The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) will ply an additional 400 to 450 buses from March 28 to 30 to clear heavy rush for the Ugadi festival.
Elaborate arrangements have been made for operating the extra buses. Advance reservation of tickets for the special and scheduled buses of KSRTC can be made at 173 counters in Bangalore, 14 in Mysore, 54 in Mangalore and other 230 computerised reservation counters of KSRTC located at other places in the State, according to a release from KSRTC.
* Special buses will be operated from Bangalore Kempegowda Bus Station to Dharmasthala, Kukke Subramanya, Shimoga, Hassan, Mangalore, Kundapur, Sringeri, Horanadu, Davangere, Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Bijapur, Gokarna, Sirsi, Karwar, Raichur, Gulbarga, Bellary, Koppala, Yadgir, Bidar and Tirupati.
* Special buses from Mysore road bus station will be exclusively operated on Mysore, Hunsur, Piriyapatna, Virajpet, Kushalanagar, Madikeri routes.
* Premier special buses will be operated from Shanthinagar BMTC Bus Stand to Madurai, Kumbakonam, Trichy, Chennai, Coimbatore, Tirupati, Vijaywada, Hyderabad and other places in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
* Special buses will be operated from J.P.Nagar, Jayanagar 4th Block, Jalahalli Cross, Navrang (Rajajinagar), Malleswaram 18th Cross, Vijayanagar, Ganganagar, Banashankari, Yeshwantpur and Kengeri Satellite Town, to Shimoga, Davangere, Tirupati, Mangalore, Kundapur, Sringeri, Horanadu, Kukke Subramanya and Dharmasthala.
* Special buses for passengers who have advance reservation will be operated from Mysore road bus station towards North-West (Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Bijapur, Gokarna, Sirsi, Karwar, Gulbarga, Bellary, Raichur and Bidar. Buses with no advance reservation will be operated from Kempegowda Bus station.
