The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation’s Travel as You Like (TAYL) T-6, and F-24 tickets, which were launched to improve ridership and rake in revenue in the Greater Hyderabad Zone, got off to a sluggish start, but over the past weeks have clocked promising numbers.
While the TAYL tickets allowed passengers unrestricted trips on they day of the purchase of ticket, the T-6 tickets are a six-hour pass that allow passengers — senior citizens and women — to travel within the city for six hours, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The F-24 tickets are available on holidays for four ticket holders, primarily families or friends, to travel for 24 hours as much as they like, for ₹ 300.
Around 1,800 T-6 tickets were being sold on a daily average. However, the number has doubled, according to officials. “We are seeing a marked improvement, and are doing well. The average sale per day for the month of April was 3,723,” executive director (Operations) P.V. Munishekar said, adding that the sale on April 21 was 4,395 and a day before Eid (April 22), it was 3,721.
