Neeta Travels should be BANNED

 Just because you have a big fleet of buses and some kind of monopoly, does not mean you own the road. Meet Neeta travels, the biggest loafers, scoundrels and the worst private bus service I have ever experienced.

Having worked in Pune for the last 5 odd months and have made several trips to and fro from Pune to Mumbai, and having sat numerous times in this stupid bus service, I have gathered enough hatred for them that I feel like removing my chapals and throwing it on them whenever I see their buses. The reasons for the discontent follow.

Consider a trip from Pune to Mumbai. You go to Wakad flyover bus stop, where there is Neeta stop and from where majority IT crowd takes the bus back home on Fridays. People who have already experience their idiosyncrasy are aware that booking ticket in advance is of no use as the busses are always late by at least half an hour.

When a bus finally comes, it will wait at the bus stop for at least another half an hour and sometimes even 45mins till they find people to fill in. I can tell you having experienced all this; it really really causes a lot of frustration as it is just horrible waste of time.

When the bus finally starts, in half hour time, their stop comes at Lonavala, where again they take half an hour break. The bus stop is also good for nothing with highly priced bad food and again waste of time where people just wait for their bus to resume.

Somehow people bear all this as they look forward to go home and any complaints is dealt with a rude remark by them asking to take back our money and get down in the middle of the highway.

Mumbai to Pune is the same. All though they don’t wait for long times at the bus stop. A typical route form Borivali involves complete Mumbai Darshan. Not to mention their busses are all very old, uncomfortable and their management is clearly reflected from the above. They take atleast 3 and a half to 4 hours  on the Mumbai-Pune route compared to 2 and a half to 3 by others such as the MSRTC or the Purple/Prasanna.

Having tolerated their nonsense for initial month, I always opted to ignore Neeta for the to and from journey, once I even took the non AC red ST dabba and it took same time to reach home!