Pune: Rasta Peth resident Sudhakar Pakhle’s long wait in the rain at a bus stop near Golibar Maidan on Saturday was cut short, thanks to the local transport utility’s Apli PMPML app . Pakhle had been waiting for a bus to Tilak Road when he remembered Pune Mahanahar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited’s (PMPML) new mobile app. “I checked it by entering the bus number to find that the bus was far away and running behind schedule.
I took an autorickshaw. If not for the app, I would have kept on waiting for the bus for long,” Pakhle said. In just a little over a week since its launch, around 1 lakh people have downloaded the app, a senior PMPML official said.
The app has evoked a mixed response from commuters. “There are some features, but the app is not user-friendly. The journey planner is confusing, and it shows the bus number, which most people are not aware of.
PMPML needs to work on it to simplify things. However, the provision of buying tickets and passes online is commendable,” PMP Pravasi Manch senior member and commuter Sanjay Shitole told TOI. Yashwant Gadge, an NIBM Road resident, said, “Most people who take buses don’t know English.
Moreover, many don’t know how to use smartphones. I think the app will cater to only a limited number of people.” The app should be in Marathi too, he said.
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