Vadodara bus station | |||||
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 Vadodara Bus Station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Vadodara Gujarat India | ||||
| Coordinates | 22°18′49″N73°10′53″E / 22.313531°N 73.181417°E | ||||
| Bus operators | GSRTC | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Parking | available | ||||
| Accessible | available | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 15 February 2014 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2014 | 28,000 – 35,000 per day | ||||
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The Vadodara bus station or Vadodara Central Bus Terminal is the central bus station serving Vadodara city in Gujarat, India. [1]
The bus station was built under a public-private partnership between the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) and realty firm Cube Construction. The building is known as the Ved Transcube Plaza. Built at a cost of ₹114 crore (US$14 million), the five-storey station is spread over 2.4 lakh square feet. The station handles over 800 buses and as many as 28,000 to 35,000 passengers daily. [2] The commercial complex of the station building has 400 retail shops of an average 250 to 350 square feet each, a flea market, a food court with 22 outlets, a seven-screen multiplex run by PVR Cinemas and a 100-room budget hotel. [2] [3]
The design of exterior takes inspiration from the banyan tree which is associated with the name of the city. [1] [4]
It was inaugurated by then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on 15 February 2014. [3]
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