Kanpur Lucknow Roadways Service
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The Kanpur Lucknow Roadways Service is a frequent bus service operated by Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation UPSRTC) in the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state of Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

, connecting its legislative capital Lucknow
Lucknow
Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh in India. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of Lucknow District and Lucknow Division....

 with the industrial capital at Kanpur. UPSRTC
Upsrtc
Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation is a state transport company based in Uttar Pradesh, India operating intrastate and interstate bus services. Known as Uttar Pradesh Rajya Sarak Parivahan Nigam in Hindi, it is fondly called as 'Roadways' in State.-History:Passenger road transport...

 provides a wide variety of bus services including general buses, Pawan Gold buses, as well as air conditioned services using buses from Sheetal, Shatabdi and Volvo. The company also offers a sleeper bus service.

Lucknow and Kanpur lie 82 kilometres (51 mi) apart by road and 72 kilometres (44.7 mi) by train, making it competitive for UPSRTC to provide fast and frequent service through a of variety of buses. The Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway
Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway
Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway System is a commuter rail service operated by Northern Railways, North Central Railway and North Eastern Railway to connect administrative capital Lucknow with the economic and industrial capital Kanpur of the state Uttar Pradesh. These services are mostly run...

 provides hourly MEMU
MEMU
MEMU is a commuter rail system in India operated by the Indian Railway.The system uses Mainline Electrical Multiple Units operating on Alternating Current drawn from over-head cables through the catenary system....

 commuter trains and an EMU
Electric multiple unit
An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number of the carriages...

electric service at a cost of 11 Rs per person with a journey time of around 100 minutes. UPSRTC offers a competitive frequent bus service between the two cities running every 5 to 10 minutes. The outward and return fares for the under two hour journey differ due to the route taken.
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