Bannerughatta

This is from Bannerughatta Biological Park, here in Bangalore. I took my cousin and niece there. Here in Bangalore, people have a general belief that BG road is very bad. But it is not the case. At least now, the BMP has been taking steps to rennovate / relay many of the road in Bangalore city, the recent ones I encountered with are Convent Road and Museum Road. The BG Zoological park is exactly 20 km from the Brigade Road Rex theatre. They have a Grand Safari there costing Rs 110 on holidays and 85 on weekdays. One thing to note here is that the Grand Safari does not cover Elephant Safari, for which you need to go for a separate safari. Safari lasts for 50 min and if you are lucky, the tigers and lions will come and kiss your van and go. Otherwise they will be like students in a boring history class. I had a chance to shoot some one or two snaps in my RAZR. More than the safari, the zoo is maintained very good. They have installed something called info-park which is an
automatic info machine (similar to Railway Info system) where you can browse through different species of birds, reptiles and animals and get information about them. It takes around 2 hours to go around and see the zoo.

SETC - KSRTC

Last week I went to Coimbatore from Salem. We had an appointment at 12:30 pm. By the time we finished our breakfast in Saravana Bhavan - opp to MGR Central Bus Stand (the new name of Salem New Bus Stand) and reached the platform, there were two buses ready, one dabba SETC bus and a comparitively very good condition Salem Corporation bus. The SETC bus was actually destined to Ernakulam, so we thought that it would go faster, so we got into that bus. But hopeless it was. Pick-up was too poor. When it slows down, it takes almost 30 to 45 seconds to reach back its original speed. Before that something else will come infront or it happened that most
of the time, our bus followed some other vehicle in the front. Boss, you need a good pick up to overtake. One more important thing to observe here is that, almost till Avinashi, there were only 10 people in the bus including the driver and conductor. By the time it reached Avinashi, the Salem corporation bus had overtaken us. It always happens, as someone said, whenever there is 50-50 chance of choosing something right, in 90% of the cases you will choose the wrong one. While coming back, while boarding, I asked "Eppo bus eduppinga?". The driver without turning back, "apparam edhukku start panni vachirukkom?" replied. The drivers/conductors always get tensed when you ask "When will the bus reach the destination?"

Ok I deviated from the point. Coming back.... The SETC buses are far inferior quality when compared to KSRTC, their Karnataka counterparts. It is hightime that the SETC Authorities think of some rennovation/innovation in their administration.