Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Payyanur: The KSRTC Bus depot at Payyanur has been closed down and all the schedules from this station has been suspended for the continuous third day. Payyanur Depot used to operate a total of 69 buses in 58 schedules. It cancelled all this trips due to the attack on its buses at Payyanur and neighboring areas in connection with the strike against electricity charge hike. A total of 19 buses of the Payyanru depot were stonned down and one bus was burned at Perumba bridge on last saturday. This cancellation of trips badly affected the passengers of the areas like Tabore, Rajagiri, Cheemeni, Puthoor, Pazhayangadi,Josegiri etc where only KSRTC operates. KB Ganesh Kumar, the transport minister informed that the depot will start functioning only after deciding about the losses and its compensations. All the staff of Payyanur depot has been transferred to various other stations which resulted in the complete closing down of Payyanur Bus Depot.
