PTC buses with wheelchair support
This evening I saw a PTC (now MTC) bus in Mylapore that was 'wheelchair enabled'. Neat, at one level. It was fairly busy time of the day and I could get around to talking to the driver. As such I am not sure if anyone has actually used the wheelchair facility, and how the whole thing actually works. PTC does not seem to have a website where I could find more info. I think I'll just drop by the Mandevelli bus depot tomorrow to find out more about this. It's very intriguing that PTC has decided to do this, when a wheelchair on Madras roads is a very rare sight, while not much has been done to address a much more severe, fundamental, and pervasive problem with their buses - the height of the first step. Elderly people have been complaining for ages about the difficulty of getting into and out of buses. Yet nothing is done to fix the problem in their existing fleet.