Central Bus Station Thiruvananthapuram 4.18

Central Bus Station , also called Thampanoor Bus Station, is a bus station in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. It is located opposite the Trivandrum Central Railway station at Thampanoor.It has an area of 7.41 acres serving the buses traveling on all routes in Kerala and other inter-state destinations such as Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Chennai, Bangalore etc.It is also the headquarters of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation .HistoryThe work for the new Central Bus Terminal at Thampanoor started by March 2010 and was opened to public on February 3, 2014 by the Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri. Oommen Chandy.OverviewThe 12-storied complex has a floor area of 24,984 sq m is on the southern side of the KSRTC premises facing Ponnara Sreedhar Park. The project is a joint venture of the Kerala Transport Development Finance Corporation (KTDFC) and the KSRTC, being implemented on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) concept. Central Bus Station Thiruvananthapuram (30,573.54 meter square / 3.25 Lakhs S.F) is the third largest Bus station after Kozhikode and Kasargode. Most of the floors inside the terminal are marked for commercial purposes, which include central lobby and parking facilities.Space has been provided for setting up offices and other institutions from the fourth floor.The bus operations within the terminal will be taken care by the front office on the ground floor whereas the four-storied administrative block, set up behind the terminal will cater to the administration of the Central KSRTC Depot.This High-tech terminal complex was constructed by Harrisons Malayalam Limited Engineering Department, a Kerala based construction contracting company.The terminal can handle about 2,500 to 3,400 schedules a day. It caters to about 1240 bus arrivals and 1250 departures daily out of which 45% trips account for long distance buses and 55% for the Moffusil buses (short distance within Thiruvananthapuram district). The Central Bus Station has been divided into four zones.The Arrival Bus Bay zone consists of 5 Platforms and Departure Bus Bay zone with passenger facilities consists of 25 Platforms.The Bus terminal supporting facility zone conssits of space for Idle bus parking, Repair garage, Fuel-filling facility and a Commercial zone which includes shopping complex and convention center.