The transport body has made provision for the project in its budget for the financial year 2009-10 and tenders for the work will be floated very shortly.
The AMTS will be upgrading facilities for passengers at a total cost of Rs10 crore. The bus terminuses at Juna Wadaj, Akhbarnagar and Paldi will be renovated, while new depots will be installed at Shrinathnagar in Nava Wadaj and Millatnagar in Isanpur, said AMTS chairman Pravin Patel.
The transport body has made provision for the project in its budget for the financial year 2009-10 and tenders for the work will be floated very shortly. The cost of renovating the Juna Wadaj terminus has been pegged at Rs2 crore, while Rs1 crore will be spent to upgrade facilities at the Paldi one. Renovation of the Akhbarnagar terminus will cost around Rs50,000.
All three bus terminuses will be equipped with control and cash cabins, timekeeper offices and cabins for watchmen. Pre-empting the problems passengers at the Juna Wadaj terminus may face in the monsoon on account of the higher level of the road, the AMTS is planning to raise the height of the platform. “We are planning to cover the platform with a dome so that passengers will be sheltered from the rain in monsoon and heat in summer,” Patel said.
At Paldi, the transport body will renovate the existing pay-and-use toilets and place benches at the terminus so that waiting for buses is not tiresome for passengers. The AMTS will also come up with a solution for the problem of traffic management at the Paldi terminus, its chairman said.
Tenders for the construction of the depot at Millatnagar have been floated and the work is expected to be completed by Diwali.
At present, the AMTS parks its buses on the roadside near its depots at Jamalpur and Helmet circle. But with the commissioning of work on a flyover at Jamalpur crossroads, it has been facing a problem. The Millatnagar depot, which will have the capacity to house around 300 buses, will provide a solution to this problem.
The transport body will construct a two-storey building at the cost of Rs1.75 crore, with a fuel station, fitter room, salvage and tyre room, operator and timekeeper rooms, and an underwater water tank of 10,000 litre capacity.
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