Lucknow :

The first smart bus shelter in the city is coming up on Ashok Marg. It’s nearing completion and will be opened for public on Saturday. It has been done under the smart city project. It will also be the first smart bus shelter in the country to have an e-toilet with water recycle plant.

The smart shelter will have a host of features and facilities for commuters including display of real-time information about arrival of buses, route details, availability of seats, e-toilets, ATM, water vending unit and mobile chargers.

Equipped with GPS and intelligent traffic management system, the bus shelter will have boards that will display the bus route, digital map and weather forecast along with basic information about arrival of buses.

The bus shelter also has a 24-hour power back up.

Naveen Agarwal, managing director of the firm that will construct these shelters said that 200 smart bus shelters, each costing around Rs 39.84 lakh, will come up in the city.

Smart city project general manager SK Jain told TOI, “The Ashok Marg bus shelter will be opened for public use from Saturday. While all other facilities will start with the inauguration, the electronic information system will be made functional after all the transport is made GPS-enabled. In the first phase, 100 such shelters will be built in the next year.”

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Lucknow News / by Vidita Chandra, TNN / December 19th, 2017