‘Quality bus shelters are need of the hour and women safety is top priority’

“Going forward, more corporate companies should come up to set up good infrastructure bus shelters in the city,“ said Sathyavathi G., Managing Director, BMTC. While answering readers’ questions about the bad state of bus shelters in the city during the #THTalksBengaluru, a live chat with The Hindu, she said that there is a need to set up better lighting and safety features at the shelters.  

She said that the maintenance of bus shelters is a prerogative of urban local bodies and that they are supposed to provide all the necessary infrastructure.  

“These are very pertinent questions. As a citizen first, I strongly feel that it is pitch dark in most bus shelters. There are no facilities available if there is rain or wind. We have taken this up very strongly and had many discussions with the BBMP about the absence of lights. They told us that new lights and even CCTV cameras installed as security measures have been stolen by people.”