The advance sale of bus tickets for the upcoming Eid-ul Fitr started in the capital Wednesday.
With Eid-ul-Fitr approaching, people are now crowding different inter-district bus counters selling advance tickets in the capital on Wednesday.
Selling of advance tickets for journeys between June 9 and June 15 started at Gabtoli terminal, Kalyanpur, Asad Gate, Shymoli, Kalabagan, and Rajarbagh.
People are mostly buying tickets for journeys between June 13 and June 14 as the three-day Eid vacation begins on June 15.
Since Wednesday morning, people rushed to the Gabtoli bus terminal and other counters along Mirpur road and formed queues to avail their tickets.
They were seen waiting for their lucky turn at the counters of Shyamoli, Hanif, Nabil, TR Travels and SR Travels companies early in the morning to buy tickets mainly for northern and south-western districts.
Shymoli Paribahan managing director and a senior association leader Ramesh Chandra Ghosh said that this year the gathering of ticket seekers were not huge.
‘Many tickets are being sold via internet and it is a working day,’ he said.
He said the rush would increase at the weekends and added that selling of advance tickets would continue.
Passengers usually get on long-route buses for south-eastern, eastern and middle region routes at Saidabad and Mohakhali bus terminals without advance tickets.
Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) is yet to fix the date for selling advance tickets.