Sunday, January 28, 2007

ST buses v/s BEST buses

The first difference which comes to my mind when thinking about the topic is the speed with which they travel,

st buses take almost a straight line path where as the best buses ..oh boy! god knows why have they been cursed to take most busiest and the most boring route possible and by the time you reach the desired stop ..you ponder "why did'nt i try take the train?" or something like, what if best buses travel with the speed of light.

traveling in best buses is not always such a bad idea provided your destination is some 30-45mins away, but if you are taking a bus from the depot or from a stop near the depot to go to the last stop of the current bus (in case you are as lazy as me to avoid taking a rick got to the station then take a ticket blah blah blah!)

then you have had it , dude

a very classic example:
my grandma stays in goregoan and i stay in chembur there is this best bus 374 starting from anushakti nagar to all the way upto goregaon..earlier i thought of the bus to be a jackpot, believe me when i say this the entire route till goregaon took me two and a half hours,
the route is so screwed up- the bus starts from anushakti nagar straight till sion circle
....there it turns and heads straight till the kalina- kurla junction literally crawling its way up till there thanks to the pedestrians,hawkers,bikers etc..... then to inner area of santacruz ,mumbai univ. ..then to vakola bridge ....... through the highway to vileparle and thats where this bus moves a lot and wastes a ton of time and makes me wanna pull my hair out till i go bald!! ...... then again through the highway by some opening near Garware (some tapri plastic manufacturing company) it heads to the andheri s.v. road via flyover +more traffic and finally to goregaon depot ...phew!!! finally

..but if you wanna look to the brighter side of it ....lets just say that people in best buses dont end up puking ,unlike in st buses which rumble,resonate,vibrate you right down to the core...so much so that things start getting out of control and such evidence can be found along the sides of these buses right below the windows ..or in some worst cases on the foot board in the gangway of the st buses..

And for some particular reason the type of people who travel in these buses also vary, people in ST buses stick to entrance like a tongue stuck on a ice frosted metal bar, but such is not the case in best buses probably because its got one door for entry and the other for exit...isliye maaf!! hai

st drivers are probably the most ruthless drivers on the planet, its not that they cause more number of casualties or bang and break more number smaller cars (which actually in some cases they do.)
its just that their speed at times is so damn high the whole chassis of the bus seems to be saying "yo driver dude its gonna blow ,what are you ? insane!!!"

and lastly but not the least about bus commuting,let me just add
S.T. buses rock dude log!!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Seems like you paying tribute to this wonderful mode of transport...:)..nice one!

The Unpaid Analyst said...

it is said only those with suicidal tendicies get to be an st driver!!....u need balls of steel to ride in an st...anyways man ST's rock !