North is extensively populated and they highly depend on railways since ages..
I remember my friends from Bihar , who would express such disappointment over not getting their desired rail ticket 😅
Being from Karnataka n almost exclusively dependent on buses till recently, that was a surprise for me..
For example, I'm in Odisha now, there are 500-600 govt osrtc buses as against...
more... 17000 odd ksrtc ones! That's excluding all the countless private operators n neighbouring state rtc buses!