With the reduction in the city bus services, Aboobacker Saddiq, a resident of Katipalla in Surathkal, had a hard time on Friday reaching his place of work at a mall in the central business district of Mangaluru.
He had to walk for nearly a kilometre on Katipalla Main Road and hitch a ride on a motorcycle for another 500 metres after which he got into a KSRTC bus bound to State Bank in the city.
“My manager called me around 12 noon and asked me to report to duty. I somehow managed to reach the workplace today,” he told The Hindu and added that he was worried about returning home, which is in a communally sensitive area, at night.
