If you, like me (and several others) are still drooling over my last post of BEST’s mini-buses parked at Oshiwara Depot, here is another visual treat for you.
After a gap of nearly three years, a BEST bus was snapped on the Bandra Worli Sea Link!
Clicked by user Instasnapper, this bus is a Tata Marcopolo CNG midi-bus belonging to the Mumbai Central (CN) depot that is owned and operated by SMT ATPL Associates (marked by SAA next to the depot code).
I presume that this bus was on emergency duty, similar to the one spotted heading to Badlapur earlier this month.
The last time BEST had any buses on the Sea Link was prior to 2017. While several other routes existed, only three of them ran from 2014 till BEST’s eventual cancellation of AC services in 2017. These were A-74Express from Oshiwara Depot to NSCI Worli (Lotus), A-75 Express from Hiranandani Powai to NSCI Worli and A-76Express from Gorai Depot to NSCI Worli. All of them used the Cerita fleet (Purple Faeries struggling to climb the incline on the sea link) while A-74Express briefly used the Volvo fleet when it went from Oshiwara Depot to Colaba Depot (AS-4 always went from Oshiwara Depot to Backbay Depot but via Mahim). A non-AC bus 33Ltd with the same destinations as the regular 33 from Goregaon Bus Station to Pandit Paluskar Chowk (Opera House) was experimented with in 2010 according to the Hindustan Times report.
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Become a Patron!Featured image: Bandra Worli Sea Link from an A-74 Express (Photographed by Srikanth Ramakrishnan on Motorola Moto G)
Can’t get my eyes off the picture 😍
Make it your wallpaper. 🙂
nice and amazing article. I really appreciate your effort.
Thank you. 🙂