Commuters travelling between Mumbai and Pune will soon have the option to give the rusty old ST buses a skip, as the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC), which caters to 70 lakh passengers every day, will be adding 25 air-conditioned Volvo buses to its fleet. These services are scheduled to begin shortly and the buses will ply exclusively along the Mumbai-Pune routes.

MSRTC operates Volvo bus services under brand name ‘Shivneri’ between Dadar-Pune-Dadar. File pic