Tamil Nadu government has introduced 50 new small buses in the city:

The chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms. Jayalalitha has introduced 50 new small buses in Chennai city. To improve the roads connectivity is the main aim of introducing these buses in the city. The small buses will help the people to travel conveniently from interior area to the nearest bus stop and nearest railway stations. The buses will ply on 20 new routes covering the southern and western areas in the city and suburbs. While the first set of small buses which was introduced in October 2013 rolled out focused mainly on southern suburbs. There are few buses in north Chennai also.The new Routes would cover areas like Adyar, Besant Nagar, Guindy, Korarttur, Mandeveli, Pallavaram, Thiruvanmiyur, Tambaram, Villivakkam, Valasarvakkam. The total expenditure in the process of introducing the small buses came around Rs, 7.60 Crores.The other routes in the city are from thiruvanmiyur to Madhya Kailash, Adyar signal to Madeveli, vadapalini to Loyola college and from Ashok Pillar to Valsarvakkam. The number of buses allotted to each of the new route ranges from one to three. MTC (Metropolitian Transport Corporation) officials are happy about the success of the fifty small busses rolled out in 2013. The MTC officials earn approximately Rs, 5000/= on one route.“The small buses introduced by the Tamil Nadu government have helped so many people in the state who travels by buses everyday to office, schools and colleges. The small buses have become an easy mode of transport now a day as it is compact and gets its way in any area” Said a passenger who travels from small buses every day.Apart from these small buses, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu Ms. Jayalalithaa has also flagged 185 new buses. Out of this 51 buses are for Villupuram transport corporation, 51 buses are for Kumbakonam district, 33 buses for Madurai, 17 for Coimbatore district, 16 buses for Salem Transport Corporation, 9 buses are for Tirunelveli and 8 buses are for the MTC (Metropolitan Transport Corporation).  And recently she has also rolled out 109 buses repaired at a cost of Rs, 8.2 Crore.There were 7 new bus depots inaugurated by the chief minister of Tamil Nadu recently. The 7 bus depots are inaugurated in Chennai, Villupuram, Kumbakonam and in Madurai. It includes 1 depot at Besant Nagar and 1 at Adambakkam in Chennai and the other depots are at Neyveli and Orillai in Villipuram District and at Alankudi and Aravukurichi in Kumbakonam and at Sivagangai in Madurai district respectively.  It costs a total of Rs, 5.57 Crore. This will ensure that the buses will be maintained and run in a better process.“The new small buses are very useful, it has made our life easy as we were very disturbed with the increasing traffics, apart from these buses the introduction of new bus depots also made us easy to get our buses on time in a definite place of bus depots. Now we get into bus depots with willable distance” said a college student who travels by bus to college every day.Some places had only terminus before, but now many bus depots have been introduced where people can find more buses operating. The number of bus depots has gone up to 27 depots in the city. The localities will have better and maintained buses with more frequency and connectivity. After the introduction of depots, commuters will not have to wait for buses from nearby depots as there are many depots inaugurated in the city.“These small buses have brought a drastic change in day to day travelling, we go through the same routes everyday but with small buses we reach our destination before 20 minutes approx as these small buses occupy small space. we also earn good amount through small buses” said Mr. Satish, MTC official.
Pallavaram, Chrompet Velachery, Medhavaram, Ambattur, Porur, were the regions in the city which got the facilities of travelling in small buses when they were first introduced in October 2013. But now it has reached many new places in the city. The introduction of small buses has showed a good response by the public. And still it is appreciated by the public as it has helped a lot of people to travel from interior areas to reach the nearest bus stops and other spots.