3 months after being officially put into operation, Yen Nghia bus station, Hanoi is still in a state of "gloomy waiting for customers". More significantly, the car, though, is the cause of the most modern bus station in the country.
Bus station hundred billion does not attract customers
Just completed and put into use earlier this year, Yen Nghia bus station is considered as the largest and most modern bus station nationwide. The wharf was built with a total investment of up to VND 80 billion and an area of nearly 7 hectares.
This bus station is about 4km away from the old Ha Dong bus station towards Hoa Binh, adjacent to Highway 6 and Ring Road 4. According to the calculations from here, the coaches can radiate in all directions of the city, convenient for travel. of the people and reduce traffic congestion in the inner city. In the berth, there are berths and static berths, of which the berths are 14,195sqm, the berths are 15,288sq.m, the operator system is 4050m2 and the parking yard is 13,800sqm, combined with auxiliary works such as the canteen, gas station, service.
Large investment for Yen Nghia, the authorities do not hide the ambition to make this place become the main bus station of the Capital, especially after Hanoi officially expanded its boundaries. However, sadly, as mentioned above, 3 months after being officially put into operation, Yen Nghia bus station is still empty.
Being present at Yen Nghia bus station on the morning of March 31, different from our image of a crowded, busy modern bus station, the bus station has the scale to meet 2000 turns of cars with thousands of passengers through every day. This is only sporadic, sparse few passengers. Waiting house is empty but the yard is also empty.
Far from being afraid
This is the judgment of Mr. Dinh Xuan Truong - Head of Yen Nghia bus station in the absence of the station. Mr. Truong said: In addition to the reason for the new terminal, unfamiliar guests, another reason why customers do not come to the station is that the terminal is located too far from the city center. Then again because of the small number of passengers, many transport units do not want to put the car into operation here.
Also according to Mr. Truong, the station is located on the exclusive road is QL6, while the ring road 4 has not been found so the range of the vehicle is narrow. The inconvenient travel roads do not attract transportation businesses to the wharf. It is known that at present, each day at the wharf, only about 400 vehicles operate with 115 routes to the provinces and districts mainly to the northern, northwestern and northeastern provinces.
Old station - parachute bus "busiest", new station - empty bus
Contrary to the gloomy situation at the "best" bus station in the country, in the area of Ha Dong bus station, the bustling and welcoming activities of both coaches and cars even though many people mistakenly believe this bus station is still active.
According to the observation of the newspaper of the Transport newspaper, many coaches still blatantly welcomed and received passengers right in front of the wharf. In less than 15 minutes, we witnessed many vehicles of transportation enterprises Cao Phong (BKS 28H - 3423), Binh An (BKS 28H - 4184; 28H - 4167) pick up passengers while the Functional forces such as traffic police, traffic inspectors are completely absent. Please be emphasized that the area of these vehicles is very close to the Hanoi Department of Transport (less than 500m).
It should be said that, there is no need to enter the station but the car is still full of passengers and the car is still empty, of course, for economic reasons, businesses will choose to catch passengers along the way.
While people still have not created a sense for them to get into the bus station, it is necessary for the drastic handling of the competent forces with the illegal operation of coaches so that the “billion-dong” bus stations like Yen Nghia can escape. scene waiting for guests.