new delhi delhi tiptoed into a semblance of normalcy on monday with many shops opening for the first time in many days and public transport returning with its carrying capacity greatly reduced the usual hustlebustle was however missing with only a few customers turning up at the shops and a handful of commuters at bus stops posing no great challenge to maintaining of social distancinga toi team which travelled across the city found only 2535 outlets open at shopping hubs like connaught place khan market south extension sarojini nagar karol bagh and laxmi nagar there was stocktaking and sanitising of the premises but business remained sluggish no one was expecting footfalls to pick up in the first two weeks the oddeven plan for opening shops proved to be a dampener with many traders saying it would cause inconvenience to customersthe dtc and cluster buses carrying only 20 passengers at a time encountered no crowding with a majority of delhiites staying home the marshals who were supposed to enforce order were missing but were not missed because of the limited number of passengers even for those few commuters trips got delayed because of the curb on the number of passengers the appbased cabs scored over autos with the latter finding few commuters willing to travel alone two passengers are allowed in the cabs