TSRTC bus services cancelled mid-way on highway

Hyderabad: Several bus services of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation were cancelled or terminated mid-way on Friday due to rainwater overflowing on highways, culverts and bridges following heavy rains.

Preliminary estimates have put the damage to highways and district roads at Rs 10 crore. Roads and buildings minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has directed officials to immediately take up repairs of roads, culverts and bridges, and estimate the damage in detail only later.

Traffic slowed down on the Hyderabad-Mumbai highway and the Hyderabad-Bengaluru highway near Mahabubnagar due to bad road conditions.

“About 25 per cent of the 12,000 bus trips were cancelled due to flooding of highways, major district roads and village roads, culverts and bridges in the state. Bus services were also cancelled due to lack of passenger traffic. People are not travelling due to heavy rains,” said TSRTC chief transport officer Mr Muni Shekhar.

There is no rush of passengers for RTC buses even after cancellation of over 100 train services due to breaching of railway tracks on the Nadikudi-Guntur section and also diversion of trains due to ongoing repair-cum-improvement works on tracks near Vijayawada railway station.