AMARAVATI: The APSRTC will be operating special services from various districts to Vijayawada, Guntur and Kurnool for the 12-day long Krishna Pushkaralu in August. APSRTC officials said that as many as 2,700 bus services would be introduced to and from Vijayawada, Guntur and Kurnool. These are in addition to the regular services of the Corporation, which would continue their normal operations without any disturbance, informed G. Jaya Rao, APSRTC executive director, operations.
Mr Jaya Rao said that buses entering Vijayawada and Guntur from various districts would not be allowed to enter these two cities or ghats directly, but would diverted to temporary Satellite Bus Stations (SBS). He said that buses from Srikakulam, Vijayana-garam, Visakhapatnam and Nuzivid would be halted at YV Rao Estate. Buses from East and West Godavari districts would be stopped at NTR Health University.
Buses coming from Machilipatnam, Gudivada, Avanigadda and other areas on that route to Vijayawada would be halted at the at Siddhartha Engineering College. At the same time the buses reach from Hyderabad and Jaggayyapet side to Vijayawada would be halted at Zakir Hussain College Grounds. Buses from Mylavaram and Tiruvur would halt at VTPS ?A? Colony Grounds.
Mr Jaya Rao explained that the buses reaching Guntur from four Rayalaseema districts -- Chittoor, Kadapa, Kurnool and Anantapur, and also from Nellore and Prakasam districts would diverted to Mahapushkara Nagar at Gorantla in Guntur via Perecherla. All these buses would have the board as Amara-vati, but none of them would allowed to reach Amaravati directly. On the other hand, buses on route to Guntur from the districts including Prakasam, Nellore and Rayalaseema with the board as Undavalli Aims. They would be halted at Kolanukonda on the National Highway. Buses coming with the name of Undavalli would not be allowed to enter the Guntur city and reach Kolanukonda directly from the National Highway, Mr Jaya Rao said.
