Category: GMCBL

Gurugaman Plus: You Can Now Book Seats On Select Gurgaon City Buses With Uber

As part of a pilot project in Millenium City Gurgaon (Gurugram), the Gurugram Metropolitan City Bus Limited (GMCBL) and ride-sharing aggregator platform Uber have entered into a partnership. Commuters will now be able to book and reserve seats for themselves in select GMCBL buses. The pilot project will allow commuters to book tickets in the corporation’s air-conditioned buses on two routes. Commuters can book seats and follow the live location of a bus on the Uber app, much like they do with cabs on the app.

According to Uber, the company hopes to incentivise the shift to shared mobility using this project and encourage public transport. Uber hopes to use the data to provide better commuting options to passengers while also help the transport body in understanding and predicting passenger demand.

All seats on the bus will be reserved and there will be no standees.

According to the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA), the service, known as Gurugaman Plus, will operate on the following two routes:

  1. Badshahpur Bus Stand to DLF Cyber Park (Shankar Chowk) via HUDA City Centre Metro Station
  2. BPTP Astaire Garden (Sector 70) to DLF Cyber Park via Golf Course Road.

Services will be available between 7am and 12pm (noon) and 3pm to 8pm daily.

Featured Image: GMCBL’s Gurugaman Plus bus

Do enjoy your ride on the Gurugaman Plus bus, but please do take precautions.

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An Aerial Snap Of Gurugram’s Bus Depot And Metro Depot

Continuing to provide you all with amazing aerial photographs of bus depots, here is a drone photograph, but this time from a different city.

Older readers of BESTpedia might remember that in 2015, when I was undergoing an internship in Gurgaon (now called Gurugram) I had written about ways to get around the city. (Read: Getting around Gurgaon)

In the older post, I had mentioned about buses operated by the Haryana Roadways. In the five years that have elapsed since my short, yet memorable stay in the Millienium City, also erroneously referred to as Cyber City, a lot has changed. For starters, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA)– since renamed to Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) – no longer has jurisdiction over the city and handles the rest of the state while Gurgaon now comes under the aegis of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) and Faridabad comes under the Faridabad MDA (FMDA).

Further, intra-city buses in Gurgaon are no longer handled by Haryana Roadways but by a new agency – the Gurugram Metropolitan City Bus Limited (GMCBL) that is a joint venture between the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon, GMDA and the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Corporation Limited (HSIICL). In 2019, owing to the financial troubles that Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) was facing, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) took over Rapid Metro operations as well.

Here is what a GMCBL bus looks like.

Gurugram City Bus (Image Credits: GMCBL/Facebook)
Gurugram City Bus (Image Credits: GMCBL/Facebook)

Now, coming to the aerial view that I was talking about. Gurgaon is among the rare cities in India which has a Metro Depot adjacent to a Bus Depot.

The 11.7km-long RMRG line features two depots, a small one that is located adjacent to the Cybercity Phase 3 Station which is the first elevated metro depot in the country. This was opened along with the first phase of the line in 2013. Here is an aerial view of this from 2016.

The second depot which is much larger, meanwhile is located at the other end of the line, near the Sector 55-56 station. It is this depot that is located adjacent to GMCBL’s bus depot. And here is it’s picture. You’ll have to click on the image to view it.

Shot during the ongoing lockdown using a drone by Gunj Guglani, this was shared recently by TheMetroRailGuy (TMRG) who runs a fantabulous website documenting India’s metro rail. Do check it out here: themetrorailguy.com.

A double bonanza featuring both a bus depot and a metro depot!

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Featured Image: Gurugram City Bus (Picture Credits: GMCBL/Twitter)

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