Runaway Cruisers: TRIP TO MY HOMETOWN BY KALLADA G4

Date: 16-11-2012 (friday)
Trip: Bangalore - Pathanamthitta
Bus: Kallada G4 B9R - KA-01-AA-7724
Boarding: madiwala
Departure: 9.15 PM (09:30 PM)
Arrival: 07:45 AM (9:55 AM)
Seat No: 42
Fare: 1050

I had booked my ticket for 21st and all of sudden on Wednesday night i had to change my schedule to Friday . tickets weren't available in any of the multi's and at last i called up santhej.. thanks to santhej for arranging me a seat in BLR-PTA G4..

On the day of my travel, i reached madiwala friends office at 8.30 and collected my boarding pass.i hurried up for dinner .. after dinner wen checked , my bus has not reached yet. in meantime I had a lot sightseeing . P.K isuzu , abtx AC , srm non stop , SPS to adoor , G4 shift , kallada ( orange and green) and two viji's ( orange(tvm) n blue ( pta) ) .. blue was parked in the pump and orange opposite to it.. there was one viji and srm i-shift parked inside pump..i guess they were not running that day.. waiting and here comes my bus.. the red G4 which used to run til changanashery before.. the bus reached at 9.05 and then parked to the pump at 9.10 .. took time to reverse the bus and park in because of the ongoing traffic..shama (red) was already parked in and ready to depart..boarded the bus.. it was neat and clean. no foul smells at all.. ac was kept in minimal..they started checking tickets and issuing boarding pass.. noticed that even for today's trip the luggage tag was not given ..

all passengers were on board.. the bus occupancy was full. the bus departed at 9.30.. took right at st.johns and reached madiwala market at 9.39..the bus took the elevated flyover at 9.43..movie was put.. but some problem with the player . the dis was not reading.. it was left unattended for a while.. the bus was cruising constantly at 85-90 km/h ..reached electronic city at 9.51.. the toll took 2 mins.. the bus moved further and reached attibele NHAI toll at 10.06. there was no much of queue and the bus left the toll in two minutes.. the driving was sedate . the bus continued cruising at the same speed .. in its 90's. reached ashok leyland unit 1. a lot of lorries filled up on the road and the traffic was crawling.. the bus crossed hosur at 10.19. a lot of honking's were there.. the bus hardly reached three digits.. the max what i got in my gps was 105 km/h.. the kallada orange b9r zoomed past us.. crossed McD/ccD at 10.37 and A2B at 10.44.. little further ahead , there was too much of diversions on road because of expansion.. the bus was slow and was trailing behind kallada..the traffic came to a complete stand still at 10.53.. there was some block.. the cd was not working again .they stopped it and TV was switched off den.. it was at 11 pm. ten minutes later the tv was again switched on and the 2nd disc was put to play.. the movie was ustad hotel.. the bus was still on stop.. not moved an inch. at last at 11.15 the traffic started to move.. it was slow because it was just a single lane. the bus was slow for the next 5 mins.. the traffic was cleared and the bus attained speed.

the bus reached 2nd NHAI toll at 11.30 pm. i guess it was near krishnagiri. it was cleared soon.. no delay. the bus was on its 90's and at times it was going 3 digits.. it was sedate driving.. the bus again reached a toll at 12.15.. there was a 2 mins delay there. the movie was running til 12.25 am. the sad part was there were no much viewers.. majority of the passengers were in the snooze world.. the cleaner did a good job this time.. he switched of the tv as soon as the movie was over.. lol.. i guess the shawl i got was used by a lady.. i found a long hair in it..

the driving was sedate all way.. but the driver was honking so much instead of using the lights.. we reached omallur toll at 12.48 am. passed park plaza hotel selam at 12.53 and selam-ernakulam bypass at 1.05 am.. reached perundurai toll at 2.07 am.. the bus took a left after that..it was tiruppur - palladam -cbe route.. reached tiruppur town at 2.35am. then i went into deep sleep.. i din know anything what happened til palakkad.. the lights were switched on and the cleaner shouted palakkad. it was then i woke up.. the time was 4.15 am..i doubt if there were passengers to get down.. if were there, then it may b one or two.. santhej can u pls check up if there were passengers to palakkad that day.. the bus took the shornur route to tcr..reached thrissur at 5.35 .. dropped down passengers.. took 4 mins..the bus took ollur, thalore route.. reached vytilla at 7 am.. the bus was stopped for ten mins.. passengers were dropped.. there were flower boxes in the luggage.. some 10 boxes were taken out.. the sad part was the empty seats of tcr and ekm was being filled up the driver , picking up extra passengers at vytilla to alleppy.. around 7 passengers boarded . the bus left at 7.10.. reached cherthala at 7.45am , shavakotapalam ( allepy ) at 8.13 am.. regular passengers and extra passengers too were dropped at alleppy.. took alleppy - changanashery road.. reached mankomp at 8.37 am.. three passengers got down.. but again 2 extra passengers were boarded in to chngry.. reached changanashery at 8.53..the bus din go inside town.. good work.. thiruvalla at 9.07.. took left towards kzchy-pta road.. saw chn-tvla srm , already parked there in the ground.. finally i was dropped at pta (aban arcade ) at 9.55 am... i had a talk with driver after tvla.. i asked him about the speed . he said the bus was locked at 100.. the driver also said one reason for late departure was the pick up at kalasipalayam.. just to pick 3 passengers , he had to take the bus til there and returning back to madiwala is another hectic work.. it consumes lot time and delays departure from madiwala too ..