Wednesday, March 17, 2010
UPSRTC Volvo bus service
UPSRTC (Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation) has taken the right step to introduce Volvo B7R service on various routes. These are:
1. Lucknow to Allahabad
Departure: 8:00 / 9:00 / 13:00 / 18:30
Ticket price: Rs 277
2. Allahabad to Lucknow
Departure: 8:00 / 13:00 / 15:00 / 18:30
Ticket price: Rs 277
3. Lucknow to Varanasi
Departure: 8:00
Ticket price: Rs 417
4. Varanasi to Lucknow
Departure: 15:00
Ticket price: Rs 417
5. Lucknow to Agra
Departure: 8:00 / 20:00
Ticket price: Rs 527
6: Agra to Lucknow
Departure: 8:00 / 20:00
Ticket price: Rs 527
7: Lucknow to Delhi
Departure: 19:30
Ticket price: Rs 701
8: Delhi to Lucknow
Departure: 19:45
Ticket price: Rs 701
More information can be had at http://www.upsrtc.com/
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VRL Multi-axle Volvo B9R: Bangalore to Pune route experience
Read my onward journey experience HERE which really wasnt good. I had again booked my return ticket through www.redbus.in on VRL's Multi-axle B9R Volvo and though it said the bus would leave at 9:15pm, it only left Davanagere at 9:50pm, a full 35min late. The worst was however yet to come. One of the passengers was sitting on the co-driver's seat and even when the TV was shut off, they were constantly chatting loudly. At Hubli, during fuel fill-up, I requested the driver not to talk anymore as it was disturbing my sleep. However, at Hubli, one more person joined them and the talks continued. Isnt VRL aware of all this? Are we paying a thousand bucks to listen to driver and passengers talk at night? Ultimately, I had to get up from my front seat, go to the last row and sleep.
I was dropped off at Katraj bypass at 6:20am. Overall, good bus quality, but the overall experience was let down by the timing and driver's attitude. It seems i will stop taking VRL's services from next time onwards.
Read more VRL experiences HERE
Read Sharma Volvo experiences HERE
Read KSRTC Volvo experiences HERE
VRL Multi-axle Volvo B9R: Pune to Bangalore route experience
I had in the past written about my experience with VRL Volvo and as evident, havent really been very happy. I took their services yet again on the 11th of March for my frequent travel to Davanagere from Pune. For this, I booked myself on the 7pm Multi-axle Volvo via www.redbus.in
I booked seat no 3 (left row, non-window). The bus was scheduled to arrive at Katraj at 7pm and it did. However, like my previous experiences, it left the place only after 40min at 7:40pm. All this time, the passengers who had boarded at Mumbai had to be sit inside only, killing time by doing nothing. When the bus did start, two girls, seated on seat numbers 4 and 5 requested the driver to wait for just 5 mins as they had to hand over some documents to a friend. But the ignorant driver did not respond and just drove on. How shitty is that now? VRL can waste 40min doing nothing but loading parcel boxes but cant wait for 5 mins when a passenger requests??
We took a dinner break after Satara. Driver change happened somewhere enroute and the second driver was driving very fast. Infact, sometimes he was rash, braking hard and going through the bad roads between Haveri and Davangere very fast, shaking up everyone. Why do they need to do this? I really appreciate Sharma Volvo for they are quite cool through bad roads and drive fast, but in a seamless manner.
I was dropped off at Davanagere bypass at 4:20am. The return journey too was by VRL - a bad choice as i found out. Review coming up next!
Friday, March 5, 2010
SVR Volvo (Hyderabad to Mumbai) caught doing 100+
In the recent past, I have posted a lot of videos of Volvo as well as other buses doing high speeds. See my video library - http://www.youtube.com/user/bunnyp1983
Recently while traveling to Mumbai from Pune, I caught the SVR Volvo B7R, going to Mumbai from Hyderabad, doing 100km/h+.
Enjoy the video and dont forget to check out my previous video of the Volvo B7R doing 118km/h HERE
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