Commuters suffer due to two-day CNG stations' closure

The two-day closure of compressed natural gas (CNG) stations has compounded the problems of commuters, as they face shortage of public transport vehicles due to the closure of CNG stations. As CNG stations remained closed for two days, public transport remained thin and taxis, cabs and rickshaws demand at their will giving the excuse of running their vehicles on petrol.
It is observed that more than 50 percent public transport vehicles remained off the road due to non-availability of CNG. The majority of transporters could not get their CNG cylinders filled even on the days CNG station operate due to low gas pressure and they remained off the road due to unaffordable petrol prices. Due to negligence and lack of appropriate policies of the government to meet the rising demand, now CNG has become a headache for the common man.
The closure is not only affecting specific people, who travel by buses but is also striking the bread and butter of those people whose livelihood is directly or indirectly linked with CNG. Reports have been received that many pick-and-drop service providers serving office going people in general and ladies in particular have expressed their inability to ply vehicles on the day CNG stations remain closed.
Passengers, who were waiting for buses at an stop, said they face many problems on the days when CNG stations are closed as buses are hardly found on roads. If by chance a bus comes, it's overloaded with passengers and travelling in such a situation means putting life at risk, they said and added that initially authorities used to close CNG pumps on alternative days but now they have started closure two days in stretch, which has further aggravated the problems.
However, few buses, minim busses, taxi and rickshaw remain operative on the day of CNG stations closure use LPG as alternative fuel to run the vehicle. The consumption of LPG is likely to go up manyfold if duration of CNG stations closure in a week increase. Majority of vehicles running on gas are no more able to operate on petrol or diesel due to non use of oil for operating vehicles since long. Corroborators of vehicles running on gas only since lone become defective and they can not be switch on petrol of diesel at a go. The corroborators either need to be replaced with new one or repaired.