Photographs: Sahil Salve
Mercedes, the world famous luxury automobile company, has lent three buses to Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport undertaking in Mumbai to find the road-worthiness of the vehicles on an experimental basis, reports N Ganesh.
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Merc lends 3 buses for one-month trial period
Image: BEST plies Mercedes buses in MumbaiPhotographs: Sahil Salve
The 38-seater air-conditioned buses would be run by the BEST for a period of one month on existing three routes.
The three routes that have been selected to ply the Mercedes buses are route number 440 from Wadala to Borviali, route number 503 from Wadala to Kalamboli and route number AS1 from Cadbury junction in Thane to Backbay Depot.
BEST will be plying Mercedes buses for first time
Photographs: Sahil Salve
Currently BEST is plying buses of Ashok Leyland and Tata Motors. This would be first time that BEST would be plying Mercedes buses.
After the one-month trial period, the buses would be returned to the Mercedes.
'It is like a free ride'
Image: Commuters inside BEST operated Merc buses in MumbaiPhotographs: Sahil Salve
"We want to provide Merc luxury at the cost of the existing AC bus ticket. It is like a free ride offered to a buyer by the car company so that the commuter can get a feel of it," BEST General Manager, O P Gupta said.
As of now BEST has no plans to procure the Mercedes buses.
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