KSRTC faces flak for building ill-conceived bus terminals
The Hindu
Agency in process of relocating Ernakulam bus stand to Karikkamuri
With massive bus terminal complexes of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) ending up defeating their very purpose, and becoming a perennial strain on the exchequer, the latest being the fiasco about the twin-tower bus terminal in Kozhikode, the demand is rife that the State Government be doubly cautious while constructing new bus terminals.
Especially so since the KSRTC is in the process of relocating its bus stand in Ernakulam to adjacent Karikkamuri and what was conceived as a ₹2-crore modern garage-cum- administrative office and ticketing office of the agency on the land abutting Karikkamuri had to be abandoned in 2015, after it developed gaping cracks and fell into disuse even before it was commissioned. As per a tentative plan readied in 2020, the bus terminal ought to be relocated to Karikkamuri and the shoddily-maintained buildings at the existing stand demolished, to pave the way for a multi-storied commercial structure.