WARANGAL RTC IS SO GOATED YOU GUYS!
So, This year i took a resolution that I will use public transportation atleast once a month just for the love of it. (All my everywhere feed is how beautiful public transit systems are in Japan and Europe). After that, it kinda changed how i look at this city. Growing up in warangal, it was always private transportation everywhere. A school teacher told us in our class that, buses are the best mode of transportation when i was in 6th grade (2015-16). The govt just launched the JnNurm buses back. Then, i told my mom and took my first ever bus ride from fatimanagar to hanumakonda chowrasta. It was so cool to see those lights digital dislpay boards, comfortable seats. They phased em out eventually, so did my interest in public transport. We went back to using our own vehicles.
Then, since 2 years, ive been fascinated about metro rail, urban transit and oublic transportation again. (Due to my massive content consumption on yt). In that madness i ended up drawing a metro map for warangal, which is on my profile if you scroll down enough.
This year, I thought, instead of fantasizing about things so far away, why not use the public transport that is literally infront of me. So i took the resolution that i did.
Here is my experience now,
WARANGAL RTC IS GOATED, if you have all day to yourself. If you need to go somewhere on time. You are fucked. Sometimes, three buses go on the same route right next to each other, and then for 45mins you wont see a bus on your route. They are that irregular.
Now to the good part,
I reached home quicker than while driving (if i catch the bus immediately after reaching busstop - which is most of the times).
I reach home more relaxed instead of getting stressed over the assholes driving in warangal do.
Most of all, its cheap and stressfree.
Again, there have been a few instances where i felt wierd, because.. route 3 is always overcrowded till.
peddammagadda. So.. that made me feel nauseous once. But its almost empty with barely 10 passengers beyond KU X Road.
So yea. I got a lot of judgement from my friends for using buses instead of booking a rapido bike. But i use the RTC buses occasionally more than once.
Here is a quick idea for someone who wants to build something im warangal. - you can develop a bus tracking / predictability system where you track all buses and at each busstand a sma screen will show how long it will take the next bus to arrive. (Its not something new, this tech already exists elsewhere but, you can build and pilot it with warangal buses and later scale it at hyd level) .
Idk if it works or not. Govts themselves have developed such infrastructure elsewhere but RTC works for a lot kf different reasons. Try it out if you find it reasonable.
Ik there will be a lot of friction fom RTCs end, but once such citizen infrastructure exists, we can slowly decongest our traffic.
Hope you use the buses too 👉👈 if youre someone who already uses the buses.. lmk, i have something planned.