A BUS STAND

A bus stand is a place where service buses stop and start from. After a fixed time a good number of up and down buses touch at a bus stand at different hours of the day and night. In cities there are sheds for passengers at a bus stand. Passengers wait for sometime to get on a bus. In some bus stands there are counters for ticket. Passengers stand in a line for buying tickets. Sometimes there is exchange of hot words (9152 *RTa if anybody breaks the line. A bus stand is a busy place. One bus comes and the another starts for. When a bus comes or starts for, passengers become busy in procuring (আসন সংগ্রহ করার জন্য ব্যস্ত) a seat. They push one another to get into it. Ladies find it too difficult to get on a bus. The drivers and conductors are also very busy. They try to get as many passengers as they can. Generally (1988) a bus is always jampacked up and it is more jampacked during ottice nours. There are road-side tea-stalls, small shops, hawkers selling betel leaf and cigarette at a bus stand. Magazines and seasonal fruits are also sold here. It is a useful place indeed.