After flights resumed in select sectors to allow people to return home, airports have been busy zones with people being transported to quarantine zones for the ongoing Wuhan Virus pandemic.
At Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, buses are lined up to ferry passengers to the hotels that are used for quarantine purposes. Here are some pictures:
As you can see, BEST has deployed its mini-bus fleet for this purpose. These post vans have been used for myriad purposes over the last three months. They’ve been used to carry essential supplies, they’ve been used as ambulances, they have been used as shuttle services for essential workers and more.
Here is another snap of these buses queued up at the terminal.
Now, BEST isn’t the only transco with its buses being used to ferry passengers from the airport. The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC/ST) is also using its Shivshahi fleet of AC buses to ferry passengers.
The Shivneri fleet meanwhile has been used to carry goods.
Here is a picture of the Shivneri Scania fleet parked at Nancy Colony, Borivali. The regular buses are used as cargo buses, mostly to transport mangoes.
An update: Regular buses are being used as Cargo buses with seats removed. The bus in the picture is a Malvan- Borivali cargo bus which mostly carried Mangoes.
Here is another picture of the Shivneri fleet:
Both BEST and MSRTC are using their AC bus fleet.
That’s all from me this time. Stay tuned for some more amazing drone shots to be seen though.
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I love how the mini buses were used for variety of purposes during Covid pandemic, from transporting covid patients, quarantined people to transporting essentials.
Also, I feel, if Rajdhani can be run daily, then even few services of Shivneri can be run on Mumbai Pune route.