Shanghai Urban Transport Management Agency yesterday issued notice outage bus lines, nine bus routes will be suspended from trading on the 13th of this month, opened just two years of "tourist bus one way a" positive match. Learned that a "tourist bus one way" exit repeat the lines is mainly due to too many scarce passenger traffic leading to heavy losses.
A "tourist bus one way" is the only one in Puxi sightseeing routes, pierce Xujiahui, Yuyuan Garden, south along the Bund and other scenic spots. In January 2008, a "tourist bus one way," the official opening of 10 double-decker open-top sightseeing car Sheung operation became a scenic spot along the street. However, the "tourist bus one way" from the opening of the early days of the embarrassment suffered a rare passenger traffic, at least when less than 100 passengers who bicycle day.
According to people familiar with the transit industry briefing, tour bus was originally targeted for the provision of urban tourism services to visitors, due to a lack of knowledge of degrees, the operating interval is too long and other factors, very few tourists travel. A "tourist bus one way" also hopes to carry local passengers to travel daily to solve the problem of insufficient passenger flow, but only with its Huaihai Road toward the line to repeat as nearly 10, tourist bus fares of 3 yuan higher than other bus lines, but also prohibitive for local passengers.
Double-decker open-top sightseeing car worth 1.5 million yuan per day, close to 2,000 yuan and the costs necessary, while the lowest revenue day cycling only 200 yuan, more holidays, when passenger traffic is only 800 yuan, a serious make ends meet. Operational side also has changed its name and the line departments to submit the relevant application for fare adjustment, but ultimately did not succeed. Transportation Port Authority in the city known to the public in January of this year "in 2010 on new buses, adjusting the line plan (members of the public consultation on the draft)", the "tourist bus one way" had to be withdrawn in line among the reasons for the withdrawal of "Optimization line network, double-tracked to reduce Huaihai Road. " A "tourist bus one way" suspended, the 10 double-decker open-top vehicles will be put into the operation of other bus lines.
A "tourist bus one way" of the low-spirited curtain call, not just an ordinary bus line adjustment event, which raises a problem: the increasingly developed in the subway today, whether it is necessary Shanghai sightseeing bus?
Tourism experts say, tourists can take a sightseeing bus tour of the city landscape, visit the streetscape streetscape, these functions are the MTR can not be replaced. Developed cities in the travel abroad, despite the subway extending in all directions, but the tour buses are still being tourists. A "tourist bus one way" The reason why less than passenger flow, rather than directly related to operating mode. This tour route is simply a few spots in series, there is no perfect guide service, and no marketing and publicity for the tourists, it is no essential difference between regular bus lines. Therefore, the "tourist bus a way" does not explain the failure of tourist buses in Shanghai, there is no market.
Experts believe that Shanghai as a tourist city, without the tourist buses, tourists will experience the existence of defects. Shanghai to build a world-famous tourist city, the Expo will also meet during the 70 million domestic and international tourists, transport and tourism sectors should work together as soon as possible to learn successful experience at home and abroad to create a reasonable win-win model, guide and nurture the actual adaptation Shanghai Sightseeing Bus market.
