Did you know that one ticket can provide unlimited rides on most of Chennai’s MTC buses? If you did not, you are not alone. The Travel-As-You-Please scheme is popular, but more mechanisms like common ticketing need to be introduced to incentivise the use of public transport in Tamil Nadu’s capital city.
If one needs to get an idea of what a common ticketing system across different modes can do to public transportation, the travel-as-you-please Rs.30 ticket scheme of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) might provide some answers.
