Comments on ScribblinG: redbus.in #fail

@vijesh : well, red owns redbus (pardon the mokkai...

2010-05-27T22:32:45.640+05:30

@vijesh : well, red owns redbus (pardon the mokkai. well, he travels in *any thing*. Don't know the number of times I have nagged him to reserve a train ticket :D

@sankar : city bred? me? that's an insult to a thanjavur thamizhachi :-)

@red I slightly differ. Since the travel guy has s...

2010-05-19T19:48:58.231+05:30

@red I slightly differ. Since the travel guy has sold the ticket directly from his booking office for 450/- Also he claims that he has got only 450/- for the other tickets that are booked by agents.

Also I did not really have the urge to read the review in redbus.in, since one of the last option to travel in train, went in vein.

Btw, surprised that you traveled in redbus! :)

first, in my opinion, its no-way the fault of redb...

2010-05-19T17:37:01.239+05:30

first, in my opinion, its no-way the fault of redbus.in . so, i dont agree with the subject. but still, if anything which can be made better in redbus.in, they can have any representative check/verify what the Travels guys has entered in their site. And, one good thing is, they have an option of feedback/rating against those travels buses on their site.

And if you have tried to read the feedback of this particular Sangitha Travels, i bet, u wont hav got good review. then the only thing, which makes them, to still survive in this travels business is, they open the reservation of ticket very late (very much closer to the travel date), which is the only last resort we have, when we dont hav any other buses to choose, as they get full long before. so, people who want to do all those reservations in mouse-clicks, dont want to roam around and approach travel agents, have no other choice.

and once, i too had this adventurous experience in Sangita Travels bus... the same AC problem, A/C controller knob not working, couldnt turn off the reader light, water leaking, variable push-back, searching for some meaning for the word 'leg-space' in the bus, etc, etc, etc... and on the way back, had to exchange my seat, which i reserved 4 days back, to some north indian couple, who booked it 40 mins back, as i was not there in that seat when they came and checked 40 mins before the start of the bus, though the bus started more than 1 hour delayed, and justified/argued that 'they are saying they cannot sleep sitting in the first seat row', etc etc... it was really an adventurous journey in Sangitha Travels... so, its to blame us, to book in that travels...

@Sankar Agreed, but when I go there, I feel its mu...

2010-05-19T11:18:19.899+05:30

@Sankar Agreed, but when I go there, I feel its much more pleasant. It also has a good breeze, thro out the year.

@Vijesh: In weather updates, I consistently see CB...

2010-05-19T11:16:09.819+05:30

@Vijesh: In weather updates, I consistently see CBE hotter than Chennai. Probably after ulaga-thamizh-maanadu preparation by cutting-trees.

@Sankar Objection! Coimbatore is a mature city, bu...

2010-05-19T11:14:38.758+05:30

@Sankar Objection! Coimbatore is a mature city, but not lavish or flamboyant. Not many cities in TN can beat it in climate. to note, I'm the one who is settled in chennai. :P

@Abirami actually I have traveled many such, so I'm seasoned to it by now.

@Abirami: Oh Okay. However, It must be too tough f...

2010-05-18T21:49:08.226+05:30

@Abirami: Oh Okay. However, It must be too tough for you city-grown-up to be settled in a village like CBE ;-)

@Sankar : Chennai- blr service is good. I have alm...

2010-05-18T19:50:09.358+05:30

@Sankar : Chennai- blr service is good. I have almost always gotten tickets. It was never as desperate as the cbe-blr route.

@Vijesh : my back bone is still screaming insults at me. That was one yuck ride we had, no?

The basic problem is dumb-ass Government policies,...

2010-05-18T12:23:52.737+05:30

The basic problem is dumb-ass Government policies, that are outdated. When KSRTC is allowing tickets to be booked via net, TN still expects people to come to the bus stand to book ticket (and that too before 6:00 PM atleast in BLR)

I wish they legalize private players in transport, so that all these daylight robbery of air-bus will go out of business.

Another problem is, railways are always managed by north-indian ministers and so the number of trains between chennai-blr, coimbatore-blr, coimbatore-chennai are always less (when compared with mumbai-pune etc.) [From what I've heard from many]