Did you know Delhi has two bus depots built atop a drain? Yes. The Sunehri Pullah Depot and the Kushak Nallah Depot on either side of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
Both were built around 2010, when the Commonwealth Games came to Delhi. The city’s infrastructure went in for a much needed overhaul prior to the games (with the Delhi Metro Airport Express also being built at the same time along with the Violet Line that saw the Zamrudpur accident). Both of them are built on branches of the Barapullah Nallah. Both of them house the orange-coloured Cluster buses operated by the Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Ltd (DIMTS). Older readers may recall that I named them Orange Faeries in 2015.
So here is a picture of them, parked at the Western side (next to the Lodhi Road entrance) of the Sunehari Pullah depot.
They look beautiful don’t they?
This was clicked by Sohaib Ilyas. Please do follow him on Instagram: @iamsohaibilyas.
Delhi has three types of buses, the standard green non-AC buses, the maroon AC buses and the orange Cluster Buses. Cluster buses were introduced by the late former chief minister Sheila Dikshit as a replacement after phasing out the Blue Line buses.
To know more about their difference, do read this: Delhi and its Bus Melee
These Orange Faeries look cool from above, don’t they?
Featured Image: Delhi Cluster Buses (Aam Aadmi Party)
What is different with cluster busses?
Cluster buses are owned and operated by corporate bodies. They are given out in ‘clusters’ of routes. It’s a public private partnership between DIMTS and the corporate.