Overview
- BEST announced on Saturday that it will run 15 additional buses from the afternoon and evening of Sunday, November 15 to carry devotees to key puja sites such as Juhu Beach, Dadar Chowpatty, Powai and Gorai Creek.
- The agency has also planned six to seven extra return buses for the early morning of Monday, November 16 with specified allocations including three A-203 buses from Borivali and two each on routes 231 and 203 from Santacruz and Andheri.
- Depot-level instructions name specific deployments: Santacruz, Majas, Malvani, Gorai and others will run the extra services on routes 231, 203, 339, A-256 and A-203 and keep normal services on routes serving chowpattys and Juhu Bus Station.
- For crowd control and continuity, BEST will place inspectors and traffic officers near beaches, station a security officer, a constable and two guards at Juhu Beach from noon on Sunday until 8:00 am Monday, and keep a breakdown van at Juhu from 3:00 pm on Sunday.
- Depot managers must monitor operations and submit feedback on passenger numbers, trips, revenue and kilometres to the Planning Department by November 20, and BEST says more buses can be pressed into service if demand rises.