This figure could not be included in the TROFF document. The Secunderabad Railway Station is a very important place for the APSRTC: it is its birthplace. The first city bus service started out from this station as a feeder service in 1932 during the Nizam's reign. 77 years have gone by and the APSRTC still continues to cling to its birthplace: nearly three-fourths or more of its entire fleet of city buses have this place as a terminal or pass through this area. Suburban buses also have their terminal here and farmers from surrounding villages bring in their produce to the nearby Monda Market. Suburban trains also bring in farmers and their produce to the vegetable market every day.
Though the city boasts of three long distance passenger train railway stations [Secunderabad, Nampally and Kacheguda], the most important one is the Secunderabad station. Nearly 100 or more trains from all over the country arrive or depart from this station every day. The arrival and departure of each train is associated with an increased traffic in the roads surrounding the station.
Because of its being central to the operations of long distance trains, city buses and suburban buses, Secunderabad is the most busiest place in the city. Troff does not in any way interfere with the present day movement of pasengers [train or bus] at this place but it rather adds to their comfort levels.
In the figure above are given details of the bus-train interface to be provided at the Boyiguda side of the Secunderabad railway station. All the RTR buses, both red [clockwise] and blue [anticlockwise] as well as the long distance buses [here again both red and blue] are brought close to the Secunderabad railway station. such an interface will result in unimaginable levels of comfort to long distance train commuters arriving or departing from the city, to long distance bus commuters and to intra-city commuters.
Complaints are posted in the newspapers in which train commuters whose trains have arrived in the late night hours or early hours of the morning had to face no small amount of harassment by autorikshaw drivers who demanded exorbitant fares from them.
Troff's bus services being available 24 hours a day will make life easier for all classes of commuters.
Allowing city buses to transport mails and parcels related to trains would greatly help the cause of public bus transportation.
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