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Loading ...Beating the rush luxuriously
The picture above may look like a reminder to most of the IT guys in Bangalore who travel to their office and back in a similar fashion in their Office busses or cabs or TT’s (Tempo Traveller’s). Most of them prefer to sleep on their way to the office and back, some spend the time with their iPods, books and some like me (for whatever little time I’ve been in an office transport) keep looking at everyone else around.
OK .. Now, on to some details which you probably missed noticing in the picture or which are not visible:
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Do you notice the black leather seats?
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The bus is equipped with wireless internet connection for those who wish to stay connected during the journey
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Front row of seats are reserved for dogs. If the bus is running full, then the dogs are requested to move over to their owner’s laps
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Provision to hang bicycles behind the bus
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The busses run on bio diesel
Interesting eh? Now on to something even more mind boggling:
They run 132 trips every day to some 40 pickup and drop-off locations in more than a dozen cities, crisscrossing six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area and logging some 4,400 miles.
They pick up workers as far away as Concord, 54 miles northeast of the company’s sprawling Mountain View headquarters are known, and Santa Cruz, 38 miles to the south. The system’s routes cover in excess of 230 miles of freeways, more than twice the extent of the region’s BART commuter train system, which has 104 miles of tracks.
So, which company are we talking about that runs these luxurious busses as fringe benefits for its employees?
Google!