1 Contest. 3 winners. It’s that time of the year. #FromACityflo

We’re happy to announce yet another edition of our annual photo contest, #FromACityflo. A lot of our customers have been looking forward to it, and we can sense the excitement already looking at the entries that have been pouring in last week. Dawn to Dusk #FromACityflo We invite you…

Monsoon Prep Part 03: Driver readiness

If driving through Mumbai’s peak traffic feels like a task, doing it during monsoons is a different ball game altogether. Rains slashing on the windshield impairs vision, and roads become slippery, sometimes cratered, both of which slow down traffic. The longer drives are physically demanding, and the ensuing anxiety…

Monsoon Prep Part 02: Bus cleanliness & maintenance

In our last blog, we covered how we're planning route movements and schedules for this monsoon. But one might wonder: what about the buses themselves? Over 12,000+ customers step in and out of a Cityflo twice every day, and with Mumbai’s torrential rains, there are days when our…

Preparing for the monsoons: Part 1

Mumbaikars have a love-hate relationship with the rains. It provides relief from the heat, fills up the city’s water reserves, and comes with a certain romance that you’ll find only in Mumbai. But all this gets buried under the sound of the rain when it comes time to…

Hello from the new Cityflo

In the coming week, when we come to pick you up, we are going to look a little different. Since day one, our main focus has been on consistently improving your commute experience. While that continues to be our first priority, we are now refining our visual identity—one that…

Smartphones, mattresses and Cityflo

" (The iPhone is) enormously underpriced. ” …said Warren Buffet in a 2018 interview. Now before you share your thoughts, hear us out. We believe we're onto something here. When we first read that quote, it was (honestly) a little surprising. We’ve always viewed the iPhone as an expensive product and…

#FromACityflo - The city through your eyes

On average, Cityflo customers spend about 2 hours on our buses every day. While this time is usually spent napping, reading, or watching a show, we’d like you to take advantage of our large windows, look out and capture moments from the city that may sometimes go unnoticed on…

How we maintain our staging environment with rich data

Learn more about how we use automation to prepare our staging environment and improve the confidence of our engineers in the products they build. Before diving deep into the orchestration, it is important to understand why the right data is important for us in the staging environment. Our test cases…