The Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai) runs a mixed fleet of regular and deluxe buses up to distances of 50km from the city of Chennai. Since February 2007, the corporation has been augmenting and replacing its aged fleet with new buses every month.

Types of buses

The seats of a blue line bus

The majority of the buses in the fleet are aged and poorly maintained. These buses usually sport a green livery and have the cheapest fare starting at Rs2.

Most of the new buses that have been inducted are deluxe semi low floored buses with automatic doors. The buses feature comfortable plastic moulded upholstered seating, improved legroom, brightly lit interiors and better ventilation. The buses are also BS III emission standard compliant. The fare for the deluxe buses start at Rs5 and can go up to a maximum of Rs15 for a 40km journey. The deluxe buses were initially introduced as blue line, yellow line, orange line and whitle line services. But this was later classified as just deluxe services[1][2]

As of September 17, 10 air conditioned volvo buses have also been added to the fleet[3], running on 6 different routes. The fares for these buses start from Rs15 up to a maximum of Rs33.

List of important routes

References

• Source:MTCbus.org