Chennai: As the reality of living along with the virus seems to sink in, people are eager to undertake travel immediately to meet their professional, personal and academic requirements.
A majority of responders in a survey (63 per cent ) gave a thumbs up to travel as soon as services start, while 16.8 per cent said they would wait for initial rush to taper, only 14 per cent said they would travel on need basis while the rest said they would wait for 2-3 months or wait for more guidelines from the government.
The respondents about 60 per cent of them also anticipated an increase in travel fare.
AbhiBus.com, a leading online bus ticketing aggregator in India, has conducted the nationwide online bus travel survey to find out whether people are willing to travel immediately after the lock down is completely lifted or are they looking to postpone their journey due to increase in the Covid-19 cases.
Named as “India Bus Travel Survey”, the survey has surprisingly noted that the people are very optimistic and not shying away from travelling immediately once the travel restrictions are lifted.
However, they preferred to have a sanitised environment which enables a safe journey and while respondents prioritised social distancing and cleanness and hygiene as critical requirements, factors like increase in cost of travel fares and on time and reliable service figured later in their list.