Currently, the management and operation unit has completed the work of adjusting the routes of a number of other bus routes to connect conveniently and avoid affecting passenger travel.
Stop ineffective bus routes
Mr. Thai Ho Phuong, Director of the Hanoi Public Transport Management Center, said that the city has just completed a review of the entire bus network in the area.
Five bus routes 5, 10, 14, 18, 44 will stop operating from April 145 due to high subsidies of over 1%. Photo: Ta Hai.
The Center has reviewed and evaluated the suitability of the route network before devising an appropriate adjustment roadmap, minimizing impacts and impacts on contracts signed with service providers. , harmonizing the interests of the State and businesses.
Through practice and inheriting international experience and lessons, Hanoi Department of Transport has proposed groups of indicators to evaluate the bus route network.
Principles for adjusting and evaluating bus routes are carried out based on 5 basic criteria such as: Route overlap coefficient (reflects the connection ability and the ability to attract passengers of the route); Non-straight line coefficient (reflects the quality of line marking work); The ratio of subsidies to costs (reflects the effectiveness of the financial perspective); Average subsidy rate per passenger (reflects the effectiveness of subsidy when compared with output results); Capacity utilization coefficient (reflects the results of transport activities).
From these indicators, treatment plans for routes will be proposed such as: Adjusting route routes; service frequency; vehicle capacity; Combining the above options; Stop ineffective route operations...
The results of reviewing Hanoi's entire route network showed that 71 routes had to adjust their routes and service frequencies and 5 routes had to stop operating. Up to now, after being approved by the Hanoi People's Committee and the Department of Transport, the Public Transport Management Center has announced to stop operating bus routes 10, 14, 18, 44, 145 operated by Hanoi Transport Corporation. Noi, Hanoi Passenger Car Joint Stock Company and Hanoi Electric Vehicle Joint Stock Company operate.
In addition, the Hanoi Department of Transport adjusted the route of 10 routes, adjusted the route combined with adjusting the service frequency of 43 other routes.
Units selling monthly ticket stamps are required to stop accepting registration forms for making cards and selling monthly ticket stamps for routes that stop operating, and guide passengers who want to change tickets to the monthly ticket sales points to exchange.
If the customer continues to need to use a monthly ticket for another route or change to an inter-line monthly ticket, they will have to pay the difference in ticket price. In case the customer does not need to use it, they will receive a refund.
Alternative routes still ensure convenient connections
According to the Traffic Newspaper's research, this is the first time Hanoi has stopped operating bus routes that do not ensure quality.
With the plan to adjust 71 bus routes and stop 5 routes, the Hanoi Department of Transport said that it will save about 11,45 million km of journeys/year, corresponding to a cost savings of about 212,23 billion VND. /year.
According to Mr. Phuong, after stopping operation of the above bus routes, the management and operation unit reviewed the bus routes and network to ensure convenient connection for passengers. For example, bus route 10A stops operating, passengers can use bus route 54 and other routes on the network to make connecting trips along the way such as routes 04, 08(A,B), E05 , E07, E09, 17, 36, 42, 98, 47A…
Bus route number 10B stops operating, passengers can use bus route number 42 and other bus routes on the network to make the trip such as: 17, 98, 100, E05, E07, E09...
At the same time, after bus route number 14 stops operating, passengers can use bus route number 45 and other bus routes on the network to make trips such as: 09A, 28, 31, 58...
When bus route number 18 stops operating, passengers can use other bus routes on the network to make trips such as: 08A, 47B, 25, 28, 32, 41, E08, 142...
After bus route number 44 stops operating, passengers can use other bus routes on the network to make trips such as: 02, 35A, 03A, 19,49, 51, 24, 40, 43, 42,48 ,XNUMX.
Bus route number 145 stops operating, passengers can use other bus routes on the network to make trips such as: 60A, 22A, 50, 60A, 60B, E03, E07, 45, 144...
Dr. Phan Le Binh, a traffic expert, said that reviewing all bus routes and providing comprehensive solutions is the right step to avoid wasting budget resources. The management agency has been careful to come up with solutions, pulling other bus routes onto the same route to have the least impact on people.
Sharing the same opinion, Mr. Nguyen Trong Thong, Chairman of the Hanoi Public Passenger Transport Association, said that the suspension of bus routes has been carefully studied by specialized agencies, in parallel with the arrangement of bus routes. other bus.
