From next week on, if you work in south Mumbai and miss the last train home, don’t you worry. You will still be able to make it to bed before sunrise, courtesy BEST’s all-night service.Come Wednesday, the BEST plans to revive three all-night routes that it ran until a few years ago. The special services will start after the last trains leave CST and Churchgate, and will run at intervals of an hour each. BEST will also allow commuters to travel by its staff buses to the distant suburbs. There three routes are: No 1 from Shama Prasad Mukherjee Chowk (Museum) to Mahim Bus Depot; No 66 from Ballard Pier to Sion hospital; and, No 124 from Colaba to Worli Village.The fares on the all-night services will be the same as those charged during the day.In addition to the three routes, each night there are also BEST staff buses which ply from every bus depot to the nearest railway stations and the various BEST staff quarters across the city. Regular commuters, including those living in distant suburbs such as Borivali, Mulund and Mankhurd, will henceforth be allowed to travel by these staff buses which will now have conductors to issue tickets.The three proposed routes used to ply at nights less than a decade ago, but were discontinued as they were placing an additional burden on the BEST due to their low occupancy.General Manager O P Gupta of BEST said, “We have studied all the routes and will run them right through the night on a trial basis from next week. After some time we will review the response from commuters, and then decide on launching full-fledged services.” BEST Committee Chairman Arvind Dudhvadkar said, “Besides the three routes which we will start from Wednesday, we will also allow regular commuters to travel by staff buses. We will finalise the proposal once we check out the response.”Dudhvadkar further said, “At the moment, route No 65 operates from Museum to Maheshwari Udyan (King’s Circle) and runs close to several stations on both Western and Central Railway. These include Marine Lines, Charni Road, Mumbai Central, Byculla, Chinckpokli, Lower Parel, Dadar and King’s Circle. We will check the response to the proposed three routes, and if feasible will consider this as an additional route for the all-night service.”Mayor Sunil Prabhu has wholeheartedly backed the proposal, saying that BMC will approve of it at the civic general body meeting. “We recently sent a proposal to the State Government to extend Mumbai’s night life by allowing restaurants and shops to stay open throughout the night. The BEST’s all-night services will help no end in this regard.”