There is a need for a sheltered boarding point at the Electronic City toll gate area on Hosur Road. Last evening, Friday, 25.5.24, I had to leave by the night bus from Bengaluru and found myself amongst an unusually huge crowd of around three hundred people waiting for their buses at the boarding point. All of us were luggage-laden, waiting at the service road near the toll gate for the buses bound for different destinations. The huge sleeper coach buses arrived generally late by the standard half an hour, and sometimes even by an hour, citing heavy traffic as their excuse for arriving late. One knows that the late arrival is for a different reason—trying to pick up fares on their way, to fill their remaining vacant seats.

The scene at this boarding point is chaotic. There is no provision for shelter against rain which in Bengaluru arrives at short notice. Should it rain, it would mean a hundred drenched citizens boarding AC buses, shivering wet all the way to their destinations. The authorities can do well to provide a rain shelter and some seating arrangements at this point, considering the hundreds of people standing at this boarding point for hours, wretchedly toting their luggage, managing restless kids, looking out for their buses while trying not to get hit by the regular speeding traffic. The citizens of Electronic City deserve better.