Dao Viet Long, deputy director of the Hanoi Department of Transport, said theHanoi Public Transport Management Centre was assigned to develop a plan forbuses to return at 100 percent capacity from February 8, the same time studentswill go back to school after the Lunar New Year holiday.
Earlier, the Hanoi Transport Corporation (Transerco), proposed the citygovernment allow buses to operate at full capacity to serve people travellingby bus more conveniently.
From October 14, 2021, bus routes throughout the capital were only allowed tocarry half their designed capacity and no more than 20 passengers at a time dueto pandemic prevention and control.
Waiting for a bus took about 15-60 minutes.
Transerco said the number of passengers travelling by bus was increasing again.
Bus service units confirmed that they were ready to deploy vehicles as well aspandemic preventive measures to meet travel demand./.
VNA