Thai Ho Phuong, deputy director of the Hanoi Public Transport Management Centre, said that in the first nine months of this year, Hanoi’s bus passenger number reached 212.7 million, up 25.1 percent on-year. However, the figure is still 40 percent lower than before the Covid-19 pandemic.
A bus stop in Hanoi
The city has seen a surge in bus passengers since the second quarter of this year.
Between January and September, the city opened six new electric bus lines and five normal bus routes connected to the Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line.
By late September, Hanoi was home to 154 bus routes with 4,396 stops.
Hanoi Transport Service Company, which operates 70 bus routes in the city said that the firm was severely affected by the pandemic. It has focused on improving service quality to attract more passengers.
In the first eight months of this year, the company organised nearly 350 training courses for its 6,409 staff.
