Starting Monday, December 12, one will be able to ride comfortably on the BEST bus on the Thane–Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) route as the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking will start its Premium Bus service on this route. The bus will not allow standing passengers at all and tickets on the app will be issued only as per the seating capacity of the bus.

“It will be more or less like you book movie tickets, available as per seating. Once the capacity is full, the booking will move to the next bus. A bus carries anywhere between 50 and 90 passengers. If these many self-driven car users shift to BEST buses, we are reducing road occupancy which is a major cause of traffic,” an official said.