A Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking bus number 1864 (MH-01 AP 0748) faded into the afternoon air at Malwani depot in Mumbai earlier this week, marking the end of an era for BEST’s last full-sized vehicle introduced under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in 2009.

The bus has officially been retired after clocking more than fifteen years of service across the city’s crowded routes. It was not just a bus—it was a chapter in Mumbai’s public transport story.