namma mejura

This is an effort to list the colorful city buses plying / recently plied in Madurai. Dinesh and Kavi were nostalgic about the Silver painted city buses which were unique to Madurai two decades back.

Some of them like blue chequered buses were no longer available. The red bus with big yellow stripe in the middle is still around, however it is turning into blue with small white stripe during FC. Now new ordinary buses were blue with white stripes & city expresses in yellow.

City Buses, originally uploaded by Kamala L.

Low floor buses have striking colors and lines. The saffron color buses were 2 years old & the newer ones invariably comes in yellow. Thankfully the automatic doors are still working in almost all buses.

And then there are private mini-buses that were green with a small yellow band in the middle.

Well, it’s been a while. But I’m back to write regularly, and committing myself to write at least twice a week!

The shop owners of central vegetable market was building their own central shopping complex outside the city. It’s been mentioned in this blog in detail before.

Last fortnight there was an announcement by Madurai Corporation to build a Vegetable Market complex near Mattuthavani Bus Stand & inagurated a temporary market near Mattuthavani till the complex is ready. [The Hindu]

Two days back, the shop owners own complex was opened near Vilangudi. Not clear whether this one will be officially recognised. We only hope the vegetable prices does not sky rocket in their tussle.