New (3rd) TMT depot, 791 services with 22 buses, 228 crew?

Thane City may just manage to have a somewhat improved local bus service with some progress reported in getting a new bus depot in Anandnagar on Ghodbunder Road.

From this depot on a seven-acre site, 22 Thane Municipal Transport (TMT) buses would operate 791 trips, Pudhari reported today.

The bus routes which could improve are routes 54 Thane-Kasarvadavli, 62Thane-Bhrahmand / Dattachapada, 121-Mulund Kelkar College - Brahmand, 51 Thane - Waghbil, 52 Thane- Patlipada, 65 Thane-Koknipada / Tikkujiniwadi, 53, Thane - Owla.

The date from when these operations would commence has not been mentioned. As many as 228 TMT staffers are in the process of being transpfered from Vitava and Wagle Estate depots, the newspaper said. Anandnagar would be TMT's third depot.

This should have been in operation at least a year ago but despite budgetary provision of Rs 37 lakh in 2010, the work order to get the depot ready was delayed - no work orders were issued and now, double is to be spent on the same work.