misguiding bus passengers guides...

The screechy voice of the Corporation appointed bus passengers’ guides and the bus employees create mess for those who arrive at Moffusil and Palayam bus stands in Kozhikode city. The shrieks of the agents and the employees have reached the extent of threatening the passenger to board a bus.
The passengers’ guides, who have been appointed to help the passenger to find the vehicle that goes to the destination at the earliest, are now thwarting the freedom of the passenger to choose the vehicle they want to go. Similar scenes can also be witnessed in other bus stands including Vatakara, Koyilandi and Perambra.
``This is the bus that will leave first, so get into this one,’’ is a sentence that is used most commonly by the bus agents and employees to attract the commuters. But most of the time the passenger who board that particular bus will have to see more than two buses leaving the stand while their bus still rests in the bus way. Besides public, the buses of Kerala State Road Transport Corporation also fall prey to these agents as they force the passengers to get down of the KSRTC buses.
As the nuisance is more common in long distance buses the agents and employees of buses attract the passengers by offering seats to them. In many a case the passenger who board a bus wanting to get a seat will have to travel in standing as the bus would have left the station before they realise that there was no seat vacant in the bus.