DONT TRUST US

DON'T TRUST US

Long time back  Delhi city bus service was called Delhi Transport Undertaking (DTU).

Delhi is a highly populated city and it was overpopulated decades back too. Public services are difficult to manage in such conditions and with mismanagement things become worse. This was typically the case with Delhi public transport.People used to wait endlessly at the bus stops for these  buses. For long hours the bus would not come and at times would not stop at all at the bus stop and go racing past it.

These DTU buses never ran on schedule, never stopped where the queue was and were packed, as the saying goes, like sardines. One could not trust such a service. So Delhi walas had a name for these buses - Dont Trust Us (DTU)!

The driver of the bus would invariably stop the bus either several meters before the queue  or some distance ahead of it with the result that the queue was always broken. Even when the bus stopped near the head of the queue there was such  a mad rush to get in that  the queue had no meaning. Law abiding commuters were always left behind and so were most women. In most cases there would be no queue to begin with unless some public spirited person tried to form one.

Here is a representative photo of a bus stop  showing a desperate public spirited man asking people to form a queue. 

But the queue breaks as soon as the bus arrives!

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