CHAMARAJANAGAR: Even though there is a night traffic ban on National Highways 67 (linking Ooty) and 766 (connecting Wyanad) every day from 9 pm to 6 am since 2009 via the forest ranges of Bandipur National Park in Chamarajanagar, yet hundreds of passengers have the facility to board buses belonging to KSRTC to help them cross the ranges of Bandipur to reach either Ooty or Kozhikode via Gundlupet and Wyanad from Bengaluru and vice versa.
Sources in KSRTC told Deccan Chronicle on Tuesday that a KSRTC Carona Sleeper bus ferries passengers from Bengaluru Central at 9 pm daily while another Carona Sleeper bus departs from Kozhikode at 10 pm to reach Bengaluru.
These buses pass through Wyanad and Moolehole and Maddur ranges of Bandipur Tiger Reserve before reaching Gundlupet. Another facility for passengers is the Bengaluru-Kozhikode Airavat Club Class bus which departs from Bengaluru at 10. 30 pm and another Airaavat bus which departs for Bengaluru from Kozhikode at the same time.
Similar arrangements have been made for passengers travelling to Ooty from Bengaluru by KSRTC with sources saying that two Airaavat buses leave from Bengaluru to Ooty in a span of five minutes daily. While, one Airaavat bus departs at 10. 15 pm, another leaves at 10.20 pm. From Ooty, Airaavat buses leave for Bengaluru daily at 10.30 pm which travel through Kekkahalla in Bandipur Tiger Reserve and reach Gundlupet before the final destination, Bengaluru.
