This edit space has often concentrated on Mumbai’s iconic big, red bus. We have highlighted how the old reliable, gasping for breath a few years earlier needed to be saved and revived. Readers pitched in with angst at the prospect of the city’s symbol being wiped off the roads thanks to dipping crowds and financial woes.

This space has spoken about how it is the bus that is transformed into the lifeline of Mumbai during the monsoon. The edit has waxed eloquent about buses becoming numero uno intra city commute option during lockdown last year, before local trains started. Now, with restrictions in place once again, the BEST bus is back in focus in the pandemic. The vehicle has provided citizens with stellar service throughout.