Buses provides the commutators point to point transport at any point of time. For a person to use Chennai MTC services its really difficult because first of all they need to understand the routes and bus schedule. You can sometime find it hard know the information of of MTC Chennai.
For the convenience of the passenger MTC Chennai has launched their official website and its also includes bus routes information and guide. By using this maps you no longer would like to refer paper maps.
MTCbus.Org is the MTC Chennai official site and you can find the history behind the MTC Chennai and much more details, glad to know that it has 22,000 employees working.
MTC Chennai now provides bus route information on their portal available under Routes Page. You can search accordingly by Route Wise or Stage Wise.
Stage Wise Information
Route wise search will search all the buses originating from one place to other destination. You need to select station from Drop down menu for both origin and destination and hit Search.
The search then will list down all the buses in a serial manner arranged accordingly to their Route number (bus number). The listing will also provide detailed information like Route number, Service Type (Ordinary, L|SS, Delux, Express or M-Route), journey time in minutes and origin station and destination station of the bus. A click on Route number listed will show you all the details about that bus like stage names. This is what I got for 1A Route bus-
Route Wise Information
When you are looking to track a particular Route Number of a bus then this is the place for you to search out and find the details. From the Routes select Route Wise Info and from the drop down select the route number and click on search.
The details will be then listed and with the options to View Route Map including fare details.
The only back drop or the limitation of this site is that it doesn’t offer the timing and the frequency of the buses.
Chennai Bus Route Guide at Rab.in
Seeing this there is an also one more portal to access this information in more simple ways. The service is located at Rab.in/bus/chennai.
Unlike the above official site Rab.in will tell you where you can change buses if there are no direct buses to the destination that you have selected. The homepage has got very simple look with no ads and now you have the stop names from and to, hit enter.
Now you have the list of Bus number to guide you and if there are no direct buses, as said by them they will also guide in this step to/ from a middle stop. Here is one example of such-
Buses in Chennai are runs by Metropolitan Transport Corporation Ltd, Chennai. Buses in Chennai don’t always runs on a particular schedule, they have schedule but they get delayed normally because of traffic jams and rush in the bus.
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