few months, from slashing fares, to introducing Happy Hours, to reintroducing cancelled AC bus routes. This is indeed a bad moment for us.
Featured Image: AS-524. (Photo Credit: Sameer More)
Vehicle manufacturers across the world have come together to launch a ‘deradicalisation program’ to prevent trucks from ramming into people.
Given the alarming rate at which occurrences of trucks ramming into crowds have been happening off late, major manufacturers across the globe have come together to form the Association For Super-prevention Of Self-radicalised-trucks (AFSOS). AFSOS will have units across the world, to cater to local markets areas in order to prevent such incidents in future.
The Indian branch, AFSOS India (AFSOS-I), comprising of members from Indian auto majors such as Volvo, Scania, BharatBenz, Ashok Leyland, Tata, Eicher and Mahindra is launching a five-step program towards countering such problems in the future. Named the Deradicalisation in Indian Road Trucks (DIRT), the program aims to do the following:
Train the trucks to not ram into living objects. Life is life. Live and let live. Do not ram yourself into living objects.
Train the trucks in non-discriminatory practices. Do not discriminate people on the road as holiday-revellers or people who are not in-sync with your beliefs.
Train the trucks to serve their purpose. A truck is mainly used to carry goods. Do that. Don’t go ramming into people. Who’ll carry the good then?
Train the trucks to meditate, or even do yoga. Given that we have finally come to terms that meditation is calming (something Yogis have been saying for years), let the trucks do Yoga.
Train the trucks to love one another. Love is paramount. Love is peace.
AFSOS-I has decided to refrain from asking Liberal voices to pipe down. They have decided to speak up, after AFSOS-US blamed immigrant trucks as the problem. AFSOS-I has decided to promote ‘Multivehicleism’ to fight ‘Racist Vehiclephobia’, after following a poll by noted Editor and Commentator of ABP News, Kanchan Gupta.
The ghastly terrorist attack in Sweden has been described as “Vehicle Terrorism” by #LeftLib prigs. How to deal with “Vehicle Terrorism”?
P.S: Find this insensitive? Think this is a mad post in a case of terrorism and people losing lives? Let’s not blame trucks or guns then; they’re just tools. As they said in the olden days, Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People. Trucks don’t kill people, people kill people.
P.P.S: Afsos is a Hindi/Urdu term for Regret or Tragic, mostly the former.
Hi Folks, it is with great pleasure that we announce a new magazine: Transit!
Transit! will be a web-magazine (using the best Content Management System available – WordPress). It will be based on a Subscription model, however, BESTpedia readers and fellow bus or transport bloggers are entitled to a free subscription for one year using the code BEST100.
Our editor-in-chief will be Ravi Marathe, a retired bus conductor from Maharashtra while our columnists will include several famed transit bloggers from India. We have also invited a few from outside the country to join us.
Unlike other so called transit magazines, we will exclusively focus on transit from the transit point of view. No fake articles talking about luxurious trips only to show you land up at some exotic beach in a foreign country, because for us, luxury is when we get into a bus that doesn’t bounce, although a bouncy bus sometimes becomes a luxury.
A tentative, and badly designed logo was prepared by our inexperienced graphics team last night, and we hope a better one will come out soon.
Transit!
We hope you are as excited about this as we are. Till then….
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PS: Skeptical about this new magazine? Well you should be because this report was a part of our April Fool prank. The Transit world has few takers for its own magazine. Unfortunate, but true.
