Kolkata_Tram_631 --- A beautiful frame !!! A Burn Standard tram of Park Circus depot was waiting at Howrah Bridge terminal for Police approval to starting its return journey through Route # 20 via Sealdah. Photo taken by Roy on 3rd February 2014.
A tram has to wait atleast for 30 mins in Howrah Bridge terminal for Police permission for a return journey regardless of pick hours or non-pick hours. Repeated honkings and reminders/requests from the tram driver/conductor falls into deaf ears of traffic seargents on-duty. When finally another tram arrives at the same spot then all police personnel hurried on to the drivers, clears the traffic for a window of 30 seconds and compell both the trams to start together which causes loss of revenue & anti-tram WB Govt. can easily project that trams commutes without passengers. This game continues everyday in which two Govt. agencies are fighting against each other to rule out trams from Kolkata streets.