Footboard travel menace: 24K buses have closing door facility, TN tells HC

THE Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court closed the suo motu proceedings with regard to the menace of footboard travel in buses, after the state government informed the court that 24,747 buses have been provided with closing door facility in both public and contract carriers, and the remaining 14,102 buses would be provided with the facility in a phased manner within two years.

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A division bench of Justices J Nisha Banu and S Srimathy closed the suo motu proceedings initiated in 2013. The court had then asked the state government as to why suitable action was not taken towards implementing the single bench order of 2012, with regard to preventing footboard travel in buses. Citing non-compliance, the court took suo motu cognisance in 2013, and sought statistics of the buses plying with and without closing door facility.