Surge in bus travel to the capital

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Surge in bus travel to the capital

By The Nation

 

 

More than 120,000 people arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday riding buses operated by the government-owned Transport Co Ltd, the firm’s president said on Wednesday.

Jirasak Yaowatsakul said an additional 120,000 to 150,000 people were expected to arrive in Bangkok riding the company’s buses on Wednesday.

 

He said Tuesday’s figures showed about 30,000 more passengers than on an average normal day.

 

Most passengers on Tuesday were coming from northern and northeaster provinces.

 

Jirsak said the Transport Co Ltd had increased the number of buses to around 9,000 trips per day with the capacity to transport 180,000 passengers.

 

Distributed geographically, 5,000 are allocated for northern and northeastern routes, 1,200 for eastern routes and 3,000 for southern routes with the capacity to transport 100,000 passengers, 20,000 passengers and 60,000 passengers respectively.

 

Those figures do not include travel by buses operated by private firms.

 

Jirasak said the state firm had also put officials on standby at all bus stations to take care of passengers. Free snacks and drinking water are also being provided.

 

He added that the state firm was also providing free shuttle buses from bus terminals in Bangkok to the nearest Skytrain stations.

 

Jirasak said private firms were also providing an additional 300 free buses from provinces such as Kanchanaburi and Nakhon Sawan to Bangkok on Wednesday and Thursday.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30330092

 

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Oh no more figures to add to TAT's tourist magic numbers