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PASSENGERS' COMPLAINS * Vietnam - Commuters say no to buses in Vietnam metro
Rundown buses and faciliites as well as bad service is seeing public transportation deteriorate in Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City,Saigon,Vietnam -The Saigon Tiep Thi/Vietnam Society's Posterous -November 4, 2010: ... Several dozen bus routes are operating inefficienty because of decreasing number of passengers, said Phung Dang Hai, director general of HCMC Transport Co-operative, which operates one-third of the local buses... In fact, in the first nine months of this year, the co-operative has experienced a 10 percent decline in the number of passengers over last year, Hai said ... The decrease is considerable, although subsidies were raised to VND700 billion (US$35.9 million) from VND600 billion ($30.8 million) last year, Hai said... The Saigon Tiep Thi reports that the staff's poor attitude towards passengers, the lack of safety, broken air-conditioning systems and other degraded facilities are discouraging people from opting to take a bus... Reckless driving, including not slowing down while driving over potholes, and the disregard for passenger comfort was blatant, it reports... (Photo from static.dzmind)Labels: passengers complains
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