Transport newspaper had an interview with Mr. Nguyen Trong Thong - Deputy General Director of Transerco on the current bus situation.
Mr. Nguyen Trong Thong, Deputy General Director of Hanoi Transport Corporation (Transerco) - the unit in charge of most public passenger transportation by bus in Hanoi said that Transerco did not create any pressure. force on time for driving.
Not only does it discourage fast driving, the Corporation also has regulations on penalizing drivers who return too soon compared to the regulations. Along with that, Transerco also constantly proposed the state management agencies to adjust the time, the route of running the car to the most appropriate.
According to Mr. Thong, it is necessary to be more fair with buses because the rate of causing accidents of buses compared to other vehicles is very small while the frequency of operating vehicles is extremely large. Transerco alone, it has to operate 48 routes a day with more than 10 vehicles / route. On average, Transerco's fleet transports more than 1 million passengers a day.
Mr. Thong also emphasized that according to the investigation, the majority of people in the traffic believe that buses are safer than motorcycles. Moreover, in the current traffic infrastructure conditions, with the number of traffic participation is too large, the traffic is messy, not separated lanes, vehicles mixed and cut each other, the accident occurred, Congestion is also unavoidable.
Opinion of Mr. Nguyen Hoang Hai - Director of Hanoi Urban Transport Management Center: When separating lanes, giving priority to buses
Talking to PVN, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Hai emphasized: We have never had a road system exclusively for buses.
Currently, buses must travel the same way as other vehicles and must handle the road situation just like other vehicles. This has made it very inconvenient to get in and out of the parking lot to pick up passengers of the bus. Along with that is the infrastructure for buses such as waiting houses, stops often occupied. Passengers on buses sometimes have to stand on the road to wait for cars, causing serious safety loss.
In addition, our buses do not meet the standard requirements of a public transport in the city such as low floors, poor support systems and equipment.
A particularly important factor that makes Hai insecure is that we do not have a highly trained driver team. Currently, businesses still train drivers themselves, so the training has not been synchronized and unified in the whole system.
Answering the question about how to make the bus safer, Mr. Hai said that the city is preparing to deploy a wide-spread vehicle lanes in a wide and reasonable way, the authorities need There are bus priority options to facilitate this very important public transport