While I was mourning the Bingol bus that I missed by 10 minutes inside the Diyarbakir district bus station, I was beginning to think that I could have a problem at any moment with the children who came to me and shouted for cold water.. One of the negative traits I complain about the most is that I can’t tolerate even the slightest movement when I’m nervous.. I am going to Bingöl upon the invitation I received for the 2nd Karer Culture Festival.
The people of the region call the vehicles carrying passengers between Bingöl and Diyarbakır as “half a bus”.. If you ask what is half a bus; The midibus we know!
This line is in the hands of a monopoly, with different companies engaged in transportation coming together and determining a common price and plan.. When this is the case, the monopolistic mentality has closed its ears to all kinds of complaints and has used the need of the people in transportation very well.
While the distance between Diyarbakır and Bingöl is 15 TL, those going to Genç over the same line pay 12 TL.
120 KM=3 HOURS!
After we take the city bus from Diyarbakır district bus station, we take the half bus to Bingöl from the “artificial station” on the side of one of Diyarbakır’s main streets.
Our journey, which started with a problem such as getting two tickets for the same seat, continues with difficulty because of the driver who wanders around Diyarbakir for 45 minutes and tries to fill as many passengers as he can, even though there is no place to sit.
The journey becomes unbearable when problems such as the heat and the lack of air conditioning in the vehicle are added.
After the Silvan junction, this vehicle takes the 120 km highway between Diyarbakır and Bingöl in exactly 3 hours.
Is the 120 km road covered in 3 hours?
The first thing they say is squint. I had laughed and. But the road is so bad! I couldn’t understand why there is such a highway between our two precious cities, Diyarbakır and Bingöl.. Indeed, transportation is one of the biggest problems of the region.. The highway, which is one-way and one-way, travels dangerously on the mountain slopes from time to time.. The highway, where two vehicles pass side by side with difficulty, is never towed together with the heat.
We take a break in the middle of the road with the announcement of the driver.. Everyone is getting something to cool off. I feel like people looking for water in the middle of the desert. Fortunately, there is an ice cream fridge and I find a way to cool off.
YOU DISTRICT
After the break, we hit the roads… After a short nap, Bingöl I open my eyes in the youth district of. Genç is one of the two districts where a railway passes within the provincial borders of Bingöl.
It welcomes us with a beautiful view.. The route of the Murat River brought the district to life.
The person sitting next to me says that he is from Bingöl and engages in conversation at the last steps of the journey.. He says that he has a lot of difficulties because there is no airport in Bingöl and he has to use Elazig, Muş or Diyarbakir airports to reach his hometown.. It is really sad that the people of Bingöl need airports in the neighboring 3 cities.. In our country, where civil aviation continues to develop to such a degree, Bingöl needs to be brought to the airport urgently.
We are entering the city with the Bingöl sign soon.. The entrance to the city looks like a military barracks. The military unit, located at the entrance of the Diyarbakır Bingöl highway to Bingöl, creates a cold impression when entering the city. there is room. The most important of these are airports, bus stations and train stations.. Because people who come to a city for the first time reach the cities through these points.. There is no airport in Bingöl, there is no train station, there is a bus station.
Bingöl Bus Station, which demands a thousand witnesses to call it the bus station, is in a deplorable state!
The prisons whose buildings are abandoned, with rust flowing from the metal covered roof. a gray and somewhat rusty building resembling a tree without a tree around it.. Even the secluded structure of the abandoned Sinop Prison can be said to be magnificent and well-kept from this building.. With the misty weather, Bingöl Bus Station can be a very useful structure for those who want to shoot a horror movie.. I suggest that the Bingöl Municipality or the people of Bingöl find a solution to this bus station business immediately.. How do they tolerate the existence of such an ugly structure in the city they live in?
Before going to Karer Culture Festival, we take a short city tour with Alican Bayram, who welcomed me.. We go to a restaurant to eat in a hurry to fill our stomachs.. Our aim is not to be late for the festival.
We hit the road together with the Kanal 12 team, who took responsibility for the television broadcast of the festival.
