Roundtable for retaining old bus stand
The Hindu
The existing old bus stand should be continued even after the tentatively scheduled inauguration of the new bus station on March 1 to utilise the decades-old facility as the "city and rural bus station", opined speakers at a roundtable held here on Tuesday.
Participants representing a cross section of denizens of the city demanded that the old bus stand be retained to protect the livelihoods of scores of street vendors, fruit sellers and other small-time businessmen of the areas surrounding the decades old bus station.
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