Spehro Pefhany wrote in message news:...
> On 29 Aug 2003 19:27:07 -0700, the renowned musicboy333@yahoo.com
> (bobber) wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the info, you obviously know a lot more than me about long
> >distance bus travel in India. By the way the pictures of Pune-Bombay
> >road are super, good job! I am not blaming Indians for having buses
> >that still do not provide rest room facilities, but instead the
> >jurassic regulators who are in charge of supervising such things.
> >However, govt. babus come from lower middle, middle-middle class
> >background and still believe that Indians do not "need" restrooms in
> >buses.
>
> If the maintenance is not going to be absolutely top-notch, I'd rather
> the low cost modes of transport eschew on-board facilities. Nothing is
> worse than spending a long trip downwind of a latrine piled high with
> the excrement and pooled in the urine of your fellow travelers- and
> the worse it gets, the more the temptation, for males at least, to
> take aim from a great distance, thus compounding the problem.
Well, all I can say that there are lavatories in Indian railways and
they are not fancy but certainly functional and do not always overflow
with anything, if similar facility is available on buses that should
be good enough.
>
> Best regards,
> Spehro Pefhany |