The Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) has put up display boards (in Tamil) of the route numbers inside the Chromepet bus stop.
The number-boards have been put up on route-basis, towards Guindy, Adyar and Thiruvanmiyur – 21G (Broadway – Tambaram), PP21 (Broadway – Guduvancherry), 577 (Mandavelli – Chengalpet), 91 (Thiruvanmiyur – Tambaram), and 91G (Thiruvanmiyur – Guduvancheri); Guindy, Saidapet, DMS, TVS and Chennai Central – 1B ( Thiruvottiyur – Tambaram), 18A ( High Court – Tambaram), 18A (High Court – Tambaram), 500 ( Chengalpet – T. Nagar), 500B ( High Court – S.P. Koil), B18 ( Korukuppet R.S. – Vandalur Zoo), E18 ( High Court – Guduvancherry) and G18 (T. Nagar – Guduvanchery), Pozhichalur, Pammal and Kundrathur – M52 (Pozhichalur – Guduvanchery), 52C (Hasthinapuram – T. Nagar), 66 (Poonamallee – Tambaram), 66A (Hasthinapuram – Kundrathur), PP66 (Poonamallee – Vandalur Zoo), 166 (Tambaram – Iyyappanthangal), 266 ( Avadi – Tambaram), 566 ( Kundrathur – Thiruporur) and 566A (Tambaram – Thiruvallur) and Ashok Nagar, Vadapalani and Koyambedu – 18M ( Vadapalani – Tambaram), G70 ( Vadapalani – Guduvanchery), 70A ( Avadi – Vandalur Zoo), 114 ( Red Hills – Vandalur Zoo), 170A (Madhavaram – Vandalur Zoo), 170T (Vandalur Zoo – Kaviarasu Kannadasan Nagar), 170K (Ambattur O.T. – Guduvanchery) and 170L (Kallikuppam – Vandalur Zoo).
According to official sources, display boards in Tamil and English will come up in bus stops across the city. The initiative will be carried forward in a phased manner.
Commuters have welcomed this initiative by MTC. They have urged the officials to have route boards displayed in Tamil, English and Hindi.
