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redBus announces rollout of India's first vaccinated bus service
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SME Times News Bureau | 23 Jul, 2021
In a first for the bus transport sector, redBus, India's largest online
bus ticketing platform, announced the launch of vaccinated bus services
across 600+ major routes in the country.
This new arrangement
guarantees that passengers of an intercity bus get to travel with
vaccinated co-passengers and crew. Booking a ticket on this service
requires the travellers to have received at least the first shot of the
Covid-19 vaccine and they must submit proof of the same at the time of
boarding.
Vaccinated Bus is being introduced in collaboration
with private partner bus operators that have a customer rating of more
than four stars out of five on the platform. Presently vaccinated bus
services have begun operating across 600+ routes on redBus, with the
crew and passengers having had at least the first dose of Covid-19
vaccine.
redBus already implements various safety measures under
its 'Safety+' programme, which is a unique certification given to
partner bus operators who meet the highest standards of safety and
sanitisation. These include deep cleaning of buses after each trip,
compulsory masking, hand sanitisation and thermal screening of both
passengers and the crew.
In order to ensure proper execution of
this new system, boarding for passengers who book their tickets on
vaccinated buses will only be allowed once they produce their ID proof
and vaccination certificate at the time of boarding. The travellers will
also be informed of these requirements before the journey through
e-mail and SMS. The partner bus operator staff will physically verify
the vaccination certificates/ID proofs for all adult passengers before
boarding, with the exception of passengers aged below 18. Passengers who
fail to provide the necessary proof will be denied boarding.
redBus
CEO Prakash Sangam stated: "According to a survey that we recently
undertook with our customers, 89 per cent of the respondents said that
they prefer to travel in a bus which had all the bus staff and
co-passengers vaccinated with at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
It is therefore evident that a vaccinated bus rids passengers of their
anxiety to a large extent and restores their confidence to undertake
travel, which they are all so eagerly looking forward to. It is also
extremely encouraging to witness our partner bus operators stepping up
efforts to support us in this undertaking. At the moment, these services
are spread across 600+ routes in the country and we will look at
further scaling this initiative based on the response to it."
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