Senseless Volvo Bus Time Schedule to Infopark Cochin

Infopark is one of the major IT parks in South India and is situated in Kakkanad, Cochin. This IT park consist of some of the big names like Wipro, TCS, IBS, UST etc and is just near to the proposed Smart City. A large number of employees from all over India works in different companies inside the Infopark Campus. The campus has almost all the facilities needed for a top class IT park and almost all the employees working in Infopark is satisfied with the available facilities.

The one thing that created issues with the employees was the lack of public transport facility available to the Infopark Campus. There were no enough bus services from Kakkanad Town to Infopark Campus, which is almost 3 kms and employees always had to hire an auto rikshaw to get to their respective offices in time. As we all know, the auto rickshaws in Kakkanad is one the most looting type in the whole of Ernakulam district and for traveling a mere 3 kms they charge between 30 to 35 rupees. So coming to the office everyday by auto is not affordable to all the employees and no one is interested to pay such a huge fare towards the auto rickshaws.

It was around 2 months ago that the Government of Kerala introduced low floor Air conditioned Volvo buses in Cochin to improve the transportation facilities in Cochin. A few Volvo buses were alloted to Infopark and everyone in Infopark were happy as they would not have to pay high fares to the looting auto rickshaws. In the beginning everything was fine and the low floor Volvo buses started their services in a much timely and punctual manner. But after a few weeks everything went wrong and the AC Volvo buses were not able to maintain the punctuality in their services.

The bus service to and fro Infopark started to be in a much senseless manner. The working time of most of the companies in Infopark ends around 5:30 - 6:30 PM and it is the peak time when the employees start going home and they most need transportation facilities at this time. But the Volvo buses never come at this point, rather they start coming from 6:45 PM to 8:00 PM, when no body is around and these KSRTC fools start complaining that there are no enough travelers and their bus service is facing a huge loss.

Such is the case in the morning time. I come from Angamaly and usually catches the Volvo bus to Infopark from Aluva KSRTC bus stand. I catch the bus at 7:40 AM and as far as I am concerned I like coming to the office early and this is a comfortable time for me. But most of the days this service from Aluva is almost empty as there would not be much employees at this time. Instead of this if they schedule the service around 8:15 or 8:30 AM a lot of employees and KSRTC would benefit from it. There are few trains from Thrissur side on which employees come to Infopark and these trains usually reach Aluva around 8:15 AM. When these employees reach Aluva they find it too difficult to get a bus to Infopark as the ordinary KSRTC buses to Kakkanad are always full packed and the employees have to get down at Kakkanad and hire an auto to Infopark.

Same is the case with the Volvo service from other destinations in and near Cochin. I am still wondering what these fools (KSRTC) are doing as they are creating self loss by running the buses at inappropriate time. There is not even a single man with a brain in KSRTC to note this thing even after receiving negative feedback from the travelers. This is not the case with just the AC low floor Volvo buses, but even with the ordinary KSRTC bus services to Kakkanad, the Government is taking a senseless step which I would blog about later.